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Knowledge Graph Embedding: A Survey of Approaches and Applications

Wang, Quan, Mao, Zhendong, Wang, Bin, Guo, Li·2017·IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Abstract

Knowledge graph (KG) embedding is to embed components of a KG including entities and relations into continuous vector spaces, so as to simplify the manipulation while preserving the inherent structure of the KG. It can benefit a variety of downstream tasks such as KG completion and relation extraction, and hence has quickly gained massive attention. In this article, we provide a systematic review of existing techniques, including not only the state-of-the-arts but also those with latest trends. Particularly, we make the review based on the type of information used in the embedding task. Techniques that conduct embedding using only facts observed in the KG are first introduced. We describe the overall framework, specific model design, typical training procedures, as well as pros and cons of such techniques. After that, we discuss techniques that further incorporate additional information besides facts. We focus specifically on the use of entity types, relation paths, textual descriptions, and logical rules. Finally, we briefly introduce how KG embedding can be applied to and benefit a wide variety of downstream tasks such as KG completion, relation extraction, question answering, and so forth.

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Authors
Wang, Q., Mao, Z., Wang, B., & Guo, L.
Affiliations
  • State Key Laboratory of Information Security (CN)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
Venue
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Published
2017-12-01
Volume
29
Issue
12
Pages
2724-2743
ISSN
1041-4347 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2759136286
Cited by
2,654
References
135
Citations by year
2026: 188 · 2025: 288 · 2024: 346 · 2023: 438 · 2022: 397 · 2021: 418 · 2020: 324 · 2019: 181 · 2018: 70 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 1
FWCI
92.82
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016QY03D0503, 2016QY03D0505)
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (61402465, 61502477)
  • Fundamental Theory and Cutting Edge Technology Research Program
  • Institute of Information Engineering
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (Y7Z0261101)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Advanced Graph Neural Networks
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Recommender Systems and Techniques
Keywords
knowledge graph embedding, entity embeddings, relation embeddings, knowledge graph completion, relation extraction, entity types, textual description, logical rules, question answering

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