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يمكن أن تكشف نمط النص أن يكشف السمات الحساسة للمؤلف (E.G. العمر والسباق) للقارئ، والذي يمكن، بدوره، يؤدي إلى انتهاكات الخصوصية والتحيز في كل من القرارات البشرية والخضارات على أساس النص. على سبيل المثال، قد تكشف أسلوب الكتابة في تطبيقات الوظائف عن سمات المرشح المحمية التي يمكن أن تؤدي إلى التحيز في اتخاذ القرارات، بغض النظر عما إذا كانت القرارات التوصية مجددا أو من قبل البشر. نقترح إطارا أساسيا يستند إلى VAE يهدف إلى توضيح الملامح الأسلوبية للنص الذي تم إنشاؤه بشريا من خلال نقل النمط، عن طريق إعادة كتابة النص نفسه تلقائيا. نقدي، يعمل إطار عملنا على فكرة النمط الذي تم توعيته بطريقة مرنة تمكن مفاهيمين متميزين من النمط المباشر: (1) الحد الأدنى من الفكرة التي تتقاطع بشكل فعال أن الأنماط المختلفة التي شوهدت في التدريب، و (2) مفهوم أقصى يسعى إلى التباطؤ بإضافة ميزات أسلوبية لجميع السمات الحساسة إلى النص، ساري المفعول، حوسبة نقابة الأساليب. يمكن استخدام إطار عملنا النمط الخاص بنا لأغراض متعددة، ومع ذلك، فإننا نوضح فعاليته في تحسين نزاهة المصب المصب. نقوم أيضا بإجراء دراسة شاملة عن تأثير تجمع الأنماط على الطلاقة والاتساق الدلالي، وإزالة السمة من النص، في اثنين وثلاث نقل نمط النطاق.
Text style can reveal sensitive attributes of the author (e.g. age and race) to the reader, which can, in turn, lead to privacy violations and bias in both human and algorithmic decisions based on text. For example, the style of writing in job applications might reveal protected attributes of the candidate which could lead to bias in hiring decisions, regardless of whether hiring decisions are made algorithmically or by humans. We propose a VAE-based framework that obfuscates stylistic features of human-generated text through style transfer, by automatically re-writing the text itself. Critically, our framework operationalizes the notion of obfuscated style in a flexible way that enables two distinct notions of obfuscated style: (1) a minimal notion that effectively intersects the various styles seen in training, and (2) a maximal notion that seeks to obfuscate by adding stylistic features of all sensitive attributes to text, in effect, computing a union of styles. Our style-obfuscation framework can be used for multiple purposes, however, we demonstrate its effectiveness in improving the fairness of downstream classifiers. We also conduct a comprehensive study on style-pooling's effect on fluency, semantic consistency, and attribute removal from text, in two and three domain style transfer.
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In most cases, the lack of parallel corpora makes it impossible to directly train supervised models for the text style transfer task. In this paper, we explore training algorithms that instead optimize reward functions that explicitly consider differ
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changes (e.g. positive to negative), which enable controllability at a high level but do not offer fine-grained control involving sentence structure, emphasis, and content of the sentence. In this paper, we introduce a large-scale benchmark, StylePTB, with (1) paired sentences undergoing 21 fine-grained stylistic changes spanning atomic lexical, syntactic, semantic, and thematic transfers of text, as well as (2) compositions of multiple transfers which allow modeling of fine-grained stylistic changes as building blocks for more complex, high-level transfers. By benchmarking existing methods on StylePTB, we find that they struggle to model fine-grained changes and have an even more difficult time composing multiple styles. As a result, StylePTB brings novel challenges that we hope will encourage future research in controllable text style transfer, compositional models, and learning disentangled representations. Solving these challenges would present important steps towards controllable text generation.
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