tum-nlp/german-gpt2_easy

GPT2 model for German Leichte Sprache (Easy language)

A German Leichte Sprache (Easy language) model based on german-gpt2.

See our code here: https://github.com/MiriUll/Language-Models-German-Simplification
See our paper here: Language Models for German Text Simplification: Overcoming Parallel Data Scarcity through Style-specific Pre-training

Dataset

This model was fine-tuned on a collection of monolingual Leichte Sprache data. This 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",
}