End-to-end multimodal learning on knowledge graphs has been left largely unaddressed. Instead, most end-to-end models such as message passing networks learn solely from the relational information encoded in graphs' structure: raw values, or literals, are either omitted completely or are stripped from their values and treated as regular nodes. In either case we lose potentially relevant information which could have otherwise been exploited by our learning methods. To avoid this, we must treat literals and non-literals as separate cases. We must also address each modality separately and accordingly: numbers, texts, images, geometries, et cetera. We propose a multimodal message passing network which not only learns end-to-end from the structure of graphs, but also from their possibly divers set of multimodal node features. Our model uses dedicated (neural) encoders to naturally learn embeddings for node features belonging to five different types of modalities, including images and geometries, which are projected into a joint representation space together with their relational information. We demonstrate our model on a node classification task, and evaluate the effect that each modality has on the overall performance. Our result supports our hypothesis that including information from multiple modalities can help our models obtain a better overall performance.
South China University of Technology（华南理工大学）；The Peng Cheng Laboratory（鹏城实验室）；Yunnan University（云南大学）；The Hong Kong Polytechnic University（香港理工大学）
Multimodal named entity recognition (MNER) and multimodal relation extraction (MRE) are two fundamental subtasks in the multimodal knowledge graph construction task. However, the existing methods usually handle two tasks independently, which ignores the bidirectional interaction between them. This paper is the first to propose jointly performing MNER and MRE as a joint multimodal entity-relation extraction task (JMERE). Besides, the current MNER and MRE models only consider aligning the visual objects with textual entities in visual and textual graphs but ignore the entity-entity relationships…
Entity alignment aims at integrating heterogeneous knowledge from different knowledge graphs. Recent studies employ embedding-based methods by first learning the representation of Knowledge Graphs and then performing entity alignment via measuring the similarity between entity embeddings. However, they failed to make good use of the relation semantic information due to the trade-off problem caused by the different objectives of learning knowledge embedding and neighborhood consensus. To address this problem, we propose Relational Knowledge Distillation for Entity Alignment (RKDEA), a Graph Con…
COTET: Cross-view Optimal Transport for Knowledge Graph Entity Typing
School of Computer and Information, Shanxi University（山西大学计算机与信息学院）；School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University（卡迪夫大学计算机科学与信息学院）；School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh（爱丁堡大学信息学院）
Nanjing University（南京大学）；University of California, Los Angeles（加州大学洛杉矶分校）
We study the problem of embedding-based entity alignment between knowledge graphs (KGs). Previous works mainly focus on the relational structure of entities. Some further incorporate another type of features, such as attributes, for refinement. However, a vast of entity features are still unexplored or not equally treated together, which impairs the accuracy and robustness of embedding-based entity alignment. In this paper, we propose a novel framework that unifies multiple views of entities to learn embeddings for entity alignment. Specifically, we embed entities based on the views of entity …
University of Maryland, Baltimore County（马里兰大学巴尔的摩县分校）
We demonstrate the complementary natures of neural knowledge graph embedding, fine-grain entity type prediction, and neural language modeling. We show that a language model-inspired knowledge graph embedding approach yields both improved knowledge graph embeddings and fine-grain entity type representations. Our work also shows that jointly modeling both structured knowledge tuples and language improves both.
