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Despite substantial research efforts evaluating how well large language models~(LLMs) handle global cultural diversity, the mechanisms behind their cultural knowledge acquisition, particularly in multilingual settings, remain unclear. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Chen Zhang , Zhiyuan Liao , Yansong Feng

We propose a nonparallel data-driven emotional speech conversion method. It enables the transfer of emotion-related characteristics of a speech signal while preserving the speaker's identity and linguistic content. Most existing approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Jian Gao , Deep Chakraborty , Hamidou Tembine , Olaitan Olaleye

Recent advancements in language representation learning primarily emphasize language modeling for deriving meaningful representations, often neglecting style-specific considerations. This study addresses this gap by creating generic,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Phil Ostheimer , Marius Kloft , Sophie Fellenz

To preserve anonymity and obfuscate their identity on online platforms users may morph their text and portray themselves as a different gender or demographic. Similarly, a chatbot may need to customize its communication style to improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Karan Dabas , Nishtha Madan , Vijay Arya , Sameep Mehta , Gautam Singh , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Style transfer TTS has shown impressive performance in recent years. However, style control is often restricted to systems built on expressive speech recordings with discrete style categories. In practical situations, users may be…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Guanghou Liu , Yongmao Zhang , Yi Lei , Yunlin Chen , Rui Wang , Zhifei Li , Lei Xie

While different neural models often exhibit latent spaces that are alike when exposed to semantically related data, this intrinsic similarity is not always immediately discernible. Towards a better understanding of this phenomenon, our work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Valentino Maiorca , Luca Moschella , Antonio Norelli , Marco Fumero , Francesco Locatello , Emanuele Rodolà

We present a novel approach to the problem of text style transfer. Unlike previous approaches requiring style-labeled training data, our method makes use of readily-available unlabeled text by relying on the implicit connection in style…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Parker Riley , Noah Constant , Mandy Guo , Girish Kumar , David Uthus , Zarana Parekh

Style-transfer is a process of migrating a style from a given image to the content of another, synthesizing a new image which is an artistic mixture of the two. Recent work on this problem adopting Convolutional Neural-networks (CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Michael Elad , Peyman Milanfar

We consider the task of text attribute transfer: transforming a sentence to alter a specific attribute (e.g., sentiment) while preserving its attribute-independent content (e.g., changing "screen is just the right size" to "screen is too…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Juncen Li , Robin Jia , He He , Percy Liang

Numerous recent techniques for text style transfer characterize their approaches as variants of reinforcement learning and preference optimization. In this work, we consider the relationship between these approaches and a class of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Shuai Liu , Jonathan May

Style transfer aims to transfer arbitrary visual styles to content images. We explore algorithms adapted from two papers that try to solve the problem of style transfer while generalizing on unseen styles or compromised visual quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Somshubra Majumdar , Amlaan Bhoi , Ganesh Jagadeesan

Voice conversion (VC) techniques aim to modify speaker identity of an utterance while preserving the underlying linguistic information. Most VC approaches ignore modeling of the speaking style (e.g. emotion and emphasis), which may contain…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-20 Songxiang Liu , Yuewen Cao , Shiyin Kang , Na Hu , Xunying Liu , Dan Su , Dong Yu , Helen Meng

In this work, we define a new style transfer task: perspective shift, which reframes a dialogue from informal first person to a formal third person rephrasing of the text. This task requires challenging coreference resolution, emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Amanda Bertsch , Graham Neubig , Matthew R. Gormley

Textual deception constitutes a major problem for online security. Many studies have argued that deceptiveness leaves traces in writing style, which could be detected using text classification techniques. By conducting an extensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Tommi Gröndahl , N. Asokan

A growing number of state-of-the-art transfer learning methods employ language models pretrained on large generic corpora. In this paper we present a conceptually simple and effective transfer learning approach that addresses the problem of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Alexandra Chronopoulou , Christos Baziotis , Alexandros Potamianos

Arbitrary style transfer is the task of synthesis of an image that has never been seen before, using two given images: content image and style image. The content image forms the structure, the basic geometric lines and shapes of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 S. A. Berezin , V. M. Volkova

We propose Masker, an unsupervised text-editing method for style transfer. To tackle cases when no parallel source-target pairs are available, we train masked language models (MLMs) for both the source and the target domain. Then we find…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Eric Malmi , Aliaksei Severyn , Sascha Rothe

Recent feed-forward neural methods of arbitrary image style transfer mainly utilized encoded feature map upto its second-order statistics, i.e., linearly transformed the encoded feature map of a content image to have the same mean and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Jeong-Sik Lee , Hyun-Chul Choi

Lexical substitution (LS) aims at finding appropriate substitutes for a target word in a sentence. Recently, LS methods based on pretrained language models have made remarkable progress, generating potential substitutes for a target word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Jipeng Qiang , Kang Liu , Yun Li , Yunhao Yuan , Yi Zhu

Controllable generative sequence models with the capability to extract and replicate the style of specific examples enable many applications, including narrating audiobooks in different voices, auto-completing and auto-correcting written…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Jen-Hao Rick Chang , Ashish Shrivastava , Hema Swetha Koppula , Xiaoshuai Zhang , Oncel Tuzel