Deep Learning for Text Style Transfer: A Survey

Di Jin, Zhijing Jin, Zhiting Hu, Olga Vechtomova, Rada Mihalcea


Abstract
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 language processing, and recently has re-gained significant attention thanks to the promising performance brought by deep neural models. In this article, we present a systematic survey of the research on neural text style transfer, spanning over 100 representative articles since the first neural text style transfer work in 2017. We discuss the task formulation, existing datasets and subtasks, evaluation, as well as the rich methodologies in the presence of parallel and non-parallel data. We also provide discussions on a variety of important topics regarding the future development of this task.1
Anthology ID:
2022.cl-1.6
Volume:
Computational Linguistics, Volume 48, Issue 1 - March 2022
Month:
March
Year:
2022
Address:
Cambridge, MA
Venue:
CL
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Publisher:
MIT Press
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Pages:
155–205
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.cl-1.6
DOI:
10.1162/coli_a_00426
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Cite (ACL):
Di Jin, Zhijing Jin, Zhiting Hu, Olga Vechtomova, and Rada Mihalcea. 2022. Deep Learning for Text Style Transfer: A Survey. Computational Linguistics, 48(1):155–205.
Cite (Informal):
Deep Learning for Text Style Transfer: A Survey (Jin et al., CL 2022)
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.cl-1.6.pdf
Code
 fuzhenxin/Style-Transfer-in-Text +  additional community code
Data
GYAFC