Haoran Sun
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2026
Visual and Memory–Augmented Soccer Commentary Generation
Haoran Sun | Natthawut Kertkeidkachorn | Kiyoaki Shirai
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Haoran Sun | Natthawut Kertkeidkachorn | Kiyoaki Shirai
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Automatic soccer commentary generation aims to bridge the gap between raw visual content and professional, tactical commentary. However, existing datasets tend to produce incomplete commentary that lacks semantic richness and fails to convey the full visual information present in standard video clips. To address these limitations, we propose two manually curated datasets: SN-Short, which enhances scene-level semantic descriptions, and SN-Long, which captures event continuity for context-aware commentary.Based on these, we design a commentary augmentation pipeline that transforms incomplete annotations into MatchText, a semantically complete and structurally standardized dataset. Leveraging this supervision, we introduce MatchAware, a generation model that incorporates contextual cues from previous events to produce coherent commentary aligned with the visual flow of the game. Experimental results show that proposed approach significantly outperforms existing baselines on the constructed datasets.