Tencent Jarvis Lab（腾讯天衍实验室）；Tencent（腾讯）；University of Oxford（牛津大学）
Semantic embedding has been widely investigated for aligning knowledge graph (KG) entities. Current methods have explored and utilized the graph structure, the entity names and attributes, but ignore the ontology (or ontological schema) which contains critical meta information such as classes and their membership relationships with entities. In this paper, we propose an ontology-guided entity alignment method named OntoEA, where both KGs and their ontologies are jointly embedded, and the class hierarchy and the class disjointness are utilized to avoid false mappings. Extensive experiments on s…
University of California, Los Angeles（加州大学洛杉矶分校）；Stony Brook University（石溪大学）
Multilingual knowledge graph (KG) embeddings provide latent semantic representations of entities and structured knowledge with cross-lingual inferences, which benefit various knowledge-driven cross-lingual NLP tasks. However, precisely learning such cross-lingual inferences is usually hindered by the low coverage of entity alignment in many KGs. Since many multilingual KGs also provide literal descriptions of entities, in this paper, we introduce an embedding-based approach which leverages a weakly aligned multilingual KG for semi-supervised cross-lingual learning using entity descriptions. Ou…
Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院计算机网络信息中心）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）
Most researches for knowledge graph completion learn representations of entities and relations to predict missing links in incomplete knowledge graphs. However, these methods fail to take full advantage of both the contextual information of entity and relation. Here, we extract contexts of entities and relations from the triplets which they compose. We propose a model named AggrE, which conducts efficient aggregations respectively on entity context and relation context in multi-hops, and learns context-enhanced entity and relation embeddings for knowledge graph completion. The experiment resul…
Johns Hopkins University（约翰斯·霍普金斯大学）；New York University（纽约大学）；University of Amsterdam（阿姆斯特丹大学）；Rond Consulting（朗德咨询公司）；Amazon Alexa AI（亚马逊Alexa人工智能部门）；Amsterdam UMC（阿姆斯特丹大学医学中心）
We propose a method to make natural language understanding models more parameter efficient by storing knowledge in an external knowledge graph (KG) and retrieving from this KG using a dense index. Given (possibly multilingual) downstream task data, e.g., sentences in German, we retrieve entities from the KG and use their multimodal representations to improve downstream task performance. We use the recently released VisualSem KG as our external knowledge repository, which covers a subset of Wikipedia and WordNet entities, and compare a mix of tuple-based and graph-based algorithms to learn enti…
Tsinghua University（清华大学）；The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学）；Universitas Indonesia（印度尼西亚大学）；Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院深圳先进技术研究院）；The University of Melbourne（墨尔本大学）
The task of entity alignment between knowledge graphs (KGs) aims to identify every pair of entities from two different KGs that represent the same entity. Many machine learning-based methods have been proposed for this task. However, to our best knowledge, existing methods all require manually crafted seed alignments, which are expensive to obtain. In this paper, we propose the first fully automatic alignment method named TransAlign, which does not require any manually crafted seed alignments. Specifically, for predicate embeddings, TransAlign constructs a predicate-proximity-graph to automati…
Entity resolution, the problem of identifying the underlying entity of references found in data, has been researched for many decades in many communities. A common theme in this research has been the importance of incorporating relational features into the resolution process. Relational entity resolution is particularly important in knowledge graphs (KGs), which have a regular structure capturing entities and their interrelationships. We identify three major problems in KG entity resolution: (1) intra-KG reference ambiguity; (2) inter-KG reference ambiguity; and (3) ambiguity when extending KG…
Named Entity Recognition task is one of the core tasks of information extraction. Word ambiguity and word abbreviation are important reasons for the low recognition rate of named entities. In this paper, we propose a novel named entity recognition model WCL-BBCD (Word Contrastive Learning with BERT-BiLSTM-CRF-DBpedia), which incorporates the idea of contrastive learning. The model first trains the sentence pairs in the text, calculate similarity between sentence pairs, and fine-tunes BERT used for the named entity recognition task according to the similarity, so as to alleviate word ambiguity.…
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign（伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校）；University at Buffalo（布法罗大学）；NVIDIA（英伟达）
We propose DEER (Descriptive Knowledge Graph for Explaining Entity Relationships) - an open and informative form of modeling entity relationships. In DEER, relationships between entities are represented by free-text relation descriptions. For instance, the relationship between entities of machine learning and algorithm can be represented as ``Machine learning explores the study and construction of algorithms that can learn from and make predictions on data.'' To construct DEER, we propose a self-supervised learning method to extract relation descriptions with the analysis of dependency pattern…
