Improving Cross-lingual Entity Alignment via Optimal Transport
Improving Cross-lingual Entity Alignment via Optimal Transport
Shichao Pei, Lu Yu, Xiangliang Zhang
Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 3231-3237.
https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/448
Cross-lingual entity alignment identifies entity pairs that share the same meanings but locate in different language knowledge graphs (KGs). The study in this paper is to address two limitations that widely exist in current solutions: 1) the alignment loss functions defined at the entity level serve well the purpose of aligning labeled entities but fail to match the whole picture of labeled and unlabeled entities in different KGs; 2) the translation from one domain to the other has been considered (e.g., X to Y by M1 or Y to X by M2). However, the important duality of alignment between different KGs (X to Y by M1 and Y to X by M2) is ignored. We propose a novel entity alignment framework (OTEA), which dually optimizes the entity-level loss and group-level loss via optimal transport theory. We also impose a regularizer on the dual translation matrices to mitigate the effect of noise during transformation. Extensive experimental results show that our model consistently outperforms the state-of-the-arts with significant improvements on alignment accuracy.
Keywords:
Machine Learning: Data Mining
Machine Learning: Relational Learning
Machine Learning: Semi-Supervised Learning
Machine Learning: Knowledge-based Learning