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Style transfer is the task of rephrasing the text to contain specific stylistic properties without changing the intent or affect within the context. This paper introduces a new method for automatic style transfer. We first learn a latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Shrimai Prabhumoye , Yulia Tsvetkov , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Alan W Black

When translating "The secretary asked for details." to a language with grammatical gender, it might be necessary to determine the gender of the subject "secretary". If the sentence does not contain the necessary information, it is not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Artūrs Stafanovičs , Toms Bergmanis , Mārcis Pinnis

Every person speaks or writes their own flavor of their native language, influenced by a number of factors: the content they tend to talk about, their gender, their social status, or their geographical origin. When attempting to perform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Paul Michel , Graham Neubig

When generating text from probabilistic models, the chosen decoding strategy has a profound effect on the resulting text. Yet the properties elicited by various decoding strategies do not always transfer across natural language generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Gian Wiher , Clara Meister , Ryan Cotterell

Large language models (LLMs) have grown more powerful in language generation, producing fluent text and even imitating personal style. Yet, this ability also heightens the risk of identity impersonation. To the best of our knowledge, no…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Lang Gao , Xuhui Li , Chenxi Wang , Mingzhe Li , Wei Liu , Zirui Song , Jinghui Zhang , Rui Yan , Preslav Nakov , Xiuying Chen

As the text generation capabilities of large language models become increasingly prominent, recent studies have focused on controlling particular aspects of the generated text to make it more personalized. However, most research on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Bashar Alhafni , Vivek Kulkarni , Dhruv Kumar , Vipul Raheja

Sensitive attributes are legally protected characteristics that should not be used to discriminate. Careful steps have been taken to minimize the risk of human bias regarding these fields, such as race and age. Large language models (LLMs)…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Anay Agarwalla , Simeon Sayer

This work presents an empirical approach to quantifying the loss of lexical richness in Machine Translation (MT) systems compared to Human Translation (HT). Our experiments show how current MT systems indeed fail to render the lexical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Eva Vanmassenhove , Dimitar Shterionov , Andy Way

This chapter examines the role of Machine Translation in perpetuating gender bias, highlighting the challenges posed by cross-linguistic settings and statistical dependencies. A comprehensive overview of relevant existing work related to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Eva Vanmassenhove

Gender bias in machine translation (MT) is recognized as an issue that can harm people and society. And yet, advancements in the field rarely involve people, the final MT users, or inform how they might be impacted by biased technologies.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Beatrice Savoldi , Sara Papi , Matteo Negri , Ana Guerberof , Luisa Bentivogli

The representations in large language models contain multiple types of gender information. We focus on two types of such signals in English texts: factual gender information, which is a grammatical or semantic property, and gender bias,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Tomasz Limisiewicz , David Mareček

Machine-translated text plays a crucial role in the communication of people using different languages. However, adversaries can use such text for malicious purposes such as plagiarism and fake review. The existing methods detected a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Hoang-Quoc Nguyen-Son , Tran Phuong Thao , Seira Hidano , Shinsaku Kiyomoto

Unlike text, speech conveys information about the speaker, such as gender, through acoustic cues like pitch. This gives rise to modality-specific bias concerns. For example, in speech translation (ST), when translating from languages with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Lina Conti , Dennis Fucci , Marco Gaido , Matteo Negri , Guillaume Wisniewski , Luisa Bentivogli

Rhetorical devices are difficult to translate, but they are crucial to the translation of literary documents. We investigate the use of multilingual embedding spaces to characterize the preservation of intertextuality, one common rhetorical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Hope McGovern , Hale Sirin , Tom Lippincott

Generic generation and manipulation of text is challenging and has limited success compared to recent deep generative modeling in visual domain. This paper aims at generating plausible natural language sentences, whose attributes are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Zhiting Hu , Zichao Yang , Xiaodan Liang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Eric P. Xing

The predictive uncertainty of machine translation (MT) models is typically used as a quality estimation proxy. In this work, we posit that apart from confidently translating when a single correct translation exists, models should also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Ieva Raminta Staliūnaitė , Julius Cheng , Andreas Vlachos

While machine translation (MT) systems have seen significant improvements, it is still common for translations to reflect societal biases, such as gender bias. Decoder-only Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated potential in MT,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Eduardo Sánchez , Pierre Andrews , Pontus Stenetorp , Mikel Artetxe , Marta R. Costa-jussà

Machine learning methods are widely used by researchers to predict psychological characteristics from digital records. To find out whether automatic personality estimates retain the properties of the original traits, we reviewed 220 recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Pavel Novikov , Larisa Mararitsa , Victor Nozdrachev

Preservation of domain knowledge from the source to target is crucial in any translation workflow. It is common in the translation industry to receive highly specialized projects, where there is hardly any parallel in-domain data. In such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Yasmin Moslem , Rejwanul Haque , John D. Kelleher , Andy Way

Recent studies in the field of Machine Translation (MT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) have shown that existing models amplify biases observed in the training data. The amplification of biases in language technology has mainly been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Eva Vanmassenhove , Dimitar Shterionov , Matthew Gwilliam