DRAG: Director-Generator Language Modelling Framework for Non-Parallel Author Stylized Rewriting

Hrituraj Singh, Gaurav Verma, Aparna Garimella, Balaji Vasan Srinivasan
2021 Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume   unpublished
Author stylized rewriting is the task of rewriting an input text in a particular author's style. Recent works in this area have leveraged Transformer-based language models in a denoising autoencoder setup to generate author stylized text without relying on a parallel corpus of data. However, these approaches are limited by the lack of explicit control of target attributes and being entirely data-driven. In this paper, we propose a Director-Generator framework to rewrite content in the target
more » ... hor's style, specifically focusing on certain target attributes. We show that our proposed framework works well even with a limitedsized target author corpus. Our experiments on corpora consisting of relatively small-sized text authored by three distinct authors show significant improvements upon existing works to rewrite input texts in target author's style. Our quantitative and qualitative analyses further show that our model has better meaning retention and results in more fluent generations.
doi:10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-main.73 fatcat:dgifon2jmnbnnnladuljz6odfi