Cat2Type: Wikipedia Category Embeddings for Entity Typing in Knowledge Graphs

Russa Biswas, Radina Sofronova, Harald Sack, Mehwish Alam

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Abstract

The entity type information in Knowledge Graphs (KGs) such as DBpedia, Freebase, etc. is often incomplete due to automated generation. Entity Typing is the task of assigning or inferring the semantic type of an entity in a KG. This paper introduces an approach named Cat2Type which exploits the Wikipedia Categories to predict the missing entity types in a KG. This work extracts information from Wikipedia Category names and the Wikipedia Category graph which are the sources of rich semantic information about the entities. In Cat2Type, the characteristic features of the entities encapsulated in Wikipedia Category names are exploited using Neural Language Models. On the other hand, a Wikipedia Category graph is constructed to capture the connection between the categories. The Node level representations are learned by optimizing the neighbourhood information on the Wikipedia category graph. These representations are then used for entity type prediction via classification. The performance of Cat2Type is assessed on two real-world benchmark datasets DBpedia630k and FIGER. The experiments depict that Cat2Type obtained a significant improvement over state-of-the-art approaches.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationK-CAP 2021 - Proceedings of the 11th Knowledge Capture Conference
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages81-88
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781450384575
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Dec 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event11th ACM International Conference on Knowledge Capture, K-CAP 2021 - Virtual, Online, United States
Duration: 2 Dec 20213 Dec 2021

Publication series

NameK-CAP 2021 - Proceedings of the 11th Knowledge Capture Conference

Conference

Conference11th ACM International Conference on Knowledge Capture, K-CAP 2021
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVirtual, Online
Period2/12/213/12/21

Keywords

  • entity type prediction
  • language models
  • node embeddings
  • wikipedia categories

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