Graph Pre-training for AMR Parsing and Generation

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel graph pre-training approach that enhances language models' understanding of semantic graph structures for improved AMR parsing and generation tasks.

Contribution

It proposes the first pre-training method on semantic graphs, integrating graph auto-encoding and multi-task learning to boost AMR task performance.

Findings

Outperforms existing models on AMR parsing

Improves AMR-to-text generation quality

First to pre-train on semantic graphs

Abstract

Abstract meaning representation (AMR) highlights the core semantic information of text in a graph structure. Recently, pre-trained language models (PLMs) have advanced tasks of AMR parsing and AMR-to-text generation, respectively. However, PLMs are typically pre-trained on textual data, thus are sub-optimal for modeling structural knowledge. To this end, we investigate graph self-supervised training to improve the structure awareness of PLMs over AMR graphs. In particular, we introduce two graph auto-encoding strategies for graph-to-graph pre-training and four tasks to integrate text and graph information during pre-training. We further design a unified framework to bridge the gap between pre-training and fine-tuning tasks. Experiments on both AMR parsing and AMR-to-text generation show the superiority of our model. To our knowledge, we are the first to consider pre-training on semantic graphs.