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This is the reading list for text style transfer papers maintained by Zhijing Jin at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen.

A comprehensive overview of the field is introduced in our survey Deep Learning for Text Style Transfer: A Survey (2020) by Di Jin*, Zhijing Jin* (Equal contribution), Zhiting Hu, Olga Vechtomova, and Rada Mihalcea.

Reading List for Text Style Transfer

Workshops and Tutorials

Papers Classified by Method

Unsupervised (Non-parallel Data)

(Unsupervised Method 1) Disentanglement

  1. (2017 ICML) Sequence to Better Sequence: Continuous Revision of Combinatorial Structures. Jonas Mueller, David Gifford, Tommi Jaakkola. [paper] [code]
  2. (2017 ICML) Toward Controlled Generation of Text. Zhiting Hu, Zichao Yang, Xiaodan Liang, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Eric P. Xing. [paper] [code] [unofficial code]
  3. (2017 NeurIPS) Style Transfer from Non-Parallel Text by Cross-Alignment. Tianxiao Shen, Tao Lei, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola. [paper] [code] [data - Yelp ]
  4. (2017 arXiv) Zero-Shot Style Transfer in Text Using Recurrent Neural Networks. Keith Carlson, Allen Riddell, Daniel Rockmore. [paper] [code]
  5. (2017 NLPCC) Unsupervised Automatic Text Style Transfer Using LSTM. __. [paper]
  6. (2018 AAAI) Style Transfer in Text: Exploration and Evaluation. Zhenxin Fu, Xiaoye Tan, Nanyun Peng, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan. [paper] [code]
  7. (2018 ICML) Adversarially Regularized Autoencoders. Jake Zhao (Junbo), Yoon Kim, Kelly Zhang, Alexander M. Rush, Yann LeCun. [paper] [code]
  8. (2018 NAACL) SHAPED: Shared-Private Encoder-Decoder for Text Style Adaptation. __. [paper]
  9. (2018 ACL) Style Transfer Through Back-Translation. Shrimai Prabhumoye, Yulia Tsvetkov, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Alan W Black. [paper] [code]
  10. (2018 ACL) Unpaired Sentiment-to-Sentiment Translation: A Cycled Reinforcement Learning Approach. Jingjing Xu, Xu Sun, Qi Zeng, Xuancheng Ren, Xiaodong Zhang, Houfeng Wang, Wenjie Li. [paper] [code]
  11. (2018 EMNLP) Learning Sentiment Memories for Sentiment Modification without Parallel Data. Yi Zhang, Jingjing Xu, Pengcheng Yang, Xu Sun. [paper] [code]
  12. (2018 NeurIPS) Unsupervised Text Style Transfer using Language Models as Discriminators. Zichao Yang, Zhiting Hu, Chris Dyer, Eric P. Xing, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick. [paper]
  13. (2018 NeurIPS) Content preserving text generation with attribute controls. Lajanugen Logeswaran, Honglak Lee, Samy Bengio. [paper]
  14. (2018 NeurIPS) Adversarial Text Generation via Feature-Mover's Distance. Liqun Chen, Shuyang Dai, Chenyang Tao, Dinghan Shen, Zhe Gan, Haichao Zhang, Yizhe Zhang, Lawrence Carin. [paper] [unofficial code]
  15. (2018 arXiv) Language Style Transfer from Sentences with Arbitrary Unknown Styles. Yanpeng Zhao, Wei Bi, Deng Cai, Xiaojiang Liu, Kewei Tu, Shuming Shi. [paper]
  16. (2018 arXiv) Structured Content Preservation for Unsupervised Text Style Transfer. Youzhi Tian, Zhiting Hu, Zhou Yu. [paper] [code]
  17. (2019 NAACL) Reinforcement Learning Based Text Style Transfer without Parallel Training Corpus. Hongyu Gong, Suma Bhat, Lingfei Wu, Jinjun Xiong, Wen-mei Hwu. [paper]
  18. (2019 ICLR) Multiple-Attribute Text Style Transfer (Rewriting). Guillaume Lample, Sandeep Subramanian, Eric Smith, Ludovic Denoyer, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, Y-Lan Boureau. [paper] [code]
  19. (2019 ACL) Disentangled Representation Learning for Non-Parallel Text Style Transfer. Vineet John, Lili Mou, Hareesh Bahuleyan, Olga Vechtomova. [paper] [code]
  20. (2019 ACL) Style Transformer: Unpaired Text Style Transfer without Disentangled Latent Representation. Ning Dai, Jianze Liang, Xipeng Qiu, Xuanjing Huang. [paper]
  21. (2019 ACL) A Hierarchical Reinforced Sequence Operation Method for Unsupervised Text Style Transfer. Chen Wu, Xuancheng Ren, Fuli Luo, Xu Sun. [paper] [code]
  22. (2019 ACL) Generating Sentences from Disentangled Syntactic and Semantic Spaces. Yu Bao, Hao Zhou, Shujian Huang, Lei Li, Lili Mou, Olga Vechtomova, Xin-yu Dai, Jiajun Chen. [paper] [code]
  23. (2019 IJCAI) A Dual Reinforcement Learning Framework for Unsupervised Text Style Transfer. Fuli Luo, Peng Li, Jie Zhou, Pengcheng Yang, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui, Xu Sun. [paper] [code]
  24. (2019 NeurIPS) Controllable Unsupervised Text Attribute Transfer via Editing Entangled Latent Representation. Ke Wang, Hang Hua, Xiaojun Wan. [paper] [code]
  25. (2019 ICAART) Towards Controlled Transformation of Sentiment in Sentences. Wouter Leeftink, Gerasimos Spanakis. [paper]
  26. (2019 WNGT) Decomposing Textual Information For Style Transfer. Ivan P. Yamshchikov, Viacheslav Shibaev, Aleksander Nagaev, Jürgen Jost, Alexey Tikhonov. [paper] [code]
  27. (2019 arXiv) Grammatical Error Correction and Style Transfer via Zero-shot Monolingual Translation. Elizaveta Korotkova, Agnes Luhtaru, Maksym Del, Krista Liin, Daiga Deksne, Mark Fishel. [paper]
  28. (2019 arXiv) Zero-Shot Fine-Grained Style Transfer: Leveraging Distributed Continuous Style Representations to Transfer To Unseen Styles. Eric Michael Smith, Diana Gonzalez-Rico, Emily Dinan, Y-Lan Boureau. [paper]
  29. (2020 AAAI) Revision in Continuous Space: Unsupervised Text Style Transfer without Adversarial Learning. Dayiheng Liu, Jie Fu, Yidan Zhang, Chris Pal, Jiancheng Lv. [paper] [code]
  30. (2020 ICML) On Variational Learning of Controllable Representations for Text without Supervision. Peng Xu, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Yanshuai Cao. [paper] [code]
  31. (2020 ICLR) A Probabilistic Formulation of Unsupervised Text Style Transfer. Junxian He, Xinyi Wang, Graham Neubig, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick. [paper] [code]
  32. (2020 ACL) Exploring Contextual Word-level Style Relevance for Unsupervised Style Transfer. Chulun Zhou, Liangyu Chen, Jiachen Liu, Xinyan Xiao, Jinsong Su, Sheng Guo, Hua Wu. [paper] [code]
  33. (2020 ACL) Pre-train and Plug-in: Flexible Conditional Text Generation with Variational Auto-Encoders. Yu Duan, Canwen Xu, Jiaxin Pei, Jialong Han, Chenliang Li. [paper]
  34. (2020 IJCAI) Text Style Transfer via Learning Style Instance Supported Latent Space. Xiaoyuan Yi, Zhenghao Liu, Wenhao Li, Maosong Sun. [paper] [video] [code]
  35. (2020 EMNLP) Contextual Text Style Transfer. Yu Cheng, Zhe Gan, Yizhe Zhang, Oussama Elachqar, Dianqi Li, Jingjing Liu. [paper] [code]
  36. (2020 COLING) Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Autoencoders for Unsupervised Text Style Transfer. Yufang Huang, Wentao Zhu, Deyi Xiong, Yiye Zhang, Changjian Hu, Feiyu Xu. [paper]
  37. (2020 COLING) How Positive Are You: Text Style Transfer using Adaptive Style Embedding. Heejin Kim, Kyung-Ah Sohn. [paper] [code]
  38. (2020 ECIR) SentiInc: Incorporating Sentiment Information into Sentiment Transfer Without Parallel Data. Kartikey Pant, Yash Verma, Radhika Mamidi. [paper]
  39. (2020 ECIR) Reinforced Rewards Framework for Text Style Transfer. Abhilasha Sancheti, Kundan Krishna, Balaji Vasan Srinivasan, Anandhavelu Natarajan. [paper]
  40. (2020 arXiv) ST2: Small-data Text Style Transfer via Multi-task Meta-Learning. Xiwen Chen, Kenny Q. Zhu. [paper]
  41. (2020 arXiv) Learning to Generate Multiple Style Transfer Outputs for an Input Sentence. Kevin Lin, Ming-Yu Liu, Ming-Ting Sun, Jan Kautz. [paper]
  42. (2021 NAACL) On Learning Text Style Transfer with Direct Rewards. Yixin Liu, Graham Neubig, John Wieting. [paper]
  43. (2021 NAACL) Multi-Style Transfer with Discriminative Feedback on Disjoint Corpus. Navita Goyal, Balaji Vasan Srinivasan, Anandhavelu Natarajan, Abhilasha Sancheti. [paper]
  44. (2021 ACL) A Hierarchical VAE for Calibrating Attributes while Generating Text using Normalizing Flow. Bidisha Samanta, Mohit Agrawal, NIloy Ganguly. [paper]
  45. (2021 ACL) Enhancing Content Preservation in Text Style Transfer Using Reverse Attention and Conditional Layer Normalization. Dongkyu Lee, Zhiliang Tian, Lanqing Xue and Nevin L. Zhang. [paper]
  46. (2021 ACL) Counterfactuals to Control Latent Disentangled Text Representations for Style Transfer. Sharmila Reddy Nangi, Niyati Chhaya, Sopan Khosla, Nikhil Kaushik and Harshit Nyati. [paper]
  47. (2021 ACL) TextSETTR: Few-Shot Text Style Extraction and Tunable Targeted Restyling. Parker Riley, Noah Constant, Mandy Guo, Girish Kumar, David Uthus, Zarana Parekh. [paper]

