This repository contains code and data for the paper Mind the Labels: Describing Relations in Knowledge Graphs With Pretrained Models accepted to EACL 2023 Main Track.
In this paper, we examine if finetuned BART-base can generate a fluent and semantically accurate verbalizations for a single RDF triple (<head>, <relation>, <tail>), if the <relation> was not present in the finetuning corpus.
The framework uses Python 3, PyTorch Lightning and HuggingFace Transformers.
See requirements.txt for the full list of packages.
Installing the requirements:
pip install -r requirements.txt
Note that we use a slighly customized version of GEM-metrics which is included in the repository. If you do not wish to use the GEM-metrics, you may remove the line -e ./utils/GEM-metrics[heavy] from requirements.txt.
The raw Rel2Text dataset contains 7,334 RDF triples (1,716 unique relations) from Wikidata, DBPedia, and YAGO, equipped with crowdsourced human-written references and manual annotations of the reference quality. The dataset is included in the folder data/orig/rel2text.
The WebNLG dataset is loaded automatically from HuggingFace Datasets.
The KeLM dataset needs to be downloaded from the original repository and placed in the data/orig/kelm folder (in case you wish to replicate the KeLM experiments).
You can find sample system outputs (using a single random seed) in the system_outputs folder.
The eval subfolder contains the computed results on these outputs using GEM metrics.
All the experiments can be run using the script main.sh.
After the data is preprocessed (see main.sh), each individual experiment can be also run using run_experiment.sh, with the experiment names corresponding to the names used in the paper.
The flags -t, -d and -e can be used to run training, decoding, or evaluation parts of the experiments, respectively.
You can use the finetuned models in the interactive mode using the script interact.py. The special tokens <head>, <rel>, <tail>, and <rel_desc> (for desc* models only) are used as separators.
Example:
./interact.py --experiment full_rel2text/seed_1 --beam_size 3
[In]: <head> Commando <rel> actor <tail> Leo Anchóriz
[Out]: ['Leo Anchóriz is the actor in Commando.', 'Leo Anchóriz is an actor in Commando.', 'Leo Anchóriz is the actor who played Commando.']
For the downstream tasks, please refer to the original codebases:
- Tabular Reasoning: https://github.com/utahnlp/knowledge_infotabs
- Zero-Shot D2T Generation: https://github.com/kasnerz/zeroshot-d2t-pipeline
We follow the steps for replicating the experiments described in the respective codebases, using our full_rel2text model instead of the manual templates.
In case you want to extract raw data from the knowledge graphs and postprocess it, see the scripts kb_extractor.py and process_kb_relations.py.
The following example extracts a small sample of relations from each knowledge graph (DBPedia, WikiData, YAGO):
for KB in "dbpedia" "wikidata" "yago"; do
./kb_extractor.py \
-o data/kb/${KB}/output.json \
-k ${KB} \
--start_rel_id 0 \
--end_rel_id 20
doneNote that extracting all the relations (by removing the start_rel_id and end_rel_id parameters) is a time-consuming process which may be further limited by the bandwith of respective APIs.
For YAGO we use offline processing, which means you first need to download and extract the KB dump yago-wd-facts.nt.gz and download the schema.org definition file schemaorg-current-https.jsonld to data/kb/yago.
The following command will postprocess the triples and gather the examples in a file examples.csv:
./process_kb_relations.py \
-k dbpedia wikidata yago
-o examples.csv
This work was co-funded by the European Union (ERC, NG-NLG, 101039303).
