GAP: A Graph-aware Language Model Framework for Knowledge Graph-to-Text Generation

Anthony Colas, Mehrdad Alvandipour, Daisy Zhe Wang


Abstract
Recent improvements in KG-to-text generation are due to additional auxiliary pre-training tasks designed to give the fine-tune task a boost in performance. These tasks require extensive computational resources while only suggesting marginal improvements. Here, we demonstrate that by fusing graph-aware elements into existing pre-trained language models, we are able to outperform state-of-the-art models and close the gap imposed by additional pre-training tasks. We do so by proposing a mask structure to capture neighborhood information and a novel type encoder that adds a bias to the graph-attention weights depending on the connection type. Experiments on two KG-to-text benchmark datasets show our models are competitive while involving fewer parameters and no additional pre-training tasks. By formulating the problem as a framework, we can interchange the various proposed components and begin interpreting KG-to-text generative models based on the topological and type information found in a graph.
Anthology ID:
2022.coling-1.506
Volume:
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Month:
October
Year:
2022
Address:
Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
Editors:
Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lucia Donatelli, Heng Ji, Sadao Kurohashi, Patrizia Paggio, Nianwen Xue, Seokhwan Kim, Younggyun Hahm, Zhong He, Tony Kyungil Lee, Enrico Santus, Francis Bond, Seung-Hoon Na
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COLING
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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5755–5769
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.506
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Anthony Colas, Mehrdad Alvandipour, and Daisy Zhe Wang. 2022. GAP: A Graph-aware Language Model Framework for Knowledge Graph-to-Text Generation. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 5755–5769, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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GAP: A Graph-aware Language Model Framework for Knowledge Graph-to-Text Generation (Colas et al., COLING 2022)
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 acolas1/GAP_COLING2022
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