Papers with TST
MultiParaDetox: Extending Text Detoxification with Parallel Data to New Languages (2024.naacl-short)
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| Challenge: | Text detoxification is a textual style transfer task where a toxic text is paraphrased to the neutral register. |
| Approach: | They propose to extend ParaDetox pipeline to multiple languages to automate parallel detoxification corpus collection. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods have been used in toxic speech combating and toxic speech fighting tasks. |
Distilling Text Style Transfer With Self-Explanation From LLMs (2024.naacl-srw)
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| Challenge: | Text Style Transfer (TST) aims to alter the style of text while preserving its core content. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that leverages large language models alongside chain-of-thought prompting to facilitate TST. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework surpasses supervised fine-tuning and knowledge distillation methods in low-resource settings. |
A Corpus and Method for Chinese Named Entity Recognition in Manufacturing (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing resources and techniques for named entity recognition (NER) for manufacturing-specific named entities are limited. |
| Approach: | They propose a corpus of Chinese manufacturing specifications, named MS-NERC, with 4,424 sentences and 16,383 entities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms neural methods in few-shot and rich-resource domains. |
Evaluating Text Style Transfer Evaluation: Are There Any Reliable Metrics? (2025.naacl-srw)
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| Challenge: | Text style transfer (TST) is a multidimensional task requiring the assessment of style transfer accuracy, content preservation, and naturalness. |
| Approach: | They propose to use text style transfer metrics to evaluate outputs of text editors . they also investigate the potential of large language models as tools for TST evaluation . |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods provide better insights than existing metrics, the authors show . their meta-evaluation through correlation with hu-man judgments shows they are effective . |
Audience-Centric Natural Language Generation via Style Infusion (2022.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to text style transfer (TST) with large volumes of parallel or non-parallel data are limiting for two reasons: it is difficult to collect large volumes and some stylistic objectives are hard to define without audience feedback. |
| Approach: | They propose a task of style infusion - infusing stylistic preferences of audiences into pretrained language generation models by leveraging pairwise human judgments to bootstrap a style analysis model and augment a seed set of judgments. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method generates compelling stylized examples with generic text prompts while balancing fluency and style adoption. |
Reusing Transferable Weight Increments for Low-resource Style Generation (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Text style transfer (TST) is crucial in natural language processing, aiming to endow text with a new style without altering its meaning. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to use style features in weight increments to transfer low-resource styles effectively. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves remarkable performance across different backbones, achieving particularly effective results in low-resource scenarios. |
Text Style Transfer via Optimal Transport (2022.naacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Text style transfer (TST) is a task that aims to change the style of a text from source to target while preserving its content. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to incorporate syntactic and semantic information into similarity computation between the source and the converted text. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is superior in both supervised and unsupervised settings. |
Low Resource Style Transfer via Domain Adaptive Meta Learning (2022.naacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing unsupervised text style transfer methods suffer from performance degradation when fine-tuning the model in new domains. |
| Approach: | They propose a domain adaptive meta-learning approach with an adversarial style training approach for better content preservation and style transfer. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach generalizes well on unseen low-resource domains against ten strong baselines. |
AMR-TST: Abstract Meaning Representation-based Text Style Transfer (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) is a semantic representation that can enhance natural language generation (NLG) by providing a logical semantic input. |
| Approach: | They propose an AMR-based text style transfer technique that converts source text to an AML graph and generates transferred text based on the AMR graph modified by a TST policy named style rewriting. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art results compared with baseline models in automatic and human evaluations. |
Neuron Activation Modulation for Text Style Transfer: Guiding Large Language Models (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Text style transfer (TST) aims to flexibly adjust the style of text while preserving its core content. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that aligns activation values of style-related neurons with those of the target style to guide the model in performing the transfer. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method significantly improves style transfer quality while preserving core content. |
Text Style Transfer with Contrastive Transfer Pattern Mining (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for text style transfer only focus on the transformation between styles, yet they do not take into account that this transformation can be achieved via different hidden transfer patterns. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel approach which automatically mines hidden transfer patterns to improve TST . they use a clustering module to automatically discover hidden transfer pattern from the data . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can be applied in a plug-and-play manner to enhance other methods to further improve their performance. |
