{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/can-knowledge-graphs-simplify-text","title":"Can Knowledge Graphs Simplify Text?","arxiv_id":"2308.06975","date":"2023-08-14","proceeding":null,"authors":["Anthony Colas","Haodi Ma","Xuanli He","Yang Bai","Daisy Zhe Wang"],"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.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06975v3","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.06975v3.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"can-knowledge-graphs-simplify-text","repo_url":"https://github.com/acolas1/kgsimple","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"descriptive","task_name":"Descriptive"},{"task_slug":"kg-to-text","task_name":"KG-to-Text Generation"},{"task_slug":"knowledge-graphs","task_name":"Knowledge Graphs"},{"task_slug":"text-generation","task_name":"Text Generation"},{"task_slug":"text-simplification","task_name":"Text Simplification"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}