DomiKnowS: A Library for Integration of Symbolic Domain Knowledge in Deep Learning

Hossein Rajaby Faghihi, Quan Guo, Andrzej Uszok, Aliakbar Nafar, Parisa Kordjamshidi


Abstract
We demonstrate a library for the integration of domain knowledge in deep learning architectures. Using this library, the structure of the data is expressed symbolically via graph declarations and the logical constraints over outputs or latent variables can be seamlessly added to the deep models. The domain knowledge can be defined explicitly, which improves the explainability of the models in addition to their performance and generalizability in the low-data regime. Several approaches for such integration of symbolic and sub-symbolic models have been introduced; however, there is no library to facilitate the programming for such integration in a generic way while various underlying algorithms can be used. Our library aims to simplify programming for such integration in both training and inference phases while separating the knowledge representation from learning algorithms. We showcase various NLP benchmark tasks and beyond. The framework is publicly available at Github(https://github.com/HLR/DomiKnowS).
Anthology ID:
2021.emnlp-demo.27
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
Month:
November
Year:
2021
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Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Editors:
Heike Adel, Shuming Shi
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
231–241
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-demo.27
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-demo.27
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Cite (ACL):
Hossein Rajaby Faghihi, Quan Guo, Andrzej Uszok, Aliakbar Nafar, and Parisa Kordjamshidi. 2021. DomiKnowS: A Library for Integration of Symbolic Domain Knowledge in Deep Learning. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, pages 231–241, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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DomiKnowS: A Library for Integration of Symbolic Domain Knowledge in Deep Learning (Rajaby Faghihi et al., EMNLP 2021)
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-demo.27.pdf
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 https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-demo.27.mp4
Code
 hlr/domiknows