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Generating faithful and readable styled text images (especially for Styled Handwritten Text generation - HTG) is an open problem with several possible applications across graphic design, document understanding, and image editing. A lot of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Carmine Zaccagnino , Fabio Quattrini , Vittorio Pippi , Silvia Cascianelli , Alessio Tonioni , Rita Cucchiara

The ability of a dialog system to express consistent language style during conversations has a direct, positive impact on its usability and on user satisfaction. Although previous studies have demonstrated that style transfer is feasible…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Hao Fu , Yan Wang , Ruihua Song , Tianran Hu , Jianyun Nie

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

Stylistic headline generation is the task to generate a headline that not only summarizes the content of an article, but also reflects a desired style that attracts users. As style-specific article-headline pairs are scarce, previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Hanqing Wang , Yajing Luo , Boya Xiong , Guanhua Chen , Yun Chen

Natural language generators for task-oriented dialogue must effectively realize system dialogue actions and their associated semantics. In many applications, it is also desirable for generators to control the style of an utterance. To date,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Shereen Oraby , Lena Reed , Shubhangi Tandon , T. S. Sharath , Stephanie Lukin , Marilyn Walker

Retrieval systems often fail when user queries differ stylistically or semantically from the language used in domain documents. Query rewriting has been proposed to bridge this gap, improving retrieval by reformulating user queries into…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiyoon Myung , Jungki Son , Kyungro Lee , Jihyeon Park , Joohyung Han

Natural Language Generation (NLG) for task-oriented dialogue systems focuses on communicating specific content accurately, fluently, and coherently. While these attributes are crucial for a successful dialogue, it is also desirable to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Alicia Y. Tsai , Shereen Oraby , Vittorio Perera , Jiun-Yu Kao , Yuheng Du , Anjali Narayan-Chen , Tagyoung Chung , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Most of the existing works on image description focus on generating expressive descriptions. The only few works that are dedicated to generating stylish (e.g., romantic, lyric, etc.) descriptions suffer from limited style variation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Cheng Kuan Chen , Zhu Feng Pan , Min Sun , Ming-Yu Liu

Text style transfer is the task of transferring the style of text having certain stylistic attributes, while preserving non-stylistic or content information. In this work we introduce the Generative Style Transformer (GST) - a new approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Akhilesh Sudhakar , Bhargav Upadhyay , Arjun Maheswaran

Personalized text generation aims to infer users' writing style preferences from their historical texts and generate outputs that faithfully reflect these stylistic characteristics. Existing solutions primarily adopt two paradigms:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Jinghao Zhang , Yuting Liu , Wenjie Wang , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

Style transfer has been widely explored in natural language generation with non-parallel corpus by directly or indirectly extracting a notion of style from source and target domain corpus. A common shortcoming of existing approaches is the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Navita Goyal , Balaji Vasan Srinivasan , Anandhavelu Natarajan , Abhilasha Sancheti

Current Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation (KDG) models specialize in producing rational and factual responses. However, to establish long-term relationships with users, the KDG model needs the capability to generate responses in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Qingfeng Sun , Can Xu , Huang Hu , Yujing Wang , Jian Miao , Xiubo Geng , Yining Chen , Fei Xu , Daxin Jiang

Existing data-to-text generation efforts mainly focus on generating a coherent text from non-linguistic input data, such as tables and attribute-value pairs, but overlook that different application scenarios may require texts of different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Liqiang Jing , Xuemeng Song , Xuming Lin , Zhongzhou Zhao , Wei Zhou , Liqiang Nie

Generating responses following a desired style has great potentials to extend applications of open-domain dialogue systems, yet is refrained by lacking of parallel data for training. In this work, we explore the challenging task with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Ze Yang , Wei Wu , Can Xu , Xinnian Liang , Jiaqi Bai , Liran Wang , Wei Wang , Zhoujun Li

Styled handwriting generation aims to synthesize handwritten text that looks both realistic and aligned with a specific writer's style. While recent approaches involving GAN, transformer and diffusion-based models have made progress, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Sajjan Acharya , Rajendra Baskota

Text-driven style transfer aims to merge the style of a reference image with content described by a text prompt. Recent advancements in text-to-image models have improved the nuance of style transformations, yet significant challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Mingkun Lei , Xue Song , Beier Zhu , Hao Wang , Chi Zhang

In the current research landscape, multimodal autoregressive (AR) models have shown exceptional capabilities across various domains, including visual understanding and generation. However, complex tasks such as style-aligned text-to-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yi Wu , Lingting Zhu , Shengju Qian , Lei Liu , Wandi Qiao , Lequan Yu , Bin Li

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

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

Current language models achieve low perplexity but their resulting generations still suffer from toxic responses, repetitiveness and contradictions. The standard language modeling setup fails to address these issues. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Kushal Arora , Kurt Shuster , Sainbayar Sukhbaatar , Jason Weston