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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

Text style transfer rephrases a text from a source style (e.g., informal) to a target style (e.g., formal) while keeping its original meaning. Despite the success existing works have achieved using a parallel corpus for the two styles,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Hongyu Gong , Suma Bhat , Lingfei Wu , Jinjun Xiong , Wen-mei Hwu

The task of obfuscating writing style using sequence models has previously been investigated under the framework of obfuscation-by-transfer, where the input text is explicitly rewritten in another style. These approaches also often lead to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Chris Emmery , Enrique Manjavacas , Grzegorz Chrupała

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

Style transfer is the task of automatically transforming a piece of text in one particular style into another. A major barrier to progress in this field has been a lack of training and evaluation datasets, as well as benchmarks and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Sudha Rao , Joel Tetreault

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

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

Unsupervised text style transfer aims at training a generative model that can alter the style of the input sentence while preserving its content without using any parallel data. In this paper, we employ powerful pre-trained large language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Huiyu Mai , Wenhao Jiang , Zhihong Deng

Text style transfer refers to the task of rephrasing a given text in a different style. While various methods have been proposed to advance the state of the art, they often assume the transfer output follows a delta distribution, and thus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Kevin Lin , Ming-Yu Liu , Ming-Ting Sun , Jan Kautz

The performance of existing text style transfer models is severely limited by the non-parallel datasets on which the models are trained. In non-parallel datasets, no direct mapping exists between sentences of the source and target style;…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Ruibo Liu , Chongyang Gao , Chenyan Jia , Guangxuan Xu , Soroush Vosoughi

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

Text style transfer is an exciting task within the field of natural language generation that is often plagued by the need for high-quality paired datasets. Furthermore, training a model for multi-attribute text style transfer requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Debarati Das , David Ma , Dongyeop Kang

Arbitrary image style transfer is a challenging task which aims to stylize a content image conditioned on arbitrary style images. In this task the feature-level content-style transformation plays a vital role for proper fusion of features.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Siyu Huang , Haoyi Xiong , Tianyang Wang , Bihan Wen , Qingzhong Wang , Zeyu Chen , Jun Huan , Dejing Dou

Text Style Transfer (TST) is a pivotal task in natural language generation to manipulate text style attributes while preserving style-independent content. The attributes targeted in TST can vary widely, including politeness, authorship,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Sourabrata Mukherjee , Ondrej Dušek

Disentangling the content and style in the latent space is prevalent in unpaired text style transfer. However, two major issues exist in most of the current neural models. 1) It is difficult to completely strip the style information from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Ning Dai , Jianze Liang , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

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

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

We exploit the pre-trained seq2seq model mBART for multilingual text style transfer. Using machine translated data as well as gold aligned English sentences yields state-of-the-art results in the three target languages we consider. Besides,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Huiyuan Lai , Antonio Toral , Malvina Nissim

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

In this work, we take the named entity recognition task in the English language as a case study and explore style transfer as a data augmentation method to increase the size and diversity of training data in low-resource scenarios. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Shuguang Chen , Leonardo Neves , Thamar Solorio