Insert or Attach: Taxonomy Completion via Box Embedding
Wei Xue, Yongliang Shen, Wenqi Ren, Jietian Guo, Shiliang Pu, Weiming Lu
Abstract
Taxonomy completion, enriching existing taxonomies by inserting new concepts as parents or attaching them as children, has gained significant interest. Previous approaches embed concepts as vectors in Euclidean space, which makes it difficult to model asymmetric relations in taxonomy. In addition, they introduce pseudo-leaves to convert attachment cases into insertion cases, leading to an incorrect bias in network learning dominated by numerous pseudo-leaves. Addressing these, our framework, TaxBox, leverages box containment and center closeness to design two specialized geometric scorers within the box embedding space. These scorers are tailored for insertion and attachment operations and can effectively capture intrinsic relationships between concepts by optimizing on a granular box constraint loss. We employ a dynamic ranking loss mechanism to balance the scores from these scorers, allowing adaptive adjustments of insertion and attachment scores. Experiments on four real-world datasets show that TaxBox significantly outperforms previous methods, yielding substantial improvements over prior methods in real-world datasets, with average performance boosts of 6.7%, 34.9%, and 51.4% in MRR, Hit@1, and Prec@1, respectively.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.acl-long.212
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Bangkok, Thailand
- Editors:
- Lun-Wei Ku, Andre Martins, Vivek Srikumar
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3851–3863
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.212
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Wei Xue, Yongliang Shen, Wenqi Ren, Jietian Guo, Shiliang Pu, and Weiming Lu. 2024. Insert or Attach: Taxonomy Completion via Box Embedding. In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 3851–3863, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Insert or Attach: Taxonomy Completion via Box Embedding (Xue et al., ACL 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2024.acl-long.212.pdf