AMR-TST: Abstract Meaning Representation-based Text Style Transfer

Kaize Shi, Xueyao Sun, Li He, Dingxian Wang, Qing Li, Guandong Xu


Abstract
Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) is a semantic representation that can enhance natural language generation (NLG) by providing a logical semantic input. In this paper, we propose the AMR-TST, an AMR-based text style transfer (TST) technique. The AMR-TST converts the source text to an AMR graph and generates the transferred text based on the AMR graph modified by a TST policy named style rewriting. Our method combines both the explainability and diversity of explicit and implicit TST methods. The experiments show that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art results compared with other baseline models in automatic and human evaluations. The generated transferred text in qualitative evaluation proves the AMR-TST have significant advantages in keeping semantic features and reducing hallucinations. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first to apply the AMR method focusing on node-level features to the TST task.
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2023.findings-acl.260
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
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July
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2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki
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4231–4243
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10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.260
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Kaize Shi, Xueyao Sun, Li He, Dingxian Wang, Qing Li, and Guandong Xu. 2023. AMR-TST: Abstract Meaning Representation-based Text Style Transfer. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, pages 4231–4243, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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