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pavlick-formality-scores

domain stringclasses 4 values	avg_score float64 -3 3	sentence stringlengths 1 666
news	-0.6	Tang was employed at private-equity firm Friedman Fleischer & Lowe.
news	1	San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's withdrawal from the governor's race followed a meeting with top advisers where he was told that, unless he raised $5 million quickly and appeared to be viable, some of the state's biggest unions would throw their support behind Attorney General Jerry Brown.
answers	-2.8	lol nothing worrying about that.
news	0	She told Price she wanted to join the Police Explorers, a Boy Scouts group that lets boys and girls learn law enforcement with local police.
news	1.8	The prime minister is keen to use the autumn pre-budget statement to announce a new "fiscal stimulus", with billions of pounds of extra money for housing, infrastructure projects and training.
blog	1	Those competencies include mastering fundamental legal skills, support of the firm's culture, demonstration of leadership and business skills, and understanding and effectively managing client needs.
news	0.8	His platform contains plans to fund drainage projects.
answers	-1.8	"It's a start."
news	0.6	"She is not asking for anything over the top, just to be able to find her daughter and let her know she loves her."
news	0.8	Justice Dinakaran had maintained that he had not acquired an inch of land since his appointment as a judge of HC and even called the collector's report motivated.
news	0.8	Kirk has given few speeches, limited his press releases to a few nuts-and-bolts issues, and shunned almost all requests for interviews.
news	0	"You never know. Miracles happen," she said.
news	0.8	Some evidence indicates they have spent at least some of the past 14 years in Mexico, a country that has shown itself as a haven for hiding American kids.
news	0.4	Martina Metzler peers at the piles of paper strips spread across four desks in her office.
news	1.4	The shares, which traded at more than $61 each in February 2007, have declined 84 percent this year.
answers	-2.75	constently... I work at a Radio Station.
answers	-1.2	he's being too overprotetive and annoying.
email	2.2	The $30 million lost in Governor Bush's budget request 02-03 was slated for consumers on the wait list.
email	0	Don't sell your role short---teachers like you matter in a world where today's Cecilia story goes like this: "Mom, Miss Summas upped and decided she'd add 10 points to everybody's test grade since most of the class did so poorly on it.
answers	0.6	The Sony Cybershots are my favorite.
blog	-1	I know I'm gonna end up (going to court).
answers	1	HISTORY OF STYLES Ancient World.
email	0.6	Its allmost like there is more at stake here than what we can see in the natural, and more of a spiritual conatation.
blog	0.6	"Our combat related trophies are in there to help people learn advanced tactics. People might not know about Steel Fist [finishing off a foe with one punch] or shield takedowns until they go in and read the trophy list."
email	1.2	I have tried everything possible to attract business.
answers	-1.2	Never heard that one before.
blog	-2	"Yup."
answers	-2	well it depends on that girl.
answers	0.4	What do you think you should do?
news	0.4	This in a district in which Democrats have an 18-point advantage over Republicans in registered voters.
email	-1.25	The little girl is doing so well!
answers	-0.8	Order an electronic pizza by e - mail.
answers	1.2	That's how we pass our traits to the next generation: through DNA
news	1.2	"Rates are very low and it wants to get up to a more normal level as quickly as possible. It's better to announce a big hike now than wait until rates are higher and then jack rates up."
answers	0	Maybe it will be of some help!
news	0.4	"Nato operations have destroyed a lot of equipment belonging to poor fishermen... they illegally transfer the fishermen to their own prisons and prisons of other [foreign] countries."
answers	1.8	Wedding rituals differ in different regions and communities in India.
news	0.4	Talks were going nowhere last week, prompting Clinton to get on the phone to both Micheletti and Zelaya to insist in what was described as blunt language that they close the gap preventing an agreement.
blog	-0.8	Help us, Olympia Snowe, you're our only hope!
news	-0.8	It came off like a generational anthem:
news	1	The Maoists also killed 31 police officers from other nearby outposts in attacks in February and May.
news	0.2	"There is no more bitter song than the nonrecognition of elections," she said, "and that was enough to really worry us."
blog	-1.4	Related searches for [taco dog costume], [dog shark costume] and [banana costume] (so cute!) all rank high.
news	2	With police officers dying in large numbers and Maoists carrying out bolder attacks, the debate around the insurgency has sharpened in India's intellectual salons and on the opinion pages and talk shows.
answers	0.4	Nope, you have to fix your excessive moisture problem.
news	0.6	"Oiled birds need to get onshore because they lose their insulation."
answers	-0.2	Best advice is to "never dip your Quill in the company ink."
news	1.8	Evan Harris, another Liberal Democrat member of the science and technology select committee, said: "The political sacking of a distinguished scientist, who is the chair of an independent scientific advisory committee, for the 'crime' of having different views than the secretary of state, is an enormous blow to the credibility of the government's approach to scientific evidence."
answers	-0.2	There is no real difference.
blog	1.2	Studnitz has since learned that an unspecified error in the FBI's National Criminal Information Center database was the cause for the SSA's initial determination that she was "unsuitable.
news	0.4	It ... is used as a pretext ... that prevents the re-establishment of negotiations.
blog	-0.2	"There was a tester we had who came in and was constantly describing Drake as going into 'beast mode,'" said Minkoff, a designer on Uncharted 2.
email	-0.25	My 13-year - old daughter remained in a semi - catatonic state until saw her father again.
answers	0	They usually have help like that.
blog	0.4	"There were big arguments over here about how to handle that," Minkoff said.
email	0	They're not having much success with limited resurces.
answers	-2	until now:) This is the story of Rindercella and her sugly isters.
news	1.4	Arreola noticed that the streets were suspiciously quiet, no vehicle traffic or kids playing.
answers	-2.2	HE LEFT THE YEAR I LEFT SO ITS ALL GOOD!
email	0.2	I still would like to see Tim appointed to that post.
email	1.75	Keep up the good work and if we may be of any assistance to you please let us know.
answers	-2.4	i can't.
answers	0.6	Somewhere along the line, things went really wrong in your home.
answers	1.2	Foreman studies her eyes, noticing yellow in the sclera.
news	1.4	"Basically, he was told what needed to be done and that it was up to him to do it," said one person who was there.
blog	-0.8	One is sad and one is kinda funny/effective.
blog	-1.2	I replied, "Oh, I know."
answers	1.8	Mitosis is the even division of DNA into two daughter cells.
email	0.6	Sally, please make sure that Phil is on our guest list.
news	0.8	The country is facing lot of threats from within and outside and foreign forces were indulged in large scale religious conversion in the country with an aim to finish India's strength of embracing all faiths of the world, he said.
answers	-2.8	i am but i have mates who don't take muckers and still love trance
answers	-1.6	Stale McDonald's French fries.
email	0.25	Support our sponsors with your purchase by clicking here.
answers	-0.6	Watch out for the coaster car though.
answers	-1.6	Was I talking?
news	1.4	However, later that afternoon, at a news conference dealing with the spill, Newsom gave a hint of what was to come when asked whether he was going to be in San Francisco for the weekend.
answers	0	Source: CIA Fact Book
answers	-0.6	Far Away is my favorite song from him.
answers	-1.6	the northern exposure cd series of theirs are my personal favorites.
news	0.2	The first two bodies were found Thursday night when police went to Sowell's home to arrest him on charges of felonious assault and rape.
answers	-2.6	the feeling is like... like hevan!!!!!!
answers	-2.2	that it's obvious
email	1.6	I was pleased to see of your appointment to co - chair the NGA Education Committee.
answers	-1.4	Yoga just seems like its just breathing exercises for pregnant women!
answers	-1.4	, sit in the (empty) bathtub and work with them.
news	1.2	Indeed only two have had their sex determined, both of them being women.
answers	-0.4	I like the first one a lot more.
news	0.2	The Collegium's decision to put Justice Dinakaran's name on hold till the inquiry is completed will help scotch the feeling that the apex court responded inadequately to serious allegations against a HC Chief Justice.
blog	0.4	Fox News' Colby aggressively pushes "so-called death panels" smear
news	1.8	Mr. Ramesh said 70 percent of India's iron ore lay in states infiltrated by Maoists; production in this area is stalled at 16 million tons a year even though the area has the potential to produce 100 million tons.
blog	-0.4	The missing part of the puzzle is what made media conglomerates such juggernauts in the past.
answers	-3	take a fork and stick it at da ends.
news	1.8	But, our correspondent says, the hour-long speech contained no clue to the answer of the biggest question dominating the Egyptian political scene - who will succeed Mr Mubarak in office?
news	-0.4	But the latest and greatest clue didn't come from police, prosecutors or investigators, but a hairdresser.
answers	-2.2	no!if you wana chat about it then leave me a cmment http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MID=367137231&MemberId=2224798592
answers	0	That was so exciting and so overrated at the same time.
answers	0.8	Why do we have all those painful feelings?
answers	0	This war is an example.
answers	1.8	Therefore it contains words like Tarrarrattat that are considered "nonce words".
blog	1.8	19The 327-foot-tall Ares I-X test rocket moves slowly to launch pad 39B from the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009.

