TeRo: A Time-aware Knowledge Graph Embedding via Temporal Rotation
Chengjin Xu, Mojtaba Nayyeri, Fouad Alkhoury, Hamed Shariat Yazdi, Jens Lehmann
Abstract
In the last few years, there has been a surge of interest in learning representations of entities and relations in knowledge graph (KG). However, the recent availability of temporal knowledge graphs (TKGs) that contain time information for each fact created the need for reasoning over time in such TKGs. In this regard, we present a new approach of TKG embedding, TeRo, which defines the temporal evolution of entity embedding as a rotation from the initial time to the current time in the complex vector space. Specially, for facts involving time intervals, each relation is represented as a pair of dual complex embeddings to handle the beginning and the end of the relation, respectively. We show our proposed model overcomes the limitations of the existing KG embedding models and TKG embedding models and has the ability of learning and inferring various relation patterns over time. Experimental results on three different TKGs show that TeRo significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art models for link prediction. In addition, we analyze the effect of time granularity on link prediction over TKGs, which as far as we know has not been investigated in previous literature.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.coling-main.139
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Barcelona, Spain (Online)
- Editors:
- Donia Scott, Nuria Bel, Chengqing Zong
- Venue:
- COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- International Committee on Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1583–1593
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.139
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.139
- Cite (ACL):
- Chengjin Xu, Mojtaba Nayyeri, Fouad Alkhoury, Hamed Shariat Yazdi, and Jens Lehmann. 2020. TeRo: A Time-aware Knowledge Graph Embedding via Temporal Rotation. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 1583–1593, Barcelona, Spain (Online). International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- TeRo: A Time-aware Knowledge Graph Embedding via Temporal Rotation (Xu et al., COLING 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2020.coling-main.139.pdf
- Code
- soledad921/ATISE + additional community code
- Data
- ICEWS, YAGO