Katarzyna Witkowska
2020
An Empirical Study on Multi-Task Learning for Text Style Transfer and Paraphrase Generation
Pawel Bujnowski
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Kseniia Ryzhova
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Hyungtak Choi
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Katarzyna Witkowska
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Jaroslaw Piersa
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Tymoteusz Krumholc
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Katarzyna Beksa
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Industry Track
The topic of this paper is neural multi-task training for text style transfer. We present an efficient method for neutral-to-style transformation using the transformer framework. We demonstrate how to prepare a robust model utilizing large paraphrases corpora together with a small parallel style transfer corpus. We study how much style transfer data is needed for a model on the example of two transformations: neutral-to-cute on internal corpus and modern-to-antique on publicly available Bible corpora. Additionally, we propose a synthetic measure for the automatic evaluation of style transfer models. We hope our research is a step towards replacing common but limited rule-based style transfer systems by more flexible machine learning models for both public and commercial usage.
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- Paweł Bujnowski 1
- Kseniia Ryzhova 1
- Hyungtak Choi 1
- Jarosław Piersa 1
- Tymoteusz Krumholc 1
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