Text style transfer: A review and experimental evaluation

Z Hu, RKW Lee, CC Aggarwal, A Zhang - ACM SIGKDD Explorations …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The stylistic properties of text have intrigued computational linguistics researchers in recent
years. Specifically, researchers have investigated the text style transfer task (TST), which …

Deep learning for text style transfer: A survey

D **, Z **, Z Hu, O Vechtomova… - Computational …, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
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 …

Inducing positive perspectives with text reframing

C Ziems, M Li, A Zhang, D Yang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2204.02952, 2022 - arxiv.org
Sentiment transfer is one popular example of a text style transfer task, where the goal is to
reverse the sentiment polarity of a text. With a sentiment reversal comes also a reversal in …

Thank you BART! rewarding pre-trained models improves formality style transfer

H Lai, A Toral, M Nissim - arxiv preprint arxiv:2105.06947, 2021 - arxiv.org
Scarcity of parallel data causes formality style transfer models to have scarce success in
preserving content. We show that fine-tuning pre-trained language (GPT-2) and sequence-to …

Olá, bonjour, salve! XFORMAL: A benchmark for multilingual formality style transfer

E Briakou, D Lu, K Zhang… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
We take the first step towards multilingual style transfer by creating and releasing
XFORMAL, a benchmark of multiple formal reformulations of informal text in Brazilian …

[PDF][PDF] Text style transfer via learning style instance supported latent space

X Yi, Z Liu, W Li, M Sun - Proceedings of the twenty-ninth international …, 2021 - ijcai.org
Text style transfer pursues altering the style of a sentence while remaining its main content
unchanged. Due to the lack of parallel corpora, most recent work focuses on unsupervised …

Semi-supervised formality style transfer using language model discriminator and mutual information maximization

K Chawla, D Yang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2010.05090, 2020 - arxiv.org
Formality style transfer is the task of converting informal sentences to grammatically-correct
formal sentences, which can be used to improve performance of many downstream NLP …

Counterfactual generation with identifiability guarantees

H Yan, L Kong, L Gui, Y Chi, E **ng… - Advances in Neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Counterfactual generation lies at the core of various machine learning tasks, including
image translation and controllable text generation. This generation process usually requires …

Evaluating the evaluation metrics for style transfer: A case study in multilingual formality transfer

E Briakou, S Agrawal, J Tetreault, M Carpuat - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
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 …

Boosting distress support dialogue responses with motivational interviewing strategy

A Welivita, P Pu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2305.10195, 2023 - arxiv.org
AI-driven chatbots have become an emerging solution to address psychological distress.
Due to the lack of psychotherapeutic data, researchers use dialogues scraped from online …