Exploring and Evaluating Attributes, Values, and Structures for Entity Alignment

Zhiyuan Liu, Yixin Cao, Liangming Pan, Juanzi Li, Zhiyuan Liu, Tat-Seng Chua


Abstract
Entity alignment (EA) aims at building a unified Knowledge Graph (KG) of rich content by linking the equivalent entities from various KGs. GNN-based EA methods present promising performance by modeling the KG structure defined by relation triples. However, attribute triples can also provide crucial alignment signal but have not been well explored yet. In this paper, we propose to utilize an attributed value encoder and partition the KG into subgraphs to model the various types of attribute triples efficiently. Besides, the performances of current EA methods are overestimated because of the name-bias of existing EA datasets. To make an objective evaluation, we propose a hard experimental setting where we select equivalent entity pairs with very different names as the test set. Under both the regular and hard settings, our method achieves significant improvements (5.10% on average Hits@1 in DBP15k) over 12 baselines in cross-lingual and monolingual datasets. Ablation studies on different subgraphs and a case study about attribute types further demonstrate the effectiveness of our method. Source code and data can be found at https://github.com/thunlp/explore-and-evaluate.
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2020.emnlp-main.515
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Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
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November
Year:
2020
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Online
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Bonnie Webber, Trevor Cohn, Yulan He, Yang Liu
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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6355–6364
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.515
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.515
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Zhiyuan Liu, Yixin Cao, Liangming Pan, Juanzi Li, Zhiyuan Liu, and Tat-Seng Chua. 2020. Exploring and Evaluating Attributes, Values, and Structures for Entity Alignment. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 6355–6364, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Exploring and Evaluating Attributes, Values, and Structures for Entity Alignment (Liu et al., EMNLP 2020)
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 thunlp/explore-and-evaluate