Marie Nováková

Also published as: Marie Novakova


2022

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THEaiTRobot: An Interactive Tool for Generating Theatre Play Scripts
Rudolf Rosa | Patrícia Schmidtová | Alisa Zakhtarenko | Ondrej Dusek | Tomáš Musil | David Mareček | Saad Ul Islam | Marie Novakova | Klara Vosecka | Daniel Hrbek | David Kostak
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Natural Language Generation: System Demonstrations

We present a free online demo of THEaiTRobot, an open-source bilingual tool for interactively generating theatre play scripts, in two versions. THEaiTRobot 1.0 uses the GPT-2 language model with minimal adjustments. THEaiTRobot 2.0 uses two models created by fine-tuning GPT-2 on purposefully collected and processed datasets and several other components, generating play scripts in a hierarchical fashion (title synopsis script). The underlying tool is used in the THEaiTRE project to generate scripts for plays, which are then performed on stage by a professional theatre.

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GPT-2-based Human-in-the-loop Theatre Play Script Generation
Rudolf Rosa | Patrícia Schmidtová | Ondřej Dušek | Tomáš Musil | David Mareček | Saad Obaid | Marie Nováková | Klára Vosecká | Josef Doležal
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop of Narrative Understanding (WNU2022)

We experiment with adapting generative language models for the generation of long coherent narratives in the form of theatre plays. Since fully automatic generation of whole plays is not currently feasible, we created an interactive tool that allows a human user to steer the generation somewhat while minimizing intervention. We pursue two approaches to long-text generation: a flat generation with summarization of context, and a hierarchical text-to-text two-stage approach, where a synopsis is generated first and then used to condition generation of the final script. Our preliminary results and discussions with theatre professionals show improvements over vanilla language model generation, but also identify important limitations of our approach.