Burmese Politeness Classifier — v2

Group: AttentionIsAllUNeed — NLP Final Project

Classifies the politeness level of Burmese utterances using fine-tuned XLM-RoBERTa. Tone labels are grounded in Appraisal Theory (Martin & White, 2005).

Stage Input Test Macro F1
Stage 1 Utterance only 0.701
Stage 2 + context + instruction 0.758
Stage 3 + oracle register/power/tone 0.799
Stage 4 + predicted register/power/tone 0.702
Model stage
Register
Power relation
Tone (Appraisal Theory)