This study is devoted to the automatic generation of German drama texts. We suggest an approach consisting of two key steps: fine-tuning a GPT-2 model (the outline model) to generate outlines of scenes based on keywords and fine-tuning a second model (the generation model) to generate scenes from the scene outline. The input for the neural model comprises two datasets: the German Drama Corpus (GerDraCor) and German Text Archive (Deutsches Textarchiv or DTA). In order to estimate the effectiveness of the proposed method, our models are compared with baseline GPT-2 models. Our models perform well according to automatic quantitative evaluation, but, conversely, manual qualitative analysis reveals a poor quality of generated texts. This may be due to the quality of the dataset or training inputs.
@article{arxiv.2301.03119,
title = {Automatic Generation of German Drama Texts Using Fine Tuned GPT-2 Models},
author = {Mariam Bangura and Kristina Barabashova and Anna Karnysheva and Sarah Semczuk and Yifan Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.03119},
year = {2023}
}