University of Southern California（南加州大学）；National University of Singapore（新加坡国立大学）
Entity type prediction is an important problem in knowledge graph (KG) research. A new KG entity type prediction method, named CORE (COmplex space Regression and Embedding), is proposed in this work. The proposed CORE method leverages the expressive power of two complex space embedding models; namely, RotatE and ComplEx models. It embeds entities and types in two different complex spaces using either RotatE or ComplEx. Then, we derive a complex regression model to link these two spaces. Finally, a mechanism to optimize embedding and regression parameters jointly is introduced. Experiments show…
Language Technology Group, Universität Hamburg（汉堡大学语言技术组）；Fraunhofer IAIS（弗劳恩霍夫智能分析与信息系统研究所）；Smart Data Analytics Group, University of Bonn（波恩大学智能数据分析组）
Question Answering systems are generally modelled as a pipeline consisting of a sequence of steps. In such a pipeline, Entity Linking (EL) is often the first step. Several EL models first perform span detection and then entity disambiguation. In such models errors from the span detection phase cascade to later steps and result in a drop of overall accuracy. Moreover, lack of gold entity spans in training data is a limiting factor for span detector training. Hence the movement towards end-to-end EL models began where no separate span detection step is involved. In this work we present a novel a…
A Fused Gromov-Wasserstein Framework for Unsupervised Knowledge Graph Entity Alignment
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)（香港科技大学（广州））；Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科技大学）；Tencent AI Lab（腾讯人工智能实验室）；Beijing Institute of Technology（北京理工大学）
SOKENDAI（综合研究大学院大学）；National Institute of Informatics（国立信息学研究所）
Knowledge graphs have evolved rapidly in recent years and their usefulness has been demonstrated in many artificial intelligence tasks. However, knowledge graphs often have lots of missing facts. To solve this problem, many knowledge graph embedding models have been developed to populate knowledge graphs and these have shown outstanding performance. However, knowledge graph embedding models are so-called black boxes, and the user does not know how the information in a knowledge graph is processed and the models can be difficult to interpret. In this paper, we utilize graph patterns in a knowle…
The University of Queensland（昆士兰大学）；Nanjing University（南京大学）；Soochow University（苏州大学）；Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科技大学）
Entity alignment is a crucial task in knowledge graph fusion. However, most entity alignment approaches have the scalability problem. Recent methods address this issue by dividing large KGs into small blocks for embedding and alignment learning in each. However, such a partitioning and learning process results in an excessive loss of structure and alignment. Therefore, in this work, we propose a scalable GNN-based entity alignment approach to reduce the structure and alignment loss from three perspectives. First, we propose a centrality-based subgraph generation algorithm to recall some landma…
Shanxi University（山西大学）；Cardiff University（卡迪夫大学）；University of Edinburgh（爱丁堡大学）
We investigate the knowledge graph entity typing task which aims at inferring plausible entity types. In this paper, we propose a novel Transformer-based Entity Typing (TET) approach, effectively encoding the content of neighbors of an entity. More precisely, TET is composed of three different mechanisms: a local transformer allowing to infer missing types of an entity by independently encoding the information provided by each of its neighbors; a global transformer aggregating the information of all neighbors of an entity into a single long sequence to reason about more complex entity types; a…
Southeast University（东南大学）；Southeast University - Monash University Joint Graduate School（东南大学-莫纳什大学联合研究生院）
Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are graph-structured knowledge bases storing factual information about real-world entities. Understanding the uniqueness of each entity is crucial to the analyzing, sharing, and reusing of KGs. Traditional profiling technologies encompass a vast array of methods to find distinctive features in various applications, which can help to differentiate entities in the process of human understanding of KGs. In this work, we present a novel profiling approach to identify distinctive entity features. The distinctiveness of features is carefully measured by a HAS model, which is a…
The goal of entity matching in knowledge graphs is to identify entities that refer to the same real-world objects using some similarity metric. The result of entity matching can be seen as a set of entity pairs interpreted as the same-as relation. However, the identified set of pairs may fail to satisfy some structural properties, in particular transitivity, that are expected from the same-as relation. In this work, we show that an ad-hoc enforcement of transitivity, i.e. taking the transitive closure, on the identified set of entity pairs may decrease precision dramatically. We therefore prop…
