Jointly Learning Entity and Relation Representations for Entity Alignment

Yuting Wu, Xiao Liu, Yansong Feng, Zheng Wang, Dongyan Zhao

Abstract
Entity alignment is a viable means for integrating heterogeneous knowledge among different knowledge graphs (KGs). Recent developments in the field often take an embedding-based approach to model the structural information of KGs so that entity alignment can be easily performed in the embedding space. However, most existing works do not explicitly utilize useful relation representations to assist in entity alignment, which, as we will show in the paper, is a simple yet effective way for improving entity alignment. This paper presents a novel joint learning framework for entity alignment. At the core of our approach is a Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) based framework for learning both entity and relation representations. Rather than relying on pre-aligned relation seeds to learn relation representations, we first approximate them using entity embeddings learned by the GCN. We then incorporate the relation approximation into entities to iteratively learn better representations for both. Experiments performed on three real-world cross-lingual datasets show that our approach substantially outperforms state-of-the-art entity alignment methods.
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D19-1023
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)
Month:
November
Year:
2019
Address:
Hong Kong, China
Editors:
Kentaro Inui, Jing Jiang, Vincent Ng, Xiaojun Wan
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EMNLP | IJCNLP
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SIGDAT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
240–249
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https://aclanthology.org/D19-1023
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D19-1023
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Yuting Wu, Xiao Liu, Yansong Feng, Zheng Wang, and Dongyan Zhao. 2019. Jointly Learning Entity and Relation Representations for Entity Alignment. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), pages 240–249, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Jointly Learning Entity and Relation Representations for Entity Alignment (Wu et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
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