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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

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

Large language models (LLMs) make it easy to rewrite a text in any style -- e.g. to make it more polite, persuasive, or more positive -- but evaluation thereof is not straightforward. A challenge lies in measuring content preservation: that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Amalie Brogaard Pauli , Isabelle Augenstein , Ira Assent

This paper reviews and summarizes human evaluation practices described in 97 style transfer papers with respect to three main evaluation aspects: style transfer, meaning preservation, and fluency. In principle, evaluations by human raters…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Eleftheria Briakou , Sweta Agrawal , Ke Zhang , Joel Tetreault , Marine Carpuat

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

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

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

The rapid development of such natural language processing tasks as style transfer, paraphrase, and machine translation often calls for the use of semantic similarity metrics. In recent years a lot of methods to measure the semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Ivan P. Yamshchikov , Viacheslav Shibaev , Nikolay Khlebnikov , Alexey Tikhonov

This paper shows that standard assessment methodology for style transfer has several significant problems. First, the standard metrics for style accuracy and semantics preservation vary significantly on different re-runs. Therefore one has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Alexey Tikhonov , Viacheslav Shibaev , Aleksander Nagaev , Aigul Nugmanova , Ivan P. Yamshchikov

A number of recent machine learning papers work with an automated style transfer for texts and, counter to intuition, demonstrate that there is no consensus formulation of this NLP task. Different researchers propose different algorithms,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Alexey Tikhonov , Ivan P. Yamshchikov

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

Text Style Transfer (TST) evaluation is, in practice, inconsistent. Therefore, we conduct a meta-analysis on human and automated TST evaluation and experimentation that thoroughly examines existing literature in the field. The meta-analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Phil Ostheimer , Mayank Nagda , Marius Kloft , Sophie Fellenz

While the field of style transfer (ST) has been growing rapidly, it has been hampered by a lack of standardized practices for automatic evaluation. In this paper, we evaluate leading ST automatic metrics on the oft-researched task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Eleftheria Briakou , Sweta Agrawal , Joel Tetreault , Marine Carpuat

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

Style transfer deals with the algorithms to transfer the stylistic properties of a piece of text into that of another while ensuring that the core content is preserved. There has been a lot of interest in the field of text style transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Abhilasha Sancheti , Kundan Krishna , Balaji Vasan Srinivasan , Anandhavelu Natarajan

The field of Neural Style Transfer (NST) has witnessed remarkable progress in the past few years, with approaches being able to synthesize artistic and photorealistic images and videos of exceptional quality. To evaluate such results, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Eleftherios Ioannou , Steve Maddock

We investigate the potential of ChatGPT as a multidimensional evaluator for the task of \emph{Text Style Transfer}, alongside, and in comparison to, existing automatic metrics as well as human judgements. We focus on a zero-shot setting,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Huiyuan Lai , Antonio Toral , Malvina Nissim

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
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