Text Style Transfer: An Introductory Overview

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.14822v1
• Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2024 09:54:55 GMT
• Title: Text Style Transfer: An Introductory Overview
• Authors: Sourabrata Mukherjee, Ondrej Dušek,
• Abstract summary: Text Style Transfer (TST) is a pivotal task in natural language generation to manipulate text style attributes while preserving style-independent content. The attributes targeted in TST can vary widely, including politeness, authorship, mitigation of offensive language, modification of feelings, and adjustment of text formality. This paper provides an introductory overview of TST, addressing its challenges, existing approaches, datasets, evaluation measures, subtasks, and applications.
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• Abstract: Text Style Transfer (TST) is a pivotal task in natural language generation to manipulate text style attributes while preserving style-independent content. The attributes targeted in TST can vary widely, including politeness, authorship, mitigation of offensive language, modification of feelings, and adjustment of text formality. TST has become a widely researched topic with substantial advancements in recent years. This paper provides an introductory overview of TST, addressing its challenges, existing approaches, datasets, evaluation measures, subtasks, and applications. This fundamental overview improves understanding of the background and fundamentals of text style transfer.

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