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Scarcity of parallel data causes formality style transfer models to have scarce success in preserving content. We show that fine-tuning pre-trained language (GPT-2) and sequence-to-sequence (BART) models boosts content preservation, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Huiyuan Lai , Antonio Toral , Malvina Nissim

Recent neural approaches to data-to-text generation have mostly focused on improving content fidelity while lacking explicit control over writing styles (e.g., word choices, sentence structures). More traditional systems use templates to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Shuai Lin , Wentao Wang , Zichao Yang , Xiaodan Liang , Frank F. Xu , Eric Xing , Zhiting Hu

Text style transfer (TST) involves altering the linguistic style of a text while preserving its core content. This paper focuses on sentiment transfer, a popular TST subtask, across a spectrum of Indian languages: Hindi, Magahi, Malayalam,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Sourabrata Mukherjee , Atul Kr. Ojha , Akanksha Bansal , Deepak Alok , John P. McCrae , Ondřej Dušek

As the functionality of dialogue systems evolves, hybrid dialogue systems that accomplish user-specific goals and participate in open-topic chitchat with users are attracting growing attention. Existing research learns both tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Shimin Li , Qinyuan Cheng , Linyang Li , Xipeng Qiu

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

Language style is necessary for AI systems to understand and generate diverse human language accurately. However, previous text style transfer primarily focused on sentence-level data-driven approaches, limiting exploration of potential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Huashan Sun , Yixiao Wu , Yuhao Ye , Yizhe Yang , Yinghao Li , Jiawei Li , Yang Gao

We present a deep generative model for unsupervised text style transfer that unifies previously proposed non-generative techniques. Our probabilistic approach models non-parallel data from two domains as a partially observed parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Junxian He , Xinyi Wang , Graham Neubig , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

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

Formality is one of the important characteristics of text documents. The automatic detection of the formality level of a text is potentially beneficial for various natural language processing tasks. Before, two large-scale datasets were…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Daryna Dementieva , Nikolay Babakov , Alexander Panchenko

Many types of text style transfer can be achieved with only small, precise edits (e.g. sentiment transfer from I had a terrible time... to I had a great time...). We propose a coarse-to-fine editor for style transfer that transforms text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Machel Reid , Victor Zhong

The shapes of functions provide highly interpretable summaries of their trajectories. This article develops a novel transfer learning methodology to tackle the challenge of data scarcity in functional linear models. The methodology…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-16 Shuhao Jiao , Ian W. Mckeague

Although text style transfer has witnessed rapid development in recent years, there is as yet no established standard for evaluation, which is performed using several automatic metrics, lacking the possibility of always resorting to human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Huiyuan Lai , Jiali Mao , Antonio Toral , Malvina Nissim

Arbitrary style transfer is an important problem in computer vision that aims to transfer style patterns from an arbitrary style image to a given content image. However, current methods either rely on slow iterative optimization or fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Suryabhan Singh Hada , Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán

In most cases, the lack of parallel corpora makes it impossible to directly train supervised models for the text style transfer task. In this paper, we explore training algorithms that instead optimize reward functions that explicitly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Yixin Liu , Graham Neubig , John Wieting

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

The rapid development of generative diffusion models has significantly advanced the field of style transfer. However, most current style transfer methods based on diffusion models typically involve a slow iterative optimization process,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Feihong He , Gang Li , Fuhui Sun , Mengyuan Zhang , Lingyu Si , Xiaoyan Wang , Li Shen

Cross-lingual model transfer is a compelling and popular method for predicting annotations in a low-resource language, whereby parallel corpora provide a bridge to a high-resource language and its associated annotated corpora. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Meng Fang , Trevor Cohn

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

Text style transfer techniques are gaining popularity in Natural Language Processing, finding various applications such as text detoxification, sentiment, or formality transfer. However, the majority of the existing approaches were tested…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Nikolay Babakov , David Dale , Varvara Logacheva , Irina Krotova , Alexander Panchenko

In this paper, we focus on a new practical task, document-scale text content manipulation, which is the opposite of text style transfer and aims to preserve text styles while altering the content. In detail, the input is a set of structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Xiaocheng Feng , Yawei Sun , Bing Qin , Heng Gong , Yibo Sun , Wei Bi , Xiaojiang Liu , Ting Liu