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Modern NLP defines the task of style transfer as modifying the style of a given sentence without appreciably changing its semantics, which implies that the outputs of style transfer systems should be paraphrases of their inputs. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Kalpesh Krishna , John Wieting , Mohit Iyyer

Text style transfer is an important task in natural language generation, which aims to control certain attributes in the generated text, such as politeness, emotion, humor, and many others. It has a long history in the field of natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Di Jin , Zhijing Jin , Zhiting Hu , Olga Vechtomova , Rada Mihalcea

Style transfer is an important problem in natural language processing (NLP). However, the progress in language style transfer is lagged behind other domains, such as computer vision, mainly because of the lack of parallel data and principle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Zhenxin Fu , Xiaoye Tan , Nanyun Peng , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

Text style transfer (TST) is the task of transforming a text to reflect a particular style while preserving its original content. Evaluating TST outputs is a multidimensional challenge, requiring the assessment of style transfer accuracy,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Sourabrata Mukherjee , Atul Kr. Ojha , John P. McCrae , Ondrej Dusek

The difficulty of textual style transfer lies in the lack of parallel corpora. Numerous advances have been proposed for the unsupervised generation. However, significant problems remain with the auto-evaluation of style transfer tasks.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Richard Yuanzhe Pang

Transfer learning, where a model is first pre-trained on a data-rich task before being fine-tuned on a downstream task, has emerged as a powerful technique in natural language processing (NLP). The effectiveness of transfer learning has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Colin Raffel , Noam Shazeer , Adam Roberts , Katherine Lee , Sharan Narang , Michael Matena , Yanqi Zhou , Wei Li , Peter J. Liu

Text style transfer is a hot issue in recent natural language processing,which mainly studies the text to adapt to different specific situations, audiences and purposes by making some changes. The style of the text usually includes many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Xiangyang Li , Guo Pu , Keyu Ming , Pu Li , Jie Wang , Yuxuan Wang

This paper focuses on style transfer on the basis of non-parallel text. This is an instance of a broad family of problems including machine translation, decipherment, and sentiment modification. The key challenge is to separate the content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Tianxiao Shen , Tao Lei , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

The stylistic properties of text have intrigued computational linguistics researchers in recent years. Specifically, researchers have investigated the Text Style Transfer (TST) task, which aims to change the stylistic properties of the text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Zhiqiang Hu , Roy Ka-Wei Lee , Charu C. Aggarwal , Aston Zhang

Research in the area of style transfer for text is currently bottlenecked by a lack of standard evaluation practices. This paper aims to alleviate this issue by experimentally identifying best practices with a Yelp sentiment dataset. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Remi Mir , Bjarke Felbo , Nick Obradovich , Iyad Rahwan

Text style transfer aims to paraphrase a sentence in one style into another style while preserving content. Due to lack of parallel training data, state-of-art methods are unsupervised and rely on large datasets that share content.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Xiwen Chen , Kenny Q. Zhu

Style is an integral component of a sentence indicated by the choice of words a person makes. Different people have different ways of expressing themselves, however, they adjust their speaking and writing style to a social context, an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Martina Toshevska , Sonja Gievska

These days different platforms such as social media provide their clients from different backgrounds and languages the possibility to connect and exchange information. It is not surprising anymore to see comments from different languages in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Amir Reza Jafari , Behnam Heidary , Reza Farahbakhsh , Mostafa Salehi , Mahdi Jalili

An ongoing debate in the NLG community concerns the best way to evaluate systems, with human evaluation often being considered the most reliable method, compared to corpus-based metrics. However, tasks involving subtle textual differences,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Lorenzo De Mattei , Michele Cafagna , Huiyuan Lai , Felice Dell'Orletta , Malvina Nissim , Albert Gatt

Text style transfer involves rewriting the content of a source sentence in a target style. Despite there being a number of style tasks with available data, there has been limited systematic discussion of how text style datasets relate to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Stephanie Schoch , Wanyu Du , Yangfeng Ji

Generating natural language requires conveying content in an appropriate style. We explore two related tasks on generating text of varying formality: monolingual formality transfer and formality-sensitive machine translation. We propose to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Xing Niu , Sudha Rao , Marine Carpuat

Language style transferring rephrases text with specific stylistic attributes while preserving the original attribute-independent content. One main challenge in learning a style transfer system is a lack of parallel data where the source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Zhirui Zhang , Shuo Ren , Shujie Liu , Jianyong Wang , Peng Chen , Mu Li , Ming Zhou , Enhong Chen

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

Evaluating Text Style Transfer (TST) is a complex task due to its multifaceted nature. The quality of the generated text is measured based on challenging factors, such as style transfer accuracy, content preservation, and overall fluency.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Phil Ostheimer , Mayank Nagda , Marius Kloft , Sophie Fellenz

Text-style transfer aims to convert text given in one domain into another by paraphrasing the sentence or substituting the keywords without altering the content. By necessity, state-of-the-art methods have evolved to accommodate nonparallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Xing Han , Jessica Lundin
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