Point at the Triple: Generation of Text Summaries from Knowledge Base Triples (Extended Abstract)

• DOI: 10.24963/ijcai.2020/711
• Publication Date: 2020-07-08T08:12:10Z
• Authors: Pavlos Vougiouklis; Eddy Maddalena; Jonathon Hare; Elena Simperl
• Keywords: 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology

We investigate the problem of generating natural language summaries from knowledge base triples. Our approach is based on a pointer-generator network, which, in addition to generating regular words from a fixed target vocabulary, is able to verbalise triples in several ways. We undertake an automatic and a human evaluation on single and open-domain summaries generation tasks. Both show that our approach significantly outperforms other data-driven baselines.