@inproceedings{lin-etal-2020-learning,
    title = "Learning to Generate Multiple Style Transfer Outputs for an Input Sentence",
    author = "Lin, Kevin  and
      Liu, Ming-Yu  and
      Sun, Ming-Ting  and
      Kautz, Jan",
    editor = "Birch, Alexandra  and
      Finch, Andrew  and
      Hayashi, Hiroaki  and
      Heafield, Kenneth  and
      Junczys-Dowmunt, Marcin  and
      Konstas, Ioannis  and
      Li, Xian  and
      Neubig, Graham  and
      Oda, Yusuke",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Neural Generation and Translation",
    month = jul,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2020.ngt-1.2/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.ngt-1.2",
    pages = "10--23",
    abstract = "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 their models cannot generate different style transfer results for a given input text. To address the limitation, we propose a one-to-many text style transfer framework. In contrast to prior works that learn a one-to-one mapping that converts an input sentence to one output sentence, our approach learns a one-to-many mapping that can convert an input sentence to multiple different output sentences, while preserving the input content. This is achieved by applying adversarial training with a latent decomposition scheme. Specifically, we decompose the latent representation of the input sentence to a style code that captures the language style variation and a content code that encodes the language style-independent content. We then combine the content code with the style code for generating a style transfer output. By combining the same content code with a different style code, we generate a different style transfer output. Extensive experimental results with comparisons to several text style transfer approaches on multiple public datasets using a diverse set of performance metrics validate effectiveness of the proposed approach."
}