Automatic Term Name Generation for Gene Ontology: Task and Dataset

Yanjian Zhang, Qin Chen, Yiteng Zhang, Zhongyu Wei, Yixu Gao, Jiajie Peng, Zengfeng Huang, Weijian Sun, Xuanjing Huang

Abstract: Terms contained in Gene Ontology (GO) have been widely used in biology and bio-medicine. Most previous research focuses on inferring new GO terms, while the term names that reflect the gene function are still named by the experts. To fill this gap, we propose a novel task, namely term name generation for GO, and build a large-scale benchmark dataset. Furthermore, we present a graph-based generative model that incorporates the relations between genes, words and terms for term name generation, which exhibits great advantages over the strong baselines.