Improving Neural Knowledge Base Completion with Cross-Lingual Projections

Patrick Klein, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Goran Glavaš


Abstract
In this paper we present a cross-lingual extension of a neural tensor network model for knowledge base completion. We exploit multilingual synsets from BabelNet to translate English triples to other languages and then augment the reference knowledge base with cross-lingual triples. We project monolingual embeddings of different languages to a shared multilingual space and use them for network initialization (i.e., as initial concept embeddings). We then train the network with triples from the cross-lingually augmented knowledge base. Results on WordNet link prediction show that leveraging cross-lingual information yields significant gains over exploiting only monolingual triples.
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E17-2083
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Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers
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April
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2017
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Valencia, Spain
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516–522
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Patrick Klein, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, and Goran Glavaš. 2017. Improving Neural Knowledge Base Completion with Cross-Lingual Projections. In Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers, pages 516–522, Valencia, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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