To enhance research on multimodal knowledge base and multimodal information processing, we propose a new task called multimodal entity tagging (MET) with a multimodal knowledge base (MKB). We also develop a dataset for the problem using an existing MKB. In an MKB, there are entities and their associated texts and images. In MET, given a text-image pair, one uses the information in the MKB to automatically identify the related entity in the text-image pair. We solve the task by using the information retrieval paradigm and implement several baselines using state-of-the-art methods in NLP and CV.…
Beijing Institute of Technology（北京理工大学）；JD AI Research（京东人工智能研究院）；Australian National University（澳大利亚国立大学）
Multimodal named entity recognition (MNER) is a critical step in information extraction, which aims to detect entity spans and classify them to corresponding entity types given a sentence-image pair. Existing methods either (1) obtain named entities with coarse-grained visual clues from attention mechanisms, or (2) first detect fine-grained visual regions with toolkits and then recognize named entities. However, they suffer from improper alignment between entity types and visual regions or error propagation in the two-stage manner, which finally imports irrelevant visual information into texts…
Multimodal named entity recognition and relation extraction (MNER and MRE) is a fundamental and crucial branch in information extraction. However, existing approaches for MNER and MRE usually suffer from error sensitivity when irrelevant object images incorporated in texts. To deal with these issues, we propose a novel Hierarchical Visual Prefix fusion NeTwork (HVPNeT) for visual-enhanced entity and relation extraction, aiming to achieve more effective and robust performance. Specifically, we regard visual representation as pluggable visual prefix to guide the textual representation for error …
Multi-Grained Query-Guided Set Prediction Network for Grounded Multimodal Named Entity Recognition
School of Artificial Intelligence, Sun Yat-sen University（中山大学人工智能学院）；School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University（中山大学大气科学学院）；School of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University（中山大学电子与通信工程学院）；State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Game, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院软件研究所智能游戏国家重点实验室）；Pazhou Lab（琶洲实验室）
Multi-level Mixture of Experts for Multimodal Entity Linking
School of Computer；Information Technology Shanxi University Taiyuan China；School of Computer Science；Informatics Cardiff University Cardiff UK；ILCC, School of Informatics University of Edinburgh Edinburgh UK；Information Technology Shanxi University；Informatics Cardiff University；ILCC, School of Informatics University of Edinburgh
M$^3$-VQA: A Benchmark for Multimodal, Multi-Entity, Multi-Hop Visual Question Answering
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）；School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学人工智能学院）
Exploring the Implicit Semantic Ability of Multimodal Large Language Models: A Pilot Study on Entity Set Expansion
Shenzhen International Graduate School Tsinghua University（清华大学深圳国际研究生院）；Peng Cheng Laboratory（鹏城实验室）；Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (SZ)（广东省人工智能与数字经济实验室（深圳））；Seoul National University（首尔大学）
Multi-level Matching Network for Multimodal Entity Linking
School of Computer；Information Technology Shanxi University Taiyuan China；School of Computer Science；Informatics Cardiff University Cardiff UK；ILCC, School of Informatics University of Edinburgh Edinburgh UK；Information Technology Shanxi University；Informatics Cardiff University；ILCC, School of Informatics University of Edinburgh
Contextually aware intelligent agents are often required to understand the users and their surroundings in real-time. Our goal is to build Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems that can assist children in their learning process. Within such complex frameworks, Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS) are crucial building blocks to handle efficient task-oriented communication with children in game-based learning settings. We are working towards a multimodal dialogue system for younger kids learning basic math concepts. Our focus is on improving the Natural Language Understanding (NLU) module of the task-or…
Traditional language models are unable to efficiently model entity names observed in text. All but the most popular named entities appear infrequently in text providing insufficient context. Recent efforts have recognized that context can be generalized between entity names that share the same type (e.g., \emph{person} or \emph{location}) and have equipped language models with access to an external knowledge base (KB). Our Knowledge-Augmented Language Model (KALM) continues this line of work by augmenting a traditional model with a KB. Unlike previous methods, however, we train with an end-to-…
Entity alignment is to find identical entities in different knowledge graphs (KGs) that refer to the same real-world object. Embedding-based entity alignment techniques have been drawing a lot of attention recently because they can help solve the issue of symbolic heterogeneity in different KGs. However, in this paper, we show that the progress made in the past was due to biased and unchallenging evaluation. We highlight two major flaws in existing datasets that favor embedding-based entity alignment techniques, i.e., the isomorphic graph structures in relation triples and the weak heterogenei…
