Towards Automatic Soccer Commentary Generation with Knowledge-Enhanced Visual Reasoning

Zeyu Jin, Xiaoyu Qin, Songtao Zhou, Kaifeng Yun, Jia Jia

Abstract: Soccer commentary plays a crucial role in enhancing the soccer game viewing experience for audiences. Previous studies in automatic soccer commentary generation typically adopt an end-to-end method to generate anonymous live text commentary. Such generated commentary is insufficient in the context of real-world live televised commentary, as it contains anonymous entities, context-dependent errors and lacks statistical insights of the game events. To bridge the gap, we propose GAME- SIGHT, a two-stage model to address soccer commentary generation as a knowledge-enhanced visual reasoning task, enabling live-televised-like knowledgeable commentary with accurate reference to entities (players and teams). GAMESIGHT starts by performing visual reasoning to align anonymous entities with fine-grained visual and contextual analysis. Subsequently, the entity-aligned commentary is refined with knowledge by incorporating external historical statistics and iteratively updated internal game state information. Consequently, GAMESIGHT improves the player alignment accuracy by 18.5% on SN-Caption-test-align dataset compared to Gemini 2.5-pro. Combined with further knowledge enhancement, GAMESIGHT outperforms in segment-level accuracy and commentary quality, as well as game-level contextual relevance and structural composition. We believe that our work paves the way for a more informative and engaging human- centric experience with the AI sports application.