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most citedMulti-Figurative Language Generation

4 citations · 5 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CL2024

Towards Tailored Recovery of Lexical Diversity in Literary Machine Translation

Esther Ploeger, Huiyuan Lai, Rik van Noord +1

Machine translations are found to be lexically poorer than human translations. The loss of lexical diversity through MT poses an issue in the automatic translation of literature, w…

cs.CL20224 cited

Multi-Figurative Language Generation

Huiyuan Lai, Malvina Nissim

Figurative language generation is the task of reformulating a given text in the desired figure of speech while still being faithful to the original context. We take the first step…

cs.CL2022

Human Judgement as a Compass to Navigate Automatic Metrics for Formality Transfer

Huiyuan Lai, Jiali Mao, Antonio Toral +1

Although text style transfer has witnessed rapid development in recent years, there is as yet no established standard for evaluation, which is performed using several automatic met…

cs.CL20221 cited

Multilingual Pre-training with Language and Task Adaptation for Multilingual Text Style Transfer

Huiyuan Lai, Antonio Toral, Malvina Nissim

We exploit the pre-trained seq2seq model mBART for multilingual text style transfer. Using machine translated data as well as gold aligned English sentences yields state-of-the-art…

cs.CL2021

Generic resources are what you need: Style transfer tasks without task-specific parallel training data

Huiyuan Lai, Antonio Toral, Malvina Nissim

Style transfer aims to rewrite a source text in a different target style while preserving its content. We propose a novel approach to this task that leverages generic resources, an…

cs.CL2021

Thank you BART! Rewarding Pre-Trained Models Improves Formality Style Transfer

Huiyuan Lai, Antonio Toral, Malvina Nissim

Scarcity of parallel data causes formality style transfer models to have scarce success in preserving content. We show that fine-tuning pre-trained language (GPT-2) and sequence-to…