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Back-translation based approaches have recently lead to significant progress in unsupervised sequence-to-sequence tasks such as machine translation or style transfer. In this work, we extend the paradigm to the problem of learning a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Yacine Jernite

Translated texts exhibit systematic linguistic differences compared to original texts in the same language, and these differences are referred to as translationese. Translationese has effects on various cross-lingual natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Rricha Jalota , Koel Dutta Chowdhury , Cristina España-Bonet , Josef van Genabith

Unsupervised style transfer models are mainly based on an inductive learning approach, which represents the style as embeddings, decoder parameters, or discriminator parameters and directly applies these general rules to the test cases.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Fei Xiao , Liang Pang , Yanyan Lan , Yan Wang , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

Unsupervised text style transfer aims to transfer the underlying style of text but keep its main content unchanged without parallel data. Most existing methods typically follow two steps: first separating the content from the original…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Fuli Luo , Peng Li , Jie Zhou , Pengcheng Yang , Baobao Chang , Zhifang Sui , Xu Sun

Text attribute transfer aims to automatically rewrite sentences such that they possess certain linguistic attributes, while simultaneously preserving their semantic content. This task remains challenging due to a lack of supervised parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Zhijing Jin , Di Jin , Jonas Mueller , Nicholas Matthews , Enrico Santus

Text style transfer aims to modify the style of a sentence while keeping its content unchanged. Recent style transfer systems often fail to faithfully preserve the content after changing the style. This paper proposes a structured content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Youzhi Tian , Zhiting Hu , Zhou Yu

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

Style transfer aims to rewrite a source text in a different target style while preserving its content. We propose a novel approach to this task that leverages generic resources, and without using any task-specific parallel (source-target)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Huiyuan Lai , Antonio Toral , Malvina Nissim

Text style transfer is an important task in controllable language generation. Supervised approaches have pushed performance improvement on style-oriented rewriting such as formality conversion. However, challenges remain due to the scarcity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Zhengyuan Liu , Nancy F. Chen

We consider the problem of automatically generating textual paraphrases with modified attributes or properties, focusing on the setting without parallel data (Hu et al., 2017; Shen et al., 2017). This setting poses challenges for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Richard Yuanzhe Pang , Kevin Gimpel

Text style transfer is a challenging text generation problem, which aims at altering the style of a given sentence to a target one while keeping its content unchanged. Since there is a natural scarcity of parallel datasets, recent works…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Chenghao Fan , Ziao Li , Wei wei

Text style transfer is the task that generates a sentence by preserving the content of the input sentence and transferring the style. Most existing studies are progressing on non-parallel datasets because parallel datasets are limited and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Joosung Lee

Unsupervised text style transfer task aims to rewrite a text into target style while preserving its main content. Traditional methods rely on the use of a fixed-sized vector to regulate text style, which is difficult to accurately convey…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Yazheng Yang , Zhou Zhao , Qi Liu

Text Style Transfer (TST) is performable through approaches such as latent space disentanglement, cycle-consistency losses, prototype editing etc. The prototype editing approach, which is known to be quite successful in TST, involves two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Sharan Narasimhan , Pooja Shekar , Suvodip Dey , Maunendra Sankar Desarkar

While modern machine translation has relied on large parallel corpora, a recent line of work has managed to train Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems from monolingual corpora only (Artetxe et al., 2018c; Lample et al., 2018). Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Mikel Artetxe , Gorka Labaka , Eneko Agirre

Unsupervised on-the-fly back-translation, in conjunction with multilingual pretraining, is the dominant method for unsupervised neural machine translation. Theoretically, however, the method should not work in general. We therefore conduct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Nicolas Guerin , Shane Steinert-Threlkeld , Emmanuel Chemla

Despite impressive progress in high-resource settings, Neural Machine Translation (NMT) still struggles in low-resource and out-of-domain scenarios, often failing to match the quality of phrase-based translation. We propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Xing Niu , Michael Denkowski , Marine Carpuat

Recent work achieved remarkable results in training neural machine translation (NMT) systems in a fully unsupervised way, with new and dedicated architectures that rely on monolingual corpora only. In this work, we propose to define…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Benjamin Marie , Atsushi Fujita

Paraphrase generation has benefited extensively from recent progress in the designing of training objectives and model architectures. However, previous explorations have largely focused on supervised methods, which require a large amount of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Tong Niu , Semih Yavuz , Yingbo Zhou , Nitish Shirish Keskar , Huan Wang , Caiming Xiong

Machine translation systems achieve near human-level performance on some languages, yet their effectiveness strongly relies on the availability of large amounts of parallel sentences, which hinders their applicability to the majority of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Guillaume Lample , Myle Ott , Alexis Conneau , Ludovic Denoyer , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato