Rich Syntactic and Semantic Information Helps Unsupervised Text Style Transfer

Hongyu Gong, Linfeng Song, Suma Bhat
2020 International Conference on Natural Language Generation  
Text style transfer aims to change an input sentence to an output sentence by changing its text style while preserving the content. Previous efforts on unsupervised text style transfer only use the surface features of words and sentences. As a result, the transferred sentences may either have inaccurate or missing information compared to the inputs. We address this issue by explicitly enriching the inputs via syntactic and semantic structures, from which richer features are then extracted to
more » ... ter capture the original information. Experiments on two text-style-transfer tasks show that our approach improves the content preservation of a strong unsupervised baseline model thereby demonstrating improved transfer performance.
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