Representativeness of knowledge bases with the generalized benford’s law

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Abstract

Knowledge bases (KBs) such as DBpedia, Wikidata, and YAGO contain a huge number of entities and facts. Several recent works induce rules or calculate statistics on these KBs. Most of these methods are based on the assumption that the data is a representative sample of the studied universe. Unfortunately, KBs are biased because they are built from crowdsourcing and opportunistic agglomeration of available databases. This paper aims at approximating the representativeness of a relation within a knowledge base. For this, we use the generalized Benford’s law, which indicates the distribution expected by the facts of a relation. We then compute the minimum number of facts that have to be added in order to make the KB representative of the real world. Experiments show that our unsupervised method applies to a large number of relations. For numerical relations where ground truths exist, the estimated representativeness proves to be a reliable indicator.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Semantic Web – ISWC 2018 - 17th International Semantic Web Conference, 2018, Proceedings
EditorsMari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa, Valentina Presutti, Lucie-Aimee Kaffee, Elena Simperl, Marta Sabou, Denny Vrandecic, Irene Celino, Kalina Bontcheva
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages374-390
Number of pages17
ISBN (Print)9783030006709
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event17th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2018 - Monterey, United States
Duration: 8 Oct 201812 Oct 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11136 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference17th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMonterey
Period8/10/1812/10/18

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