@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://aclanthology.org/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.",
}
Markdown (Informal)
[Learning to Generate Multiple Style Transfer Outputs for an Input Sentence](https://aclanthology.org/2020.ngt-1.2) (Lin et al., NGT 2020)
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