From Theories on Styles to their Transfer in Text: Bridging the Gap with a Hierarchical Survey. (arXiv:2110.15871v5 [cs.CL] UPDATED)

Humans are naturally endowed with the ability to write in a particular style.
They can, for instance, re-phrase a formal letter in an informal way, convey a
literal message with the use of figures of speech or edit a novel by mimicking
the style of some well-known authors. Automating this form of creativity
constitutes the goal of style transfer. As a natural language generation task,
style transfer aims at rewriting existing texts, and specifically, it creates
paraphrases that exhibit some …

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