Multilingual and Explainable Text Detoxification with Parallel Corpora (2025.coling-main)
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Daryna Dementieva, Nikolay Babakov, Amit Ronen, Abinew Ali Ayele, Naquee Rizwan, Florian Schneider, Xintong Wang, Seid Muhie Yimam, Daniil Alekhseevich Moskovskiy, Elisei Stakovskii, Eran Kaufman, Ashraf Elnagar, Animesh Mukherjee, Alexander Panchenko
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to manage toxic speech on social platforms are limited . however, there is a need for more proactive moderation of abusive speech. |
| Approach: | They extend parallel text detoxification corpus to new languages to test the approach . they propose a method that combines toxic and non-toxic sentences into a more neutral form . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method integrates the descriptive features of toxic and non-toxic sentences into a more neutral or non- toxic form. |
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. |
COUNT: COntrastive UNlikelihood Text Style Transfer for Text Detoxification (2023.findings-emnlp)
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Mohammad Mahdi Abdollah Pour, Parsa Farinneya, Manasa Bharadwaj, Nikhil Verma, Ali Pesaranghader, Scott Sanner
| Challenge: | Text detoxification is a task to ensure the generation of non-toxic and safe text. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel contrastive unlikelihood objective that combines rephrasing and identity mapping to effectively isolate and focus learning on non-toxic style transfer. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves significant improvements in fluency, content preservation, and detoxification on two parallel datasets. |
T-STAR: Truthful Style Transfer using AMR Graph as Intermediate Representation (2022.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Unavailability of parallel corpora for training text style transfer models is a challenge but common . a large corpus of parallel data is not available for text style transfers . |
| Approach: | They propose to use AMR as an intermediate style agnostic representation to train TST models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models in the style agnostic task. |
TSTR: Target Similarity Tuning Meets the Real World (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Target similarity tuning (TST) is a method of selecting relevant examples in natural language (NL) to code generation through large language models (LLMs). |
| Approach: | They propose to use sentences from a larger language model to improve similarity between two NL inputs and associated code outputs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can be trained on a small number of training examples and is cost-effective. |
A Call for Standardization and Validation of Text Style Transfer Evaluation (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Text style transfer (TST) evaluation is inconsistent in practice. |
| Approach: | They conduct a meta-analysis on human and automated TST evaluation and experimentation . they find a standardization gap and a validation gap in the field . |
| Outcome: | The authors find that evaluation procedures are inconsistent and that they need to improve on them. |
Tuning Less, Prompting More: In-Context Preference Learning Pipeline for Natural Language Transformation (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to natural language transformation (NLT) tasks face significant challenges, such as the computational costs of leveraging large pre-trained models and the limited generalization ability of fine-tuned smaller models. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that combines prompting with fine-tuning to enhance smaller models by integrating In-Context Examples from retrieval. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing methods across MT and TST tasks. |
Style-Specific Neurons for Steering LLMs in Text Style Transfer (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing LLMs tend to prioritize preserving original meaning over enhancing stylistic differences in TST. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel approach to steering LLMs using style-specific neurons in TST. |
| Outcome: | Empirical results show that the proposed method improves the fluency of the generated text. |
TST: A Schema-Based Top-Down and Dynamic-Aware Agent of Text-to-Table Tasks (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to extract text content based on static table structures neglect to deal with precise inner-document evidence extraction and dynamic information such as multiple entities and events. |
| Approach: | They propose a dynamic content extraction agent framework that uses type recognition to extract context evidences with the conduction of domain schema sequentially. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework exhibits state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on a large dataset. |
A Decoupled Multi-Agent Framework for Complex Text Style Transfer (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing models for text style transfer struggle with complex styles . existing models perform well on simple styles like sentiment and formality . |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-agent self-check framework that includes a large language model as a planner for disentangling subtasks and expert agents for executing the subtask. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework significantly improves style strength and content preservation on simple and complex style datasets. |
Text Style Transfer Evaluation Using Large Language Models (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated their capacity to match and even exceed average human performance across diverse, unseen tasks. |
| Approach: | They compare the results of different LLMs in TST evaluation using multiple input prompts and introduce the concept of prompt ensembling. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms human evaluations on multiple input prompts. |