Unsupervised Graph-Text Mutual Conversion with a Unified Pretrained Language Model
Yi Xu, Shuqian Sheng, Jiexing Qi, Luoyi Fu, Zhouhan Lin, Xinbing Wang, Chenghu Zhou
Abstract
Graph-to-text (G2T) generation and text-to-graph (T2G) triple extraction are two essential tasks for knowledge graphs. Existing unsupervised approaches become suitable candidates for jointly learning the two tasks due to their avoidance of using graph-text parallel data. However, they adopt multiple complex modules and still require entity information or relation type for training. To this end, we propose INFINITY, a simple yet effective unsupervised method with a unified pretrained language model that does not introduce external annotation tools or additional parallel information. It achieves fully unsupervised graph-text mutual conversion for the first time. Specifically, INFINITY treats both G2T and T2G as a bidirectional sequence generation task by fine-tuning only one pretrained seq2seq model. A novel back-translation-based framework is then designed to generate synthetic parallel data automatically. Besides, we investigate the impact of graph linearization and introduce the structure-aware fine-tuning strategy to alleviate possible performance deterioration via retaining structural information in graph sequences. As a fully unsupervised framework, INFINITY is empirically verified to outperform state-of-the-art baselines for G2T and T2G tasks. Additionally, we also devise a new training setting called cross learning for low-resource unsupervised information extraction.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.acl-long.281
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Toronto, Canada
- Editors:
- Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 5130–5144
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.281
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.281
- Cite (ACL):
- Yi Xu, Shuqian Sheng, Jiexing Qi, Luoyi Fu, Zhouhan Lin, Xinbing Wang, and Chenghu Zhou. 2023. Unsupervised Graph-Text Mutual Conversion with a Unified Pretrained Language Model. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 5130–5144, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Unsupervised Graph-Text Mutual Conversion with a Unified Pretrained Language Model (Xu et al., ACL 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/emnlp22-frontmatter/2023.acl-long.281.pdf