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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

Stylometry can be used to profile or deanonymize authors against their will based on writing style. Style transfer provides a defence. Current techniques typically use either encoder-decoder architectures or rule-based algorithms.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Tommi Gröndahl , N. Asokan

This paper focuses on style transfer on the basis of non-parallel text. This is an instance of a broad family of problems including machine translation, decipherment, and sentiment modification. The key challenge is to separate the content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Tianxiao Shen , Tao Lei , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Text style transfer refers to the task of rephrasing a given text in a different style. While various methods have been proposed to advance the state of the art, they often assume the transfer output follows a delta distribution, and thus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Kevin Lin , Ming-Yu Liu , Ming-Ting Sun , Jan Kautz

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

Style is an integral component of a sentence indicated by the choice of words a person makes. Different people have different ways of expressing themselves, however, they adjust their speaking and writing style to a social context, an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Martina Toshevska , Sonja Gievska

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

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 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

It is well known that textual data on the internet and other digital platforms contain significant levels of bias and stereotypes. Although many such texts contain stereotypes and biases that inherently exist in natural language for reasons…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Ewoenam Kwaku Tokpo , Toon Calders

Formality style transformation is the task of modifying the formality of a given sentence without changing its content. Its challenge is the lack of large-scale sentence-aligned parallel data. In this paper, we propose an omnivorous model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Ruochen Xu , Tao Ge , Furu Wei

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

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

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

Text Style Transfer (TST) is a pivotal task in natural language generation to manipulate text style attributes while preserving style-independent content. The attributes targeted in TST can vary widely, including politeness, authorship,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Sourabrata Mukherjee , Ondrej Dušek

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

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

Text sentiment transfer aims to flip the sentiment polarity of a sentence (positive to negative or vice versa) while preserving its sentiment-independent content. Although current models show good results at changing the sentiment, content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Sourabrata Mukherjee , Zdeněk Kasner , Ondřej Dušek

End-to-end neural TTS training has shown improved performance in speech style transfer. However, the improvement is still limited by the training data in both target styles and speakers. Inadequate style transfer performance occurs when the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Xiaochun An , Frank K. Soong , Lei Xie

The curse of knowledge can impede communication between experts and laymen. We propose a new task of expertise style transfer and contribute a manually annotated dataset with the goal of alleviating such cognitive biases. Solving this task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Yixin Cao , Ruihao Shui , Liangming Pan , Min-Yen Kan , Zhiyuan Liu , Tat-Seng Chua