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title = "Neural Text Style Transfer via Denoising and Reranking",
author = "Lee, Joseph and
Xie, Ziang and
Wang, Cindy and
Drach, Max and
Jurafsky, Dan and
Ng, Andrew",
editor = "Bosselut, Antoine and
Celikyilmaz, Asli and
Ghazvininejad, Marjan and
Iyer, Srinivasan and
Khandelwal, Urvashi and
Rashkin, Hannah and
Wolf, Thomas",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on Methods for Optimizing and Evaluating Neural Language Generation",
month = jun,
year = "2019",
address = "Minneapolis, Minnesota",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W19-2309",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W19-2309",
pages = "74--81",
abstract = "We introduce a simple method for text style transfer that frames style transfer as denoising: we synthesize a noisy corpus and treat the source style as a noisy version of the target style. To control for aspects such as preserving meaning while modifying style, we propose a reranking approach in the data synthesis phase. We evaluate our method on three novel style transfer tasks: transferring between British and American varieties, text genres (formal vs. casual), and lyrics from different musical genres. By measuring style transfer quality, meaning preservation, and the fluency of generated outputs, we demonstrate that our method is able both to produce high-quality output while maintaining the flexibility to suggest syntactically rich stylistic edits.",
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%A Lee, Joseph
%A Xie, Ziang
%A Wang, Cindy
%A Drach, Max
%A Jurafsky, Dan
%A Ng, Andrew
%Y Bosselut, Antoine
%Y Celikyilmaz, Asli
%Y Ghazvininejad, Marjan
%Y Iyer, Srinivasan
%Y Khandelwal, Urvashi
%Y Rashkin, Hannah
%Y Wolf, Thomas
%S Proceedings of the Workshop on Methods for Optimizing and Evaluating Neural Language Generation
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%C Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Markdown (Informal)
[Neural Text Style Transfer via Denoising and Reranking](https://aclanthology.org/W19-2309) (Lee et al., NAACL 2019)
ACL
- Joseph Lee, Ziang Xie, Cindy Wang, Max Drach, Dan Jurafsky, and Andrew Ng. 2019. Neural Text Style Transfer via Denoising and Reranking. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Methods for Optimizing and Evaluating Neural Language Generation, pages 74–81, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Association for Computational Linguistics.