Research Projects

WG2Text
Knowledge Graph-Based Text Generation
Start: 07/2023
End: 12/2024

Generative language models are now capable of producing impressive texts, but they often rely on implicitly learned information that is difficult to trace and may be outdated. Especially in complex knowledge domains, this can lead to factual errors, a lack of transparency, and reduced trust. WG2Text investigates how explicit knowledge from semantic knowledge graphs can be used for text generation. The aim is to combine structured, verifiable, and updatable information from knowledge graphs with language models in such a way that fact-based, understandable, and traceable texts can be generated. The project develops and compares approaches for transforming knowledge graphs into natural language texts and demonstrates the results in a working demonstrator. In this way, WG2Text contributes to more transparent and reliable language models as well as to improved knowledge communication across different application domains.
WG2Text explores neuro-symbolic methods that combine the strengths of generative language models with the explicit knowledge contained in semantic knowledge graphs. While language models can generate natural-sounding texts, knowledge graphs are structured, explainable, verifiable, and updatable. The project researches, classifies, implements, and evaluates existing approaches to knowledge graph-to-text generation using benchmark datasets. Building on this, new approaches are developed that modularly combine knowledge integration, language model use, and graph representation.
Role of the FZI
FZI plays a central role in the conception, implementation, demonstration, and exploitation of the approaches developed in the project. Its tasks include analysing the current state of research and helping to shape the research design. In addition, FZI contributes to the prototypical implementation of existing methods, the development of new components for integrating knowledge from knowledge graphs into language models, and the creation of a demonstrator system.

Contact person
Department Manager
Division: Information Process Engineering
Headquarters Karlsruhe

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