Meet your favorite character: Open-domain chatbot mimicking fictional characters with only a few utterances

S Han, B Kim, JY Yoo, S Seo, S Kim, E Erdenee… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we consider mimicking fictional characters as a promising direction for building
engaging conversation models. To this end, we present a new practical task where only a …

Arabic Text Formality Modification: A Review and Future Research Directions

SI Abudalfa, FJ Abdu, MM Alowaifeer - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Formality transfer seeks to adjust text formality without altering its core meaning, which
carries substantial implications across diverse domains like machine translation, dialogue …

A text style transfer system for reducing the physician–patient expertise gap: An analysis with automatic and human evaluations

L Bacco, F Dell'Orletta, H Lai, M Merone… - Expert Systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
Physicians and patients often come from different backgrounds and have varying levels of
education, which can result in communication difficulties in the healthcare process. To …

A call for standardization and validation of text style transfer evaluation

P Ostheimer, M Nagda, M Kloft, S Fellenz - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Text Style Transfer (TST) evaluation is, in practice, inconsistent. Therefore, we conduct a
meta-analysis on human and automated TST evaluation and experimentation that …

Multilingual pre-training with language and task adaptation for multilingual text style transfer

H Lai, A Toral, M Nissim - arxiv preprint arxiv:2203.08552, 2022 - arxiv.org
We exploit the pre-trained seq2seq model mBART for multilingual text style transfer. Using
machine translated data as well as gold aligned English sentences yields state-of-the-art …

Human judgement as a compass to navigate automatic metrics for formality transfer

H Lai, J Mao, A Toral, M Nissim - arxiv preprint arxiv:2204.07549, 2022 - arxiv.org
Although text style transfer has witnessed rapid development in recent years, there is as yet
no established standard for evaluation, which is performed using several automatic metrics …

Multi-figurative language generation

H Lai, M Nissim - arxiv preprint arxiv:2209.01835, 2022 - arxiv.org
Figurative language generation is the task of reformulating a given text in the desired figure
of speech while still being faithful to the original context. We take the first step towards multi …

MSSRNet: Manipulating sequential style representation for unsupervised text style transfer

Y Yang, Z Zhao, Q Liu - Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGKDD …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Unsupervised text style transfer task aims to rewrite a text into target style while preserving
its main content. Traditional methods rely on the use of a fixed-sized vector to regulate text …

A study on manual and automatic evaluation for text style transfer: The case of detoxification

V Logacheva, D Dementieva, I Krotova… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
It is often difficult to reliably evaluate models which generate text. Among them, text style
transfer is a particularly difficult to evaluate, because its success depends on a number of …

Responsibility perspective transfer for Italian femicide news

G Minnema, H Lai, B Muscato, M Nissim - arxiv preprint arxiv:2306.00437, 2023 - arxiv.org
Different ways of linguistically expressing the same real-world event can lead to different
perceptions of what happened. Previous work has shown that different descriptions of …