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Can Knowledge Graphs Simplify Text?

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) Green open access

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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
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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