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Balancing the Style-Content Trade-Off in Sentiment Transfer Using Polarity-Aware Denoising

22 Dec 2023arXiv:2312.14708archive 2025-07-28

Sourabrata Mukherjee, Zdeněk Kasner, Ondřej Dušek

Text sentiment transfer aims to flip the sentiment polarity of a sentence (positive to negative or vice versa) while preserving its sentiment-independent content. Although current models show good results at changing the sentiment, content preservation in transferred sentences is insufficient. In this paper, we present a sentiment transfer model based on polarity-aware denoising, which accurately controls the sentiment attributes in generated text, preserving the content to a great extent and helping to balance the style-content trade-off. Our proposed model is structured around two key stages in the sentiment transfer process: better representation learning using a shared encoder and sentiment-controlled generation using separate sentiment-specific decoders. Empirical results show that our methods outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in terms of content preservation while staying competitive in terms of style transfer accuracy and fluency.

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