Inducing Positive Perspectives with Text Reframing

Understand

Sentiment transfer is one popular example of a text style transfer task, where the goal is to reverse the sentiment polarity of a text.

• With a sentiment reversal comes also a reversal in meaning.
• We introduce a different but related task called positive reframing in which we neutralize a negative point of view and generate a more positive perspective for the author without contradicting the original meaning.
• Our insistence on meaning preservation makes positive reframing a challenging and semantically rich task.