Multilingual Knowledge Graph Completion via Ensemble Knowledge Transfer

Xuelu Chen, Muhao Chen, Changjun Fan, Ankith Uppunda, Yizhou Sun, Carlo Zaniolo


Abstract
Predicting missing facts in a knowledge graph(KG) is a crucial task in knowledge base construction and reasoning, and it has been the subject of much research in recent works us-ing KG embeddings. While existing KG embedding approaches mainly learn and predict facts within a single KG, a more plausible solution would benefit from the knowledge in multiple language-specific KGs, considering that different KGs have their own strengths and limitations on data quality and coverage. This is quite challenging since the transfer of knowledge among multiple independently maintained KGs is often hindered by the insufficiency of alignment information and inconsistency of described facts. In this paper, we propose kens, a novel framework for embedding learning and ensemble knowledge transfer across a number of language-specific KGs.KEnS embeds all KGs in a shared embedding space, where the association of entities is captured based on self-learning. Then, KEnS performs ensemble inference to com-bine prediction results from multiple language-specific embeddings, for which multiple en-semble techniques are investigated. Experiments on the basis of five real-world language-specific KGs show that, by effectively identifying and leveraging complementary knowledge, KEnS consistently improves state-of-the-art methods on KG completion.
Anthology ID:
2020.findings-emnlp.290
Volume:
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020
Month:
November
Year:
2020
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Online
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Trevor Cohn, Yulan He, Yang Liu
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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3227–3238
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.findings-emnlp.290
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.findings-emnlp.290
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Xuelu Chen, Muhao Chen, Changjun Fan, Ankith Uppunda, Yizhou Sun, and Carlo Zaniolo. 2020. Multilingual Knowledge Graph Completion via Ensemble Knowledge Transfer. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, pages 3227–3238, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Multilingual Knowledge Graph Completion via Ensemble Knowledge Transfer (Chen et al., Findings 2020)
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.findings-emnlp.290.pdf
Code
 stasl0217/KEnS
Data
DBP-5L (English)DBP-5L (Greek)DBP-5L (Spanish)DPB-5L (French)