Semantic Networks
Reasoning on Knowledge Graphs with Debate Dynamics
Hildebrandt, Marcel, Serna, Jorge Andres Quintero, Ma, Yunpu, Ringsquandl, Martin, Joblin, Mitchell, Tresp, Volker
We propose a novel method for automatic reasoning on knowledge graphs based on debate dynamics. The main idea is to frame the task of triple classification as a debate game between two reinforcement learning agents which extract arguments -- paths in the knowledge graph -- with the goal to promote the fact being true (thesis) or the fact being false (antithesis), respectively. Based on these arguments, a binary classifier, called the judge, decides whether the fact is true or false. The two agents can be considered as sparse, adversarial feature generators that present interpretable evidence for either the thesis or the antithesis. In contrast to other black-box methods, the arguments allow users to get an understanding of the decision of the judge. Since the focus of this work is to create an explainable method that maintains a competitive predictive accuracy, we benchmark our method on the triple classification and link prediction task. Thereby, we find that our method outperforms several baselines on the benchmark datasets FB15k-237, WN18RR, and Hetionet. We also conduct a survey and find that the extracted arguments are informative for users.
Learning to Answer Ambiguous Questions with Knowledge Graph
Zhu, Yikai, Shen, Jianhao, Zhang, Ming
In the task of factoid question answering over knowledge base, many questions have more than one plausible interpretation. Previous works on SimpleQuestions assume only one interpretation as the ground truth for each question, so they lack the ability to answer ambiguous questions correctly. In this paper, we present a new way to utilize the dataset that takes into account the existence of ambiguous questions. Then we introduce a simple and effective model which combines local knowledge subgraph with attention mechanism. Our experimental results show that our approach achieves outstanding performance in this task.
Probability Calibration for Knowledge Graph Embedding Models
Tabacof, Pedro, Costabello, Luca
A BSTRACT Knowledge graph embedding research has overlooked the problem of probability calibration. We show popular embedding models are indeed uncalibrated. That means probability estimates associated to predicted triples are unreliable. We present a novel method to calibrate a model when ground truth negatives are not available, which is the usual case in knowledge graphs. We propose to use Platt scaling and isotonic regression alongside our method. Experiments on three datasets with ground truth negatives show our contribution leads to well calibrated models when compared to the gold standard of using negatives. We get significantly better results than the uncalibrated models from all calibration methods. We show isotonic regression offers the best the performance overall, not without tradeoffs. We also show that calibrated models reach state-of-the-art accuracy without the need to define relation-specific decision thresholds. 1 I NTRODUCTION Knowledge graph embedding models are neural architectures that learn vector representations (i.e.
Multi-channel Reverse Dictionary Model
Zhang, Lei, Qi, Fanchao, Liu, Zhiyuan, Wang, Yasheng, Liu, Qun, Sun, Maosong
A reverse dictionary takes the description of a target word as input and outputs the target word together with other words that match the description. Inspired by the description-to-word inference process of humans, we propose the multi-channel reverse dictionary model, which can mitigate the two problems simultaneously. Our model comprises a sentence encoder and multiple predictors. The predictors are expected to identify different characteristics of the target word from the input query. We evaluate our model on English and Chinese datasets including both dictionary definitions and human-written descriptions. Experimental results show that our model achieves the state-of-the-art performance, and even outperforms the most popular commercial reverse dictionary system on the human-written description dataset. We also conduct quantitative analyses and a case study to demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of our model. All the code and data of this work can be obtained on https://github.com/thunlp/MultiRD. Introduction A regular (forward) dictionary maps words to definitions while a reverse dictionary (Sierra 2000) does the opposite and maps descriptions to corresponding words. In Figure 1, for example, a regular dictionary tells you that "expressway" is "a wide road that allows traffic to travel fast", and when you input "a road where cars go very quickly without stopping" to a reverse dictionary, it might return "expressway" together with other semantically similar words like "freeway". Reverse dictionaries have great practical value.
Data Exploration and Validation on dense knowledge graphs for biomedical research
Dรถrpinghaus, Jens, Apke, Alexander, Lage-Rupprecht, Vanessa, Stefan, Andreas
Here we present a holistic approach for data exploration on dense knowledge graphs as a novel approach with a proof-of-concept in biomedical research. Knowledge graphs are increasingly becoming a vital factor in knowledge mining and discovery as they connect data using technologies from the semantic web. In this paper we extend a basic knowledge graph extracted from biomedical literature by context data like named entities and relations obtained by text mining and other linked data sources like ontologies and databases. We will present an overview about this novel network. The aim of this work was to extend this current knowledge with approaches from graph theory. This method will build the foundation for quality control, validation of hypothesis, detection of missing data and time series analysis of biomedical knowledge in general. In this context we tried to apply multiple-valued decision diagrams to these questions. In addition this knowledge representation of linked data can be used as FAIR approach to answer semantic questions. This paper sheds new lights on dense and very large knowledge graphs and the importance of a graph-theoretic understanding of these networks.
