The understanding of Shakespeare is a popular topic, especially with English students. However, it can prove difficult to capture its meaning. That's why Svyatoslav and Éléa have tried to implement a two-way modern to Shakespearean English translator. The translations are, alas, not very close, so the end product is a Shakespearean text generator. Their final model got a BLEU score of about 46 and generates somewhat related Shakespearean sentences from a modern English source. It was implemented following a transformer encoder-decoder with attention model trained on sentence pairs scraped from 21 plays of SparkNotes' No Fear Shakespeare side-by-side translations. That is, approximately 60,000 lines of Shakespearean text and the corresponding 60,000 modern equivalents.
Shakespearean English Generator
Input an English sentence, and enjoy the gibberish that comes out! Originally it was a translator, but it doesn't really translate, rather it makes up whatever it wants to spite its mortal creators.
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