Colas, A;
Ma, H;
He, X;
Bai, Y;
Wang, DZ;
(2023)
Can Knowledge Graphs Simplify Text?
In:
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings.
(pp. pp. 379-389).
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
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Abstract
Knowledge Graph (KG)-to-Text Generation has seen recent improvements in generating fluent and informative sentences which describe a given KG. As KGs are widespread across multiple domains and contain important entity-relation information, and as text simplification aims to reduce the complexity of a text while preserving the meaning of the original text, we propose KGSimple, a novel approach to unsupervised text simplification which infuses KG-established techniques in order to construct a simplified KG path and generate a concise text which preserves the original input's meaning. Through an iterative and sampling KG-first approach, our model is capable of simplifying text when starting from a KG by learning to keep important information while harnessing KG-to-text generation to output fluent and descriptive sentences. We evaluate various settings of the KGSimple model on currently-available KG-to-text datasets, demonstrating its effectiveness compared to unsupervised text simplification models which start with a given complex text. Our code is available on GitHub.
Type: | Proceedings paper |
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Title: | Can Knowledge Graphs Simplify Text? |
Event: | CIKM '23: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management |
ISBN-13: | 979-8-4007-0124-5 |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1145/3583780.3615514 |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3583780.3615514 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
Keywords: | Knowledge Graph; Data-to-Text; Natural Language Generation; Text Simplification; KG-to-Text; Simulated Annealing |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10183638 |
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