(Unsupervised Method 2) Prototype Editing

  1. (2018 TACL) Generating sentences by editing prototypes. Kelvin Guu, Tatsunori B. Hashimoto, Yonatan Oren, Percy Liang. [paper]
  2. (2018 NAACL) Delete, Retrieve, Generate: A Simple Approach to Sentiment and Style Transfer. Juncen Li, Robin Jia, He He, Percy Liang. [paper] [code]
  3. (2019 IJCAI) Mask and Infill: Applying Masked Language Model to Sentiment Transfer. Xing Wu, Tao Zhang, Liangjun Zang, Jizhong Han, Songlin Hu. [paper] [code]
  4. (2019 EMNLP) Transforming Delete, Retrieve, Generate Approach for Controlled Text Style Transfer. Akhilesh Sudhakar, Bhargav Upadhyay, Arjun Maheswaran. [paper] [code]
  5. (2019 EMNLP) Style Transfer for Texts: Retrain, Report Errors, Compare with Rewrites. Alexey Tikhonov, Viacheslav Shibaev, Aleksander Nagaev, Aigul Nugmanova, Ivan P. Yamshchikov. [paper] [code]
  6. (2020 EMNLP) Unsupervised Text Style Transfer with Padded Masked Language Models. Eric Malmi, Aliaksei Severyn, Sascha Rothe. [paper]
  7. (2020 INLG) Stable Style Transformer: Delete and Generate Approach with Encoder-Decoder for Text Style Transfer. Joosung Lee. [paper] [code]
  8. (2021 ACL Findings) LEWIS: Levenshtein Editing for Unsupervised Text Style Transfer. Machel Reid, Victor Zhong. [paper]
  9. (2021 ACL Findings) NAST: A Non-Autoregressive Generator with Word Alignment for Unsupervised Text Style Transfer. Fei Huang, Zikai Chen, Chen Henry Wu, Qihan Guo, Xiaoyan Zhu, Minlie Huang. [paper]

(Unsupervised Method 3) Back-Translation / Pseudo Data Construction

  1. (2018 EMNLP) QuaSE: Sequence Editing under Quantifiable Guidance. Yi Liao, Lidong Bing, Piji Li, Shuming Shi, Wai Lam, Tong Zhang. [paper] [code]
  2. (2018 arXiv) Style Transfer as Unsupervised Machine Translation. __. [paper]
  3. (2019 EMNLP) IMaT: Unsupervised Text Attribute Transfer via Iterative Matching and Translation. Zhijing Jin, Di Jin, Jonas Mueller, Nicholas Matthews, Enrico Santus. [paper] [code]
  4. (2019 RANLP) Large-scale Hierarchical Alignment for Data-driven Text Rewriting. Nikola I. Nikolov, Richard H.R. Hahnloser. [paper] [code]
  5. (2020 NeurIPS) Unsupervised Text Generation by Learning from Search. Jingjing Li, Zichao Li, Lili Mou, Xin Jiang, Michael R. Lyu, Irwin King. [paper]

(Unsupervised Method 4) Paraphrasing

  1. (2020 EMNLP) Reformulating Unsupervised Style Transfer as Paraphrase Generation. Kalpesh Krishna, John Wieting, Mohit Iyyer. [paper] [video] [code]
  2. (2020 EMNLP) DGST: a Dual-Generator Network for Text Style Transfer. Xiao Li, Guanyi Chen, Chenghua Lin, Ruizhe Li. [paper]
  3. (2020 PETS) Effective writing style imitation via combinatorial paraphrasing. Tommi Gröndahl, N. Asokan. [paper]

Semi-Supervised

  1. (2019 EMNLP) Semi-supervised Text Style Transfer: Cross Projection in Latent Space. Mingyue Shang, Piji Li, Zhenxin Fu, Lidong Bing, Dongyan Zhao, Shuming Shi, Rui Yan. [paper]

Subtasks

Formality Transfer (Informal <-> Formal)

  1. (2018 NAACL) Dear Sir or Madam, May I introduce the YAFC Dataset: Corpus, Benchmarks and Metrics for Formality Style Transfer. Sudha Rao, Joel Tetreault. [paper] [code] [data - Formality ]
  2. (2019 AAAI) Unsupervised Controllable Text Formalization. Parag Jain, Abhijit Mishra, Amar Prakash Azad, Karthik Sankaranarayanan. [paper] [code]
  3. (2019 arXiv) Formality Style Transfer with Hybrid Textual Annotations. Ruochen Xu, Tao Ge, Furu Wei. [paper]
  4. (2019 EMNLP) Domain Adaptive Text Style Transfer. Dianqi Li, Yizhe Zhang, Zhe Gan, Yu Cheng, Chris Brockett, Ming-Ting Sun, Bill Dolan. [paper] [code]
  5. (2019 EMNLP) Harnessing Pre-Trained Neural Networks with Rules for Formality Style Transfer. Yunli Wang, Yu Wu, Lili Mou, Zhoujun Li, Wenhan Chao. [paper] [code]
  6. (2020 COLING) Formality Style Transfer with Shared Latent Space. Yunli Wang, Yu Wu, Lili Mou, Zhoujun Li, Wenhan Chao. [paper] [code]
  7. (2020 ACL) Parallel Data Augmentation for Formality Style Transfer. Yi Zhang, Tao Ge, Xu Sun. [paper] [code]
  8. (2021 NAACL) Olá, Bonjour, Salve! XFORMAL: A Benchmark for Multilingual Formality Style Transfer. Eleftheria Briakou, Di Lu, Ke Zhang and Joel Tetreault. [paper]
  9. (2021 ACL) Improving Formality Style Transfer with Context-Aware Rule Injection. Zonghai Yao and Hong Yu. [paper]
  10. (2021 ACL) Thank you BART! Rewarding Pre-Trained Models Improves Formality Style Transfer. Huiyuan Lai, Antonio Toral and Malvina Nissim. [paper]

Politeness Transfer (Impolite -> Polite)

  1. (2018 TACL) Polite dialogue generation without parallel data. Tong Niu, Mohit Bansal. [paper]
  2. (2020 ACL) Politeness Transfer: A Tag and Generate Approach. Aman Madaan, Amrith Setlur, Tanmay Parekh, Barnabas Poczos, Graham Neubig, Yiming Yang, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Alan W Black, Shrimai Prabhumoye. [paper] [[video](Politeness https://github.com/tag-and-generate/)] [code]

Simplification (Expert <-> Laymen)

Wikipedia simplification:

  1. (2010 COLING) A monolingual tree-based translation model for sentence simplification. Zhemin Zhu, Delphine Bernhard, and Iryna Gurevych. [paper]
  2. (2021 NAACL) Controllable Text Simplification with Explicit Paraphrasing. Mounica Maddela, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Wei Xu. [paper]

Medical text simplication:

  1. (2019 KDD) Unsupervised Clinical Language Translation. Wei-Hung Weng, Yu-An Chung, Peter Szolovits. [paper] Dataset: MIMIC-III (non-parallel) 59K documents.
  2. (2019 WWW) Evaluating neural text simplification in the medical domain. Laurens Van den Bercken, Robert-Jan Sips, Christoph Lofi. [paper] Dataset: 2.2K Expert-to-Layman conversion
  3. (2020 ACL) Expertise Style Transfer: A New Task Towards Better Communication between Experts and Laymen. Yixin Cao, Ruihao Shui, Liangming Pan, Min-Yen Kan, Zhiyuan Liu, Tat-Seng Chua. [paper] [code] [data - MSD (parallel) ] Dataset: MSD (parallel) 114K sentences.
  4. (2021 NAACL) Paragraph-level Simplification of Medical Texts. Ashwin Devaraj, Iain Marshall, Byron Wallace, Junyi Jessy Li. [paper]

Author/Prose Styles

  1. (2012 COLING) Paraphrasing for Style. Wei Xu, Alan Ritter, Bill Dolan, Ralph Grishman, Colin Cherry. [paper]
  2. (2017 EMNLP Workshop) Shakespearizing Modern Language Using Copy-Enriched Sequence to Sequence Models. Harsh Jhamtani, Varun Gangal, Eduard Hovy, Eric Nyberg. [paper] [code]
  3. (2018 Royal Society open science) Evaluating prose style transfer with the Bible. Keith Carlson, Allen Riddell, Daniel Rockmore. [paper] [code] [data - Bible ]
  4. (2020 AAAI) Adapting Language Models for Non-Parallel Author-Stylized Rewriting. Bakhtiyar Syed, Gaurav Verma, Balaji Vasan Srinivasan, Anandhavelu Natarajan, Vasudeva Varma. [paper]

Eye-Catchy Rewriting (Plain -> Attractive)

  1. (2016 EMNLP; plain math problem -> engaging stories) A Theme-Rewriting Approach for Generating Algebra Word Problems. Rik Koncel-Kedziorski, Ioannis Konstas, Luke Zettlemoyer, Hannaneh Hajishirzi. [paper] Dataset: Star Wars script with 7300 words, Cartoon scripts with 1370 words
  2. (2020 ACL) Hooks in the Headline: Learning to Generate Headlines with Controlled Styles. Di Jin, Zhijing Jin, Joey Tianyi Zhou, Lisa Orii, Peter Szolovits. [paper] Dataset: 146K NYT+CNN headlines, 500K humorous sentences, 500K romantic sentences, 500K clickbaity headlines.
  3. (2021 AAAI) The Style-Content Duality of Attractiveness: Learning to Write Eye-Catching Headlines via Disentanglement. Mingzhe Li, Xiuying Chen, Min Yang, Shen Gao, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan. [paper]

Emotion Modification

  1. (2020 ACL Workshop) Challenges in Emotion Style Transfer: An Exploration with a Lexical Substitution Pipeline. David Helbig, Enrica Troiano, Roman Klinger. [paper]
  2. (2021 WWW) Towards Facilitating Empathic Conversations in Online Mental Health Support: A Reinforcement Learning Approach. Ashish Sharma, Inna W. Lin, Adam S. Miner, David C. Atkins, Tim Althoff. [paper]

Detoxification and Debiasing (Toxic/Biased -> Neutral)

  1. (2018 ACL) Fighting Offensive Language on Social Media with Unsupervised Text Style Transfer. Cicero Nogueira dos Santos, Igor Melnyk, Inkit Padhi. [paper]
  2. (2020 AAAI) Automatically Neutralizing Subjective Bias in Text. Reid Pryzant, Richard Diehl Martinez, Nathan Dass, Sadao Kurohashi, Dan Jurafsky, Diyi Yang. [paper] [code]
  3. (2020 COLING) Towards A Friendly Online Community: An Unsupervised Style Transfer Framework for Profanity Redaction. Minh Tran, Yipeng Zhang, Mohammad Soleymani. [paper]
  4. (2020 EMNLP) Unsupervised Controllable Revision for Biased Language Correction. Xinyao Ma, Maarten Sap, Hannah Rashkin, Yejin Choi. [paper]
  5. (2021 ACL Workshop) Methods for Detoxification of Texts for the Russian Language. Daryna Dementieva, Daniil Moskovskiy, Varvara Logacheva, David Dale, Olga Kozlova, Nikita Semenov, Alexander Panchenko. [paper] [code]

