Title
Language-Agnostic Relation Extraction From Abstracts In Wikis
Abstract
Large-scale knowledge graphs, such as DBpedia, Wikidata, or YAGO, can be enhanced by relation extraction from text, using the data in the knowledge graph as training data, i.e., using distant supervision. While most existing approaches use language-specific methods (usually for English), we present a language-agnostic approach that exploits background knowledge from the graph instead of language-specific techniques and builds machine learning models only from language-independent features. We demonstrate the extraction of relations from Wikipedia abstracts, using the twelve largest language editions of Wikipedia. From those, we can extract 1.6 M new relations in DBpedia at a level of precision of 95%, using a RandomForest classifier trained only on language-independent features. We furthermore investigate the similarity of models for different languages and show an exemplary geographical breakdown of the information extracted. In a second series of experiments, we show how the approach can be transferred to DBkWik, a knowledge graph extracted from thousands of Wikis. We discuss the challenges and first results of extracting relations from a larger set of Wikis, using a less formalized knowledge graph.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/info9040075
INFORMATION
Keywords
Field
DocType
relation extraction, knowledge graphs, Wikipedia, DBpedia, DBkWik, Wiki farms
Training set,Graph,Knowledge graph,Computer science,Exploit,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Classifier (linguistics),Machine learning,Relationship extraction
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
9
4
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nicolas Heist122.45
Sven Hertling26112.33
Heiko Paulheim3109584.19