SC2: Towards Enhancing Content Preservation and Style Consistency in Long Text Style Transfer (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for short TST are difficult to implement and can cause content degradation. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to vary the style polarity of text while preserving semantic content. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves over baselines and is highly efficient. |
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