“Politeness Transfer: A Tag and Generate Approach”, 2020-04-29 (; backlinks; similar):
This paper introduces a new task of politeness transfer which involves converting non-polite sentences to polite sentences while preserving the meaning.
We design a tag and generate pipeline that identifies stylistic attributes and subsequently generates a sentence in the target style while preserving most of the source content. For politeness as well as 5 other transfer tasks, our model outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on automatic metrics for content preservation, with a comparable or better performance on style transfer accuracy.
Additionally, our model surpasses existing methods on human evaluations for grammaticality, meaning preservation, and transfer accuracy across all the 6 style transfer tasks.
The data and code is located at Github.