{"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/shakespearizing-modern-language-using-copy-1","title":"Shakespearizing Modern Language Using Copy-Enriched Sequence-to-Sequence Models","arxiv_id":"1707.01161","date":"2017-07-04","proceeding":null,"authors":["Harsh Jhamtani","Varun Gangal","Eduard Hovy","Eric Nyberg"],"abstract":"Variations in writing styles are commonly used to adapt the content to a\nspecific context, audience, or purpose. However, applying stylistic variations\nis still by and large a manual process, and there have been little efforts\ntowards automating it. In this paper we explore automated methods to transform\ntext from modern English to Shakespearean English using an end to end trainable\nneural model with pointers to enable copy action. To tackle limited amount of\nparallel data, we pre-train embeddings of words by leveraging external\ndictionaries mapping Shakespearean words to modern English words as well as\nadditional text. Our methods are able to get a BLEU score of 31+, an\nimprovement of ~6 points above the strongest baseline. We publicly release our\ncode to foster further research in this area.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1707.01161v2","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.01161v2.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":"shakespearizing-modern-language-using-copy-1","repo_url":"https://github.com/harsh19/Shakespearizing-Modern-English","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"tf","reach":{"status":"unanswered"}},{"paper_slug":"shakespearizing-modern-language-using-copy-1","repo_url":"https://github.com/achyutak/Project-2021","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":{"status":"unanswered"}}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1707.01161","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}