The KBGen Challenge

International audienceGiven a preselected set of relations extracted from the AURA knowledge base on biology, the KBGEN Task consisted in generating a sentence verbalising these relations. Three team submitted the results of their systems. The systems were compared using both automatic metrics (BLEU, NIST) and subjective ratings by 12 human users for three dimensions namely, fluency, grammaticality and meaning similarity. In this report, we summarise the KBGen Task, the evaluation methods and the results obtained

A Domain Agnostic Approach to Verbalizing n-ary Events without Parallel Corpora

International audienceWe present a method for automatically generating descriptions of biological events encoded in the KB Bio 101 Knowledge base. We evaluate our approach on a corpus of 336 event descriptions, provide a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the results obtained and discuss possible directions for further work