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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

We introduce a new task, Contextual Text Style Transfer - translating a sentence into a desired style with its surrounding context taken into account. This brings two key challenges to existing style transfer approaches: ($i$) how to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Yu Cheng , Zhe Gan , Yizhe Zhang , Oussama Elachqar , Dianqi Li , Jingjing Liu

Binary classifiers are often employed as discriminators in GAN-based unsupervised style transfer systems to ensure that transferred sentences are similar to sentences in the target domain. One difficulty with this approach is that the error…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Zichao Yang , Zhiting Hu , Chris Dyer , Eric P. Xing , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Text style transfer without parallel data has achieved some practical success. However, in the scenario where less data is available, these methods may yield poor performance. In this paper, we examine domain adaptation for text style…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Dianqi Li , Yizhe Zhang , Zhe Gan , Yu Cheng , Chris Brockett , Ming-Ting Sun , Bill Dolan

To overcome the data-hungry challenge, we have proposed a semi-supervised contrastive learning framework for the task of class-imbalanced semantic segmentation. First and foremost, to make the model operate in a semi-supervised manner, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Kangcheng Liu

Existing text style transfer (TST) methods rely on style classifiers to disentangle the text's content and style attributes for text style transfer. While the style classifier plays a critical role in existing TST methods, there is no known…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Zhiqiang Hu , Roy Ka-Wei Lee , Charu C. Aggarwal

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

Human beings can quickly adapt to environmental changes by leveraging learning experience. However, the poor ability of adapting to dynamic environments remains a major challenge for AI models. To better understand this issue, we study the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Peng Su , Shixiang Tang , Peng Gao , Di Qiu , Ni Zhao , Xiaogang Wang

Unsupervised style transfer aims to change the style of an input sentence while preserving its original content without using parallel training data. In current dominant approaches, owing to the lack of fine-grained control on the influence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Chulun Zhou , Liangyu Chen , Jiachen Liu , Xinyan Xiao , Jinsong Su , Sheng Guo , Hua Wu

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

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

Though offering amazing contextualized token-level representations, current pre-trained language models actually take less attention on acquiring sentence-level representation during its self-supervised pre-training. If self-supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Bohong Wu , Hai Zhao

Text style transfer aims to modify the style of a sentence while keeping its content unchanged. Recent style transfer systems often fail to faithfully preserve the content after changing the style. This paper proposes a structured content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Youzhi Tian , Zhiting Hu , Zhou Yu

Back-translation based approaches have recently lead to significant progress in unsupervised sequence-to-sequence tasks such as machine translation or style transfer. In this work, we extend the paradigm to the problem of learning a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Yacine Jernite

Existing text recognition methods usually need large-scale training data. Most of them rely on synthetic training data due to the lack of annotated real images. However, there is a domain gap between the synthetic data and real data, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Mingkun Yang , Minghui Liao , Pu Lu , Jing Wang , Shenggao Zhu , Hualin Luo , Qi Tian , Xiang Bai

Text style transfer aims to alter the style (e.g., sentiment) of a sentence while preserving its content. A common approach is to map a given sentence to content representation that is free of style, and the content representation is fed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Dongkyu Lee , Zhiliang Tian , Lanqing Xue , Nevin L. Zhang

Expressing in language is subjective. Everyone has a different style of reading and writing, apparently it all boil downs to the way their mind understands things (in a specific format). Language style transfer is a way to preserve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Ayush Singh , Ritu Palod

Translated texts exhibit systematic linguistic differences compared to original texts in the same language, and these differences are referred to as translationese. Translationese has effects on various cross-lingual natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Rricha Jalota , Koel Dutta Chowdhury , Cristina España-Bonet , Josef van Genabith

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

Graph contrastive learning is the state-of-the-art unsupervised graph representation learning framework and has shown comparable performance with supervised approaches. However, evaluating whether the graph contrastive learning is robust to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Sixiao Zhang , Hongxu Chen , Xiangguo Sun , Yicong Li , Guandong Xu