{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/evaluating-prose-style-transfer-with-the","title":"Evaluating prose style transfer with the Bible","arxiv_id":"1711.04731","date":"2017-11-13","proceeding":null,"authors":["Keith Carlson","Allen Riddell","Daniel Rockmore"],"abstract":"In the prose style transfer task a system, provided with text input and a\ntarget prose style, produces output which preserves the meaning of the input\ntext but alters the style. These systems require parallel data for evaluation\nof results and usually make use of parallel data for training. Currently, there\nare few publicly available corpora for this task. In this work, we identify a\nhigh-quality source of aligned, stylistically distinct text in different\nversions of the Bible. We provide a standardized split, into training,\ndevelopment and testing data, of the public domain versions in our corpus. This\ncorpus is highly parallel since many Bible versions are included. Sentences are\naligned due to the presence of chapter and verse numbers within all versions of\nthe text. In addition to the corpus, we present the results, as measured by the\nBLEU and PINC metrics, of several models trained on our data which can serve as\nbaselines for future research. While we present these data as a style transfer\ncorpus, we believe that it is of unmatched quality and may be useful for other\nnatural language tasks as well.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1711.04731v2","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.04731v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"evaluating-prose-style-transfer-with-the","repo_url":"https://github.com/keithecarlson/StyleTransferBibleData","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"tf","reach":{"status":"ok"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"style-transfer","task_name":"Style Transfer"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1711.04731","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}