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This dataset contains sentence-level formality annotations used in the 2016 TACL paper "An Empirical Analysis of Formality in Online Communication" (Pavlick and Tetreault, 2016). It includes sentences from four genres (news, blogs, email, and QA forums), all annotated by humans on Amazon Mechanical Turk. The news and blog data was collected by Shibamouli Lahiri, and we are redistributing it here for the convenience of other researchers. We collected the email and answers data ourselves, using a similar annotation setup to Shibamouli.

In the original dataset, answers and email were tokenized. In this version, Oleksiy Syvokon detokenized them with moses-detokenizer and a bunch of additional regexps.

If you use this data in your work, please cite BOTH of the below papers:

@article{PavlickAndTetreault-2016:TACL,
  author =  {Ellie Pavlick and Joel Tetreault},
  title =   {An Empirical Analysis of Formality in Online Communication},
  journal = {Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
  year =    {2016},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}
}

@article{Lahiri-2015:arXiv,
  title={{SQUINKY! A} Corpus of Sentence-level Formality, Informativeness, and Implicature},
  author={Lahiri, Shibamouli},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.02306},
  year={2015}
}

The annotated data files and number of lines in each are as follows:

4977 answers -- Annotated sentences from a random sample of posts from the Yahoo! Answers forums: https://answers.yahoo.com/
1821 blog -- Annotated sentences from the top 100 blogs listed on http://technorati.com/ on October 31, 2009.
1701 email -- Annotated sentences from a random sample of emails from the Jeb Bush email archive: http://americanbridgepac.org/jeb-bushs-gubernatorial-email-archive/
2775 news -- Annotated sentences from the "breaking", "recent", and "local" news sections of the following 20 news sites: CNN, CBS News, ABC News, Reuters, BBC News Online, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian (U.K.), Voice of America, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Times Online (U.K.), news.com.au, Xinhua, The Times of India, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Daily Mail, and Bloomberg L.P.

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Each record contains the following fields:

avg_score: the mean formality rating, which ranges from -3 to 3 where lower scores indicate less formal sentences
sentence

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