Petition Generator

A silly project to generate UK government style petitions via a GPT-2 transformer.

You can view the generated petitions here: https://elleo.github.io/petition_generator/

Generating output

To generate your own output you can download a pretrained checkpoint from the releases section and unpack it in the project directory, or train yourself (see below)

Install the requirements by running pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Then simply run ./generate.py to output a petition

The generate_json.py script can be used to add additional entries to the pregenerated.json file which is used by the HTML viewer.

Training

To train the model ensure you've checked out the uk_petitions_data submodule by running git submodule update --init

Then just run ./train.py

HTML viewer

To use the HTML viewer locally you'll need to start a HTTP server. This can be done by running python3 -m http.server in the petition_generator directory. The viewer will then be accessible at http://localhost:8000