German Gpt2 Easy

🚀 GPT2 model for German Leichte Sprache (Easy language)

A German Leichte Sprache (Easy language) model based on german - gpt2, aiming to simplify German text generation.

🚀 Quick Start

This is a German Leichte Sprache (Easy language) model. You can access our code and paper through the following links:

• Code: https://github.com/MiriUll/Language-Models-German-Simplification
• Paper: Language Models for German Text Simplification: Overcoming Parallel Data Scarcity through Style - specific Pre - training

📚 Documentation

Dataset

This model was fine - tuned on a collection of monolingual Leichte Sprache data. The corpus can be recreated here.

Citation

If you use this model, please cite our paper:

@inproceedings{anschutz-etal-2023-language,
    title = "Language Models for {G}erman Text Simplification: Overcoming Parallel Data Scarcity through Style-specific Pre-training",
    author = {Ansch{\"u}tz, Miriam  and Oehms, Joshua  and Wimmer, Thomas  and Jezierski, Bart{\l}omiej  and Groh, Georg},
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023",
    month = jul,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Toronto, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.74",
    pages = "1147--1158",
}

📄 License

The model is under the OpenRail++ license.