Finding an attribute to explain the relationships between a given pair of entities is valuable in many applications.However,many direct solutions fail,owing to its low precision caused by heavy dependence on text and ...Finding an attribute to explain the relationships between a given pair of entities is valuable in many applications.However,many direct solutions fail,owing to its low precision caused by heavy dependence on text and low recall by evidence scarcity.Thus,we propose a generalization-and-inference framework and implement it to build a system:entity-relationship finder(ERF).Our main idea is conceptualizing entity pairs into proper concept pairs,as intermediate random variables to form the explanation.Although entity conceptualization has been studied,it has new challenges of collective optimization for multiple relationship instances,joint optimization for both entities,and aggregation of diluted observations into the head concepts defining the relationship.We propose conceptualization solutions and validate them as well as the framework with extensive experiments.展开更多
基金the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Action Plan(No.19511120400)the National Key Research and Development Project(No.2020AAA0109302)the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project(No.2021SHZDZX0103)。
文摘Finding an attribute to explain the relationships between a given pair of entities is valuable in many applications.However,many direct solutions fail,owing to its low precision caused by heavy dependence on text and low recall by evidence scarcity.Thus,we propose a generalization-and-inference framework and implement it to build a system:entity-relationship finder(ERF).Our main idea is conceptualizing entity pairs into proper concept pairs,as intermediate random variables to form the explanation.Although entity conceptualization has been studied,it has new challenges of collective optimization for multiple relationship instances,joint optimization for both entities,and aggregation of diluted observations into the head concepts defining the relationship.We propose conceptualization solutions and validate them as well as the framework with extensive experiments.