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... 2006.A cross-linguistic comparison of address pronoun use in four European languages: Intralingual and interlingualdimensions. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting ofthe Australian Linguistic Society, ... 2008. Mining and mod-eling relations between formal and informal Chinesephrases from web corpora. In Proceedings of the 2008Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural LanguageProcessing, pages ... for Computational Linguistics“I Thou Thee, Thou Traitor”:Predicting Formal vs. Informal Address inEnglish LiteratureManaal FaruquiComputer Science and EngineeringIndian Institute of TechnologyKharagpur,...