Title
Enriching Taxonomies With Functional Domain Knowledge.
Abstract
The rising need to harvest domain specific knowledge in several applications is largely limited by the ability to dynamically grow structured knowledge representations, due to the increasing emergence of new concepts and their semantic relationships with existing ones. Such enrichment of existing hierarchical knowledge sources with new information to better model the "changing world" presents two-fold challenges: (1) Detection of previously unknown entities or concepts, and (2) Insertion of the new concepts into the knowledge structure, respecting the semantic integrity of the created relationships. To this end we propose a novel framework, ETF, to enrich large-scale, generic taxonomies with new concepts from resources such as news and research publications. Our approach learns a high-dimensional embedding for the existing concepts of the taxonomy, as well as for the new concepts. During the insertion of a new concept, this embedding is used to identify semantically similar neighborhoods within the existing taxonomy. The potential parent-child relationships linking the new concepts to the existing ones are then predicted using a set of semantic and graph features. Extensive evaluation of ETF on large, real-world taxonomies of Wikipedia and WordNet showcase more than 5% F1-score improvements compared to state-of-the-art baselines. We further demonstrate that ETF can accurately categorize newly emerging concepts and question-answer pairs across different domains.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3209978.3210000
SIGIR
Field
DocType
ISBN
Categorization,Ontology engineering,Embedding,Information retrieval,Domain knowledge,Computer science,Baseline (configuration management),Semantic network,Knowledge structure,WordNet
Conference
978-1-4503-5657-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.37
25
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nikhita Vedula173.20
Patrick K. Nicholson28814.10
Deepak Ajwani318822.30
Sourav Dutta4256.03
Alessandra Sala5214.29
Srinivasan Parthasarathy64666375.76