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Time-aware Graph Neural Network for Entity Alignment between Temporal Knowledge Graphs

Chengjin Xu, Fenglong Su, Jens Lehmann


Abstract
Entity alignment aims to identify equivalent entity pairs between different knowledge graphs (KGs). Recently, the availability of temporal KGs (TKGs) that contain time information created the need for reasoning over time in such TKGs. Existing embedding-based entity alignment approaches disregard time information that commonly exists in many large-scale KGs, leaving much room for improvement. In this paper, we focus on the task of aligning entity pairs between TKGs and propose a novel Time-aware Entity Alignment approach based on Graph Neural Networks (TEA-GNN). We embed entities, relations and timestamps of different KGs into a vector space and use GNNs to learn entity representations. To incorporate both relation and time information into the GNN structure of our model, we use a self-attention mechanism which assigns different weights to different nodes with orthogonal transformation matrices computed from embeddings of the relevant relations and timestamps in a neighborhood. Experimental results on multiple real-world TKG datasets show that our method significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods due to the inclusion of time information.
Anthology ID:
2021.emnlp-main.709
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Month:
November
Year:
2021
Address:
Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Editors:
Marie-Francine Moens, Xuanjing Huang, Lucia Specia, Scott Wen-tau Yih
Venue:
EMNLP
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
8999–9010
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.709
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.709
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Cite (ACL):
Chengjin Xu, Fenglong Su, and Jens Lehmann. 2021. Time-aware Graph Neural Network for Entity Alignment between Temporal Knowledge Graphs. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 8999–9010, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Time-aware Graph Neural Network for Entity Alignment between Temporal Knowledge Graphs (Xu et al., EMNLP 2021)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.709.pdf
Video:
 https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.709.mp4
Code
 soledad921/tea-gnn
Data
YAGO