Jiaojiao Wang
Author directory2026
Bridging Text and Structure via Latent Query Refinement for Knowledge Graph Completion
Chunmiao Yu | Zikang Wang | Tianyi Luo | Jiaojiao Wang | Zhidong Cao
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Chunmiao Yu | Zikang Wang | Tianyi Luo | Jiaojiao Wang | Zhidong Cao
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Knowledge graph completion(KGC) aims to infer missing facts from observed relational triples, which demands jointly modeling textual semantics and relational structure. Existing structure-based methods capture graph topology but often struggle with sparse entities and long-tail relations, while text-based methods exploit entity and relation descriptions but weakly model relational neighborhoods. In this paper, we propose LQ-KGC, a latent-query refinement framework that enables iterative interaction between semantic inference and structural reasoning for KGC. Instead of treating all missing triples as latent variables, LQ-KGC constructs a restricted set of semantically plausible latent queries and alternates between two refinement steps: the language model predicts latent tail distributions from textual descriptions, while the graph model incorporates high-confidence pseudo tails as pseudo edges for relation-aware message passing. Meanwhile, structure-aware graph predictions are distilled back into the language model to refine semantic representations. Experiments on WN18RR and FB15k-237 demonstrate that LQ-KGC consistently improves over text-based and graph-based baselines, with additional analyses highlighting the effectiveness of pseudo-edge augmentation and latent-query construction.