Downstream Applications

Machine Translation with Styles

  • (2021 NAACL) Towards Modeling the Style of Translators in Neural Machine Translation. Yue Wang, Cuong Hoang, Marcello Federico. [paper]
  • (2016 NAACL) Controlling Politeness in Neural Machine Translation via Side Constraints. Rico Sennrich, Barry Haddow, Alexandra Birch. [paper]
  • (2017 EMNLP) A Study of Style in Machine Translation: Controlling the Formality of Machine Translation Output. Xing Niu, Marianna Martindale, Marine Carpuat. [paper]

Stylized Dialog/Response Generation

  • Personalizing dialogue agents: I have a dog, do you have pets too?, ACL 2018, [paper]
  • Structuring Latent Spaces for Stylized Response Generation, EMNLP 2019, [paper]
  • Polite Dialogue Generation Without Parallel Data, TACL, [paper]

Summarization with Styles

  • (2020 ACL) Hooks in the Headline: Learning to Generate Headlines with Controlled Styles. Di Jin, Zhijing Jin, Joey Tianyi Zhou, Lisa Orii, Peter Szolovits. [paper]
  • (2021 NAACL) Inference Time Style Control for Summarization. Shuyang Cao and Lu Wang. [paper]

Simile Generation

  • Generating similes effortlessly like a Pro: A Style Transfer Approach for Simile Generation, EMNLP 2020, [paper]

Story Generation with Styles

  • (2021 ACL Findings) Stylized Story Generation with Style-Guided Planning. Xiangzhe Kong, Jialiang Huang, Ziquan Tung, Jian Guan, Minlie Huang. [paper]

Stylized Image Captions

  • StyleNet: Generating attractive visual captions with styles, CVPR 2017, [paper]
  • Unsupervised Stylish Image Description Generation via Domain Layer Norm, AAAI 2019, [paper]

Grammatical Error Correction

  • Grammatical Error Correction and Style Transfer via Zero-shot Monolingual Translation, Arxiv 2019, [paper]

Datasets

  • (2018 NAACL-HLT) Dear Sir or Madam, May I introduce the YAFC Corpus: Corpus, Benchmarks and Metrics for Formality Style Transfer. Sudha Rao, Joel Tetreault. [paper]
  • (2020 AAAI) A Dataset for Low-Resource Stylized Sequence-to-Sequence Generation. Yu Wu, Yunli Wang, Shujie Liu. [paper], [code]
  • (2021 NAACL) Olá, Bonjour, Salve! XFORMAL: A Benchmark for Multilingual Formality Style Transfer. Eleftheria Briakou, Di Lu, Ke Zhang and Joel Tetreault. [paper]
  • (2021 NAACL) StylePTB: A Compositional Benchmark for Fine-grained Controllable Text Style Transfer. Yiwei Lyu, Paul Pu Liang, Hai Pham, Eduard Hovy, Barnabás Póczos, Ruslan Salakhutdinov and Louis-Philippe Morency. [paper]
  • (2021 ACL) Style is NOT a single variable: Case Studies for Cross-Style Language Understanding. Dongyeop Kang, Eduard Hovy. [paper]
  • (2021 VLDB Workshop) Crowdsourcing of Parallel Corpora:the Case of Style Transfer for Detoxification. Daryna Dementieva, Sergey Ustyantsev, David Dale, Olga Kozlova, Nikita Semenov, Alexander Panchenko and Varvara Logacheva [paper] [repo]