Binarized Canonical Polyadic Decomposition for Knowledge Graph Completion
Kishimoto, Koki, Hayashi, Katsuhiko, Akai, Genki, Shimbo, Masashi
Methods based on vector embeddings of knowledge graphs have been actively pursued as a promising approach to knowledge graph completion.However, embedding models generate storage-inefficient representations, particularly when the number of entities and relations, and the dimensionality of the real-valued embedding vectors are large. We present a binarized CANDECOMP/PARAFAC(CP) decomposition algorithm, which we refer to as B-CP, where real-valued parameters are replaced by binary values to reduce model size. Moreover, we show that a fast score computation technique can be developed with bitwise operations. We prove that B-CP is fully expressive by deriving a bound on the size of its embeddings. Experimental results on several benchmark datasets demonstrate that the proposed method successfully reduces model size by more than an order of magnitude while maintaining task performance at the same level as the real-valued CP model.
Towards Building a Multilingual Sememe Knowledge Base: Predicting Sememes for BabelNet Synsets
Qi, Fanchao, Chang, Liang, Sun, Maosong, Ouyang, Sicong, Liu, Zhiyuan
A sememe is defined as the minimum semantic unit of human languages. Sememe knowledge bases (KBs), which contain words annotated with sememes, have been successfully applied to many NLP tasks. However, existing sememe KBs are built on only a few languages, which hinders their widespread utilization. To address the issue, we propose to build a unified sememe KB for multiple languages based on BabelNet, a multilingual encyclopedic dictionary. We first build a dataset serving as the seed of the multilingual sememe KB. It manually annotates sememes for over $15$ thousand synsets (the entries of BabelNet). Then, we present a novel task of automatic sememe prediction for synsets, aiming to expand the seed dataset into a usable KB. We also propose two simple and effective models, which exploit different information of synsets. Finally, we conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses to explore important factors and difficulties in the task. All the source code and data of this work can be obtained on https://github.com/thunlp/BabelNet-Sememe-Prediction.
Integrating Graph Contextualized Knowledge into Pre-trained Language Models
He, Bin, Zhou, Di, Xiao, Jinghui, jiang, Xin, Liu, Qun, Yuan, Nicholas Jing, Xu, Tong
Complex node interactions are common in knowledge graphs, and these interactions also contain rich knowledge information. However, traditional methods usually treat a triple as a training unit during the knowledge representation learning (KRL) procedure, neglecting contextualized information of the nodes in knowledge graphs (KGs). We generalize the modeling object to a very general form, which theoretically supports any subgraph extracted from the knowledge graph, and these subgraphs are fed into a novel transformer-based model to learn the knowledge embeddings. To broaden usage scenarios of knowledge, pre-trained language models are utilized to build a model that incorporates the learned knowledge representations. Experimental results demonstrate that our model achieves the state-of-the-art performance on several medical NLP tasks, and improvement above TransE indicates that our KRL method captures the graph contextualized information effectively.
The Coming Merger of Blockchain and Knowledge Graphs
Graph databases and knowledge graphs, in particular, have seen an uptick in interest among CIOs, digital transformation managers and others in enterprise circles. Some of this has come as data warehousing and data lake technologies have not shown the anticipated bringing together of all data within a company. This is due in part to a number of untenable assumptions, not least of which being that the relational model itself is sufficient to capture the rich, complex metadata that must be associated with properties that need to be in place to be useful. Column headers are often seen as an afterthought, when in fact those column headers are essential to converting data into knowledge. Graph databases work by using a few basic principles.
Product Knowledge Graph Embedding for E-commerce
Xu, Da, Ruan, Chuanwei, Korpeoglu, Evren, Kumar, Sushant, Achan, Kannan
In this paper, we propose a new product knowledge graph (PKG) embedding approach for learning the intrinsic product relations as product knowledge for e-commerce. We define the key entities and summarize the pivotal product relations that are critical for general e-commerce applications including marketing, advertisement, search ranking and recommendation. We first provide a comprehensive comparison between PKG and ordinary knowledge graph (KG) and then illustrate why KG embedding methods are not suitable for PKG learning. We construct a self-attention-enhanced distributed representation learning model for learning PKG embeddings from raw customer activity data in an end-to-end fashion. We design an effective multi-task learning schema to fully leverage the multi-modal e-commerce data. The Poincare embedding is also employed to handle complex entity structures. We use a real-world dataset from grocery.walmart.com to evaluate the performances on knowledge completion, search ranking and recommendation. The proposed approach compares favourably to baselines in knowledge completion and downstream tasks.