{"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/unsupervised-text-generation-from-structured","title":"An Unsupervised Joint System for Text Generation from Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Parsing","arxiv_id":"1904.09447","date":"2019-04-20","proceeding":"EMNLP 2020 11","authors":["Martin Schmitt","Sahand Sharifzadeh","Volker Tresp","Hinrich Schütze"],"abstract":"Knowledge graphs (KGs) can vary greatly from one domain to another. Therefore supervised approaches to both graph-to-text generation and text-to-graph knowledge extraction (semantic parsing) will always suffer from a shortage of domain-specific parallel graph-text data; at the same time, adapting a model trained on a different domain is often impossible due to little or no overlap in entities and relations. This situation calls for an approach that (1) does not need large amounts of annotated data and thus (2) does not need to rely on domain adaptation techniques to work well in different domains. To this end, we present the first approach to unsupervised text generation from KGs and show simultaneously how it can be used for unsupervised semantic parsing. We evaluate our approach on WebNLG v2.1 and a new benchmark leveraging scene graphs from Visual Genome. Our system outperforms strong baselines for both text$\\leftrightarrow$graph conversion tasks without any manual adaptation from one dataset to the other. In additional experiments, we investigate the impact of using different unsupervised objectives.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09447v4","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.09447v4.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":"unsupervised-text-generation-from-structured","repo_url":"https://github.com/mnschmit/unsupervised-graph-text-conversion","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"domain-adaptation","task_name":"Domain Adaptation"},{"task_slug":"unsupervised-kg-to-text-generation","task_name":"Unsupervised KG-to-Text Generation"},{"task_slug":"unsupervised-semantic-parsing","task_name":"Unsupervised semantic parsing"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[{"leaderboard":"/sota/unsupervised-kg-to-text-generation-on-vg","task":"Unsupervised KG-to-Text Generation","dataset":"VG graph-text","model":"GT-BT (composed noise)","rank_in_archive_order":1,"of":1,"metrics":{"BLEU":"23.2"},"uses_additional_data":false},{"leaderboard":"/sota/unsupervised-kg-to-text-generation-on-webnlg","task":"Unsupervised KG-to-Text Generation","dataset":"WebNLG v2.1","model":"GT-BT (sampled noise)","rank_in_archive_order":1,"of":1,"metrics":{"BLEU":"37.7"},"uses_additional_data":false},{"leaderboard":"/sota/unsupervised-semantic-parsing-on-vg-graph","task":"Unsupervised semantic parsing","dataset":"VG graph-text","model":"GT-BT (composed noise)","rank_in_archive_order":1,"of":1,"metrics":{"F1":"21.7"},"uses_additional_data":false},{"leaderboard":"/sota/unsupervised-semantic-parsing-on-webnlg-v2-1","task":"Unsupervised semantic parsing","dataset":"WebNLG v2.1","model":"GT-BT (sampled noise)","rank_in_archive_order":1,"of":1,"metrics":{"F1":"39.1"},"uses_additional_data":false}],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1904.09447","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}