Evaluation and Analysis

  1. (2019 NAACL) Evaluating Style Transfer for Text. Remi Mir, Bjarke Felbo, Nick Obradovich, Iyad Rahwan. [paper] [code]
  2. (2019 INLG) Rethinking Text Attribute Transfer: A Lexical Analysis. Yao Fu, Hao Zhou, Jiaze Chen, Lei Li. [paper] [code]
  3. (2019 WNGT) Learning Criteria and Evaluation Metrics for Textual Transfer between Non-Parallel Corpora / Unsupervised Evaluation Metrics and Learning Criteria for Non-Parallel Textual Transfer. Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Kevin Gimpel. [paper]
  4. (2019 arXiv) The Daunting Task of Real-World Textual Style Transfer Auto-Evaluation. Richard Yuanzhe Pang. [paper]
  5. (2018 arXiv) What is wrong with style transfer for texts?. Alexey Tikhonov, Ivan P. Yamshchikov. [paper]
  6. (2020 COLING) Style versus Content: A distinction without a (learnable) difference?. Somayeh Jafaritazehjani, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Damien Lolive, John Kelleher. [paper]
  7. (2021 AAAI) Style-transfer and Paraphrase: Looking for a Sensible Semantic Similarity Metric. Ivan P. Yamshchikov, Viacheslav Shibaev, Nikolay Khlebnikov, Alexey Tikhonov. [paper] [code]
  8. (2021 NAACL Workshop) A Review of Human Evaluation for Style Transfer. Eleftheria Briakou, Sweta Agrawal, Ke Zhang, Joel Tetreault, Marine Carpuat. [paper]

Relevant Fields

Controlled Text Generation (Similar, but not exactly style transfer)

  • Toward Controlled Generation of Text, ICML 2017. [paper]
  • CTRL: A Conditional Transformer Language Model for Controllable Generation, arXiv 2019. [paper]
  • Defending Against Neural Fake News, NeurIPS 2019. (about conditional generation of neural fake news) [paper]
  • Plug and Play Language Models: A Simple Approach to Controlled Text Generation, ICLR 2020. [paper]
  • Exploring Controllable Text Generation Techniques, COLING 2020. [paper]
  • Controllable and Diverse Text Generation in E-commerce, WWW 2021. [paper]
  1. (2021 ICLR Oral) A Distributional Approach to Controlled Text Generation. Muhammad Khalifa, Hady Elsahar, Marc Dymetman. [paper]

Unsupervised Machine Translation

  • Unsupervised neural machine translation, ICLR 2017. [paper]

Image Style Transfer

  • Image style transfer using convolutional neural networks, CVPR 2016, [paper]
  • Image-to-image translation with conditional adversarial networks, CVPR 2017, [paper]
  • Style augmentation: Data augmentation via style randomization, CVPR 2019 Workshop, [paper]

Prototype Editing for Text Generation

  • Retrieve and refine: Improved sequence generation models for dialogue, EMNLP 2018 Workshop, [paper]
  • Guiding neural machine translation with retrieved translation pieces, NAACL 2018, [paper]
  • A retrieve-and-edit framework for predicting structured outputs, NIPS 2018, [paper]
  • Extract and edit: An alternative to back-translation for unsupervised neural machine translation, NAACL 2019, [paper]
  • Simple and effective retrieve-edit-rerank text generation, ACL 2020, [paper]
  • A retrieve-and-rewrite initialization method for unsupervised machine translation, ACL 2020, [paper]

Other Style-Related Papers

  • Controlling Linguistic Style Aspects in Neural Language Generation, EMNLP 2017 Workshop, [paper]
  • Is writing style predictive of scientific fraud?, EMNLP 2017 Workshop, [paper]
  • Adversarial Decomposition of Text Representation, Arxiv, [paper]
  • Transfer Learning for Style-Specific Text Generation, UNK 2018, [paper]
  • Generating lyrics with variational autoencoder and multi-modal artist embeddings, Arxiv 2018, [paper]
  • Generating Sentences by Editing Prototypes, TACL 2018, [paper]
  • ALTER: Auxiliary Text Rewriting Tool for Natural Language Generation, EMNLP 2019, [paper]
  • Stylized Text Generation Using Wasserstein Autoencoders with a Mixture of Gaussian Prior, Arxiv 2019, [paper]
  • Complementary Auxiliary Classifiers for Label-Conditional Text Generation, AAAI 2020, [paper], [code]
  • Exploring Contextual Word-level Style Relevance for Unsupervised Style Transfer, ACL 2020, [paper]

Other Resources

Review and Thesis

  • (2018 JMLR) Survey of the State of the Art in Natural LanguageGeneration: Core tasks, applications and evaluation. Albert Gatt, Emiel Krahmer. [paper (Section 5-6 are related to styles in text)]
  • (2020 arXiv) Text Style Transfer: A Review and Experiment Evaluation. Zhiqiang Hu, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Charu C. Aggarwal, Aston Zhang. [paper]
  • (2020) Controllable Text Generation: Should machines reflect the way humans interact in society? Shrimai Prabhumoye. [paper] [slides]

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