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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

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 the paraphrase generation task, source sentences often contain phrases that should not be altered. Which phrases, however, can be context dependent and can vary by application. Our solution to this challenge is to provide the user with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Mohan Zhang , Luchen Tan , Zhengkai Tu , Zihang Fu , Kun Xiong , Ming Li , Jimmy Lin

We present a general framework for unsupervised text style transfer with deep generative models. The framework models each sentence-label pair in the non-parallel corpus as partially observed from a complete quadruplet which additionally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Zhongtao Jiang , Yuanzhe Zhang , Yiming Ju , Kang Liu

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

Controllable generative sequence models with the capability to extract and replicate the style of specific examples enable many applications, including narrating audiobooks in different voices, auto-completing and auto-correcting written…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Jen-Hao Rick Chang , Ashish Shrivastava , Hema Swetha Koppula , Xiaoshuai Zhang , Oncel Tuzel

Text style transfer aims to alter the style of a sentence while preserving its content. Due to the lack of parallel corpora, most recent work focuses on unsupervised methods and often uses cycle construction to train models. Since cycle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Kangchen Zhu , Zhiliang Tian , Ruifeng Luo , Xiaoguang Mao

Prompting approaches have been recently explored in text style transfer, where a textual prompt is used to query a pretrained language model to generate style-transferred texts word by word in an autoregressive manner. However, such a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Guoqing Luo , Yu Tong Han , Lili Mou , Mauajama Firdaus

In this paper, we propose a new paradigm for paraphrase generation by treating the task as unsupervised machine translation (UMT) based on the assumption that there must be pairs of sentences expressing the same meaning in a large-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Xiaofei Sun , Yufei Tian , Yuxian Meng , Nanyun Peng , Fei Wu , Jiwei Li , Chun Fan

Automatic generation of paraphrases from a given sentence is an important yet challenging task in natural language processing (NLP), and plays a key role in a number of applications such as question answering, search, and dialogue. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Zichao Li , Xin Jiang , Lifeng Shang , Hang Li

Formality style transfer (FST) is a task that involves paraphrasing an informal sentence into a formal one without altering its meaning. To address the data-scarcity problem of existing parallel datasets, previous studies tend to adopt a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Ao Liu , An Wang , Naoaki Okazaki

Despite the success of style transfer in image processing, it has seen limited progress in natural language generation. Part of the problem is that content is not as easily decoupled from style in the text domain. Curiously, in the field of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Katy Gero , Chris Kedzie , Jonathan Reeve , Lydia Chilton

Text style transfer task requires the model to transfer a sentence of one style to another style while retaining its original content meaning, which is a challenging problem that has long suffered from the shortage of parallel data. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Mingyue Shang , Piji Li , Zhenxin Fu , Lidong Bing , Dongyan Zhao , Shuming Shi , Rui Yan

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

Paraphrasing is expressing the meaning of an input sentence in different wording while maintaining fluency (i.e., grammatical and syntactical correctness). Most existing work on paraphrasing use supervised models that are limited to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-08 A. B. Siddique , Samet Oymak , Vagelis Hristidis

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

Current approaches in paraphrase generation and detection heavily rely on a single general similarity score, ignoring the intricate linguistic properties of language. This paper introduces two new tasks to address this shortcoming by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Jan Philip Wahle , Bela Gipp , Terry Ruas

Autoregressive models have been widely used in unsupervised text style transfer. Despite their success, these models still suffer from the content preservation problem that they usually ignore part of the source sentence and generate some…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Fei Huang , Zikai Chen , Chen Henry Wu , Qihan Guo , Xiaoyan Zhu , Minlie Huang

Non-parallel text style transfer is an important task in natural language generation. However, previous studies concentrate on the token or sentence level, such as sentence sentiment and formality transfer, but neglect long style transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Xuekai Zhu , Jian Guan , Minlie Huang , Juan Liu

Paraphrase generation is a long-standing task in natural language processing (NLP). Supervised paraphrase generation models, which rely on human-annotated paraphrase pairs, are cost-inefficient and hard to scale up. On the other hand,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Kuan-Hao Huang , Varun Iyer , I-Hung Hsu , Anoop Kumar , Kai-Wei Chang , Aram Galstyan