Graph-augmented Learning to Rank for Querying Large-scale Knowledge Graph

Hanning Gao, Lingfei Wu, Po Hu, Zhihua Wei, Fangli Xu, Bo Long


Abstract
Knowledge graph question answering (KGQA) based on information retrieval aims to answer a question by retrieving answer from a large-scale knowledge graph. Most existing methods first roughly retrieve the knowledge subgraphs (KSG) that may contain candidate answer, and then search for the exact answer in the KSG. However, the KSG may contain thousands of candidate nodes since the knowledge graph involved in querying is often of large scale, thus decreasing the performance of answer selection. To tackle this problem, we first propose to partition the retrieved KSG to several smaller sub-KSGs via a new subgraph partition algorithm and then present a graph-augmented learning to rank model to select the top-ranked sub-KSGs from them. Our proposed model combines a novel subgraph matching networks to capture global interactions in both question and subgraphs and an Enhanced Bilateral Multi-Perspective Matching model to capture local interactions. Finally, we apply an answer selection model on the full KSG and the top-ranked sub-KSGs respectively to validate the effectiveness of our proposed graph-augmented learning to rank method. The experimental results on multiple benchmark datasets have demonstrated the effectiveness of our approach.
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2022.aacl-main.7
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Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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November
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2022
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Online only
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Yulan He, Heng Ji, Sujian Li, Yang Liu, Chua-Hui Chang
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AACL | IJCNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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82–92
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.aacl-main.7
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.aacl-main.7
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Hanning Gao, Lingfei Wu, Po Hu, Zhihua Wei, Fangli Xu, and Bo Long. 2022. Graph-augmented Learning to Rank for Querying Large-scale Knowledge Graph. In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 82–92, Online only. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Graph-augmented Learning to Rank for Querying Large-scale Knowledge Graph (Gao et al., AACL-IJCNLP 2022)
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