@inproceedings{esmeir-etal-2022-entity,
    title = "Entity Retrieval from Multilingual Knowledge Graphs",
    author = "Esmeir, Saher  and
      C{\^a}mara, Arthur  and
      Meij, Edgar",
    editor = {Ataman, Duygu  and
      Gonen, Hila  and
      Ruder, Sebastian  and
      Firat, Orhan  and
      G{\"u}l Sahin, G{\"o}zde  and
      Mirzakhalov, Jamshidbek},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Multi-lingual Representation Learning (MRL)",
    month = dec,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.mrl-1.1",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.mrl-1.1",
    pages = "1--15",
    abstract = "Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are structured databases that capture real-world entities and their relationships. The task of entity retrieval from a KG aims at retrieving a ranked list of entities relevant to a given user query. While English-only entity retrieval has attracted considerable attention, user queries, as well as the information contained in the KG, may be represented in multiple{---}and possibly distinct{---}languages. Furthermore, KG content may vary between languages due to different information sources and points of view. Recent advances in language representation have enabled natural ways of bridging gaps between languages. In this paper, we therefore propose to utilise language models (LMs) and diverse entity representations to enable truly multilingual entity retrieval. We propose two approaches: (i) an array of monolingual retrievers and (ii) a single multilingual retriever, trained using queries and documents in multiple languages. We show that while our approach is on par with the significantly more complex state-of-the-art method for the English task, it can be successfully applied to virtually any language with a LM. Furthermore, it allows languages to benefit from one another, yielding significantly better performance, both for low- and high-resource languages.",
}