Javanese Honorifics (Unggah-Ungguh v1.0)

The Javanese language, spoken by over 98 million people, features a distinctive honorific system known as Unggah-Ungguh Basa. We present UNGGAH-UNGGUH, a carefully curated dataset designed to encapsulate the nuances of Unggah-Ungguh Basa, the Javanese speech etiquette framework that dictates the choice of words and phrases based on social hierarchy and context.

• Project Page: https://javanesehonorifics.github.io/
• Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.20864
• Repository: https://github.com/JavaneseHonorifics
• Venue: ACL 2025 Main Conference

Citation

@article{farhansyah2025language,
  title={Do Language Models Understand Honorific Systems in Javanese?},
  author={Farhansyah, Mohammad Rifqi and Darmawan, Iwan and Kusumawardhana, Adryan and Winata, Genta Indra and Aji, Alham Fikri and Wijaya, Derry Tanti},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.20864},
  year={2025}
}