Self-learning and embedding based entity alignment

Saiping Guan, Xiaolong Jin, Yuanzhuo Wang, Yantao Jia, Huawei Shen, Zixuan Li, Xueqi Cheng

Abstract: Entity alignment aims to identify semantical matchings between entities from different groups. Traditional methods (e.g., attribute comparison-based methods, graph operation-based methods and active learning ones) are usually supervised by labeled data as prior knowledge. Since it is not trivial to label data for training, researchers have then turned to unsupervised methods, and have thus developed similarity-based methods, probabilistic methods, graphical model-based methods, etc. In addition, structure or class information is further explored. As an important part of a knowledge graph, entities contain rich semantical information that can be well learned by knowledge graph embedding methods in low-dimensional vector spaces. However, existing methods for entity alignment have paid little attention to knowledge graph embedding. In this paper, we propose a self-learning and embedding based method for entity alignment, thus called SEEA, to iteratively find semantically aligned entity pairs, which makes full use of semantical information contained in the attributes of entities. Experiments on three realistic datasets and comparison with a few baseline methods validate the effectiveness and merits of the proposed method.