Exploiting Hybrid Semantics of Relation Paths for Multi-hop Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs

Zile Qiao, Wei Ye, Tong Zhang, Tong Mo, Weiping Li, Shikun Zhang


Abstract
Answering natural language questions on knowledge graphs (KGQA) remains a great challenge in terms of understanding complex questions via multi-hop reasoning. Previous efforts usually exploit large-scale entity-related text corpus or knowledge graph (KG) embeddings as auxiliary information to facilitate answer selection. However, the rich semantics implied in off-the-shelf relation paths between entities is far from well explored. This paper proposes improving multi-hop KGQA by exploiting relation paths’ hybrid semantics. Specifically, we integrate explicit textual information and implicit KG structural features of relation paths based on a novel rotate-and-scale entity link prediction framework. Extensive experiments on three existing KGQA datasets demonstrate the superiority of our method, especially in multi-hop scenarios. Further investigation confirms our method’s systematical coordination between questions and relation paths to identify answer entities.
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2022.coling-1.156
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Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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October
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2022
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Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lucia Donatelli, Heng Ji, Sadao Kurohashi, Patrizia Paggio, Nianwen Xue, Seokhwan Kim, Younggyun Hahm, Zhong He, Tony Kyungil Lee, Enrico Santus, Francis Bond, Seung-Hoon Na
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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1813–1822
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Zile Qiao, Wei Ye, Tong Zhang, Tong Mo, Weiping Li, and Shikun Zhang. 2022. Exploiting Hybrid Semantics of Relation Paths for Multi-hop Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 1813–1822, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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