  Aided by technology, people are increasingly able to communicate across
geographical, cultural, and language barriers. This ability also results in new
challenges, as interlocutors need to adapt their communication approaches to
increasingly diverse circumstances. In this work, we take the first steps
towards automatically assisting people in adjusting their language to a
specific communication circumstance.
  As a case study, we focus on facilitating the accurate transmission of
pragmatic intentions and introduce a methodology for suggesting paraphrases
that achieve the intended level of politeness under a given communication
circumstance. We demonstrate the feasibility of this approach by evaluating our
method in two realistic communication scenarios and show that it can reduce the
potential for misalignment between the speaker's intentions and the listener's
perceptions in both cases.
