{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/knowledge-graph-embedding-methods-for-entity","title":"Knowledge Graph Embedding Methods for Entity Alignment: An Experimental Review","arxiv_id":"2203.09280","date":"2022-03-17","proceeding":null,"authors":["Nikolaos Fanourakis","Vasilis Efthymiou","Dimitris Kotzinos","Vassilis Christophides"],"abstract":"In recent years, we have witnessed the proliferation of knowledge graphs (KG) in various domains, aiming to support applications like question answering, recommendations, etc. A frequent task when integrating knowledge from different KGs is to find which subgraphs refer to the same real-world entity. Recently, embedding methods have been used for entity alignment tasks, that learn a vector-space representation of entities which preserves their similarity in the original KGs. A wide variety of supervised, unsupervised, and semi-supervised methods have been proposed that exploit both factual (attribute based) and structural information (relation based) of entities in the KGs. Still, a quantitative assessment of their strengths and weaknesses in real-world KGs according to different performance metrics and KG characteristics is missing from the literature. In this work, we conduct the first meta-level analysis of popular embedding methods for entity alignment, based on a statistically sound methodology. Our analysis reveals statistically significant correlations of different embedding methods with various meta-features extracted by KGs and rank them in a statistically significant way according to their effectiveness across all real-world KGs of our testbed. Finally, we study interesting trade-offs in terms of methods' effectiveness and efficiency.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.09280v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.09280v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"knowledge-graph-embedding-methods-for-entity","repo_url":"https://github.com/fanourakis/experimental-review-ea","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"attribute","task_name":"Attribute"},{"task_slug":"entity-alignment","task_name":"Entity Alignment"},{"task_slug":"graph-embedding","task_name":"Graph Embedding"},{"task_slug":"knowledge-graph-embedding","task_name":"Knowledge Graph Embedding"},{"task_slug":"knowledge-graphs","task_name":"Knowledge Graphs"},{"task_slug":"question-answering","task_name":"Question Answering"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"mtranse","method_name":"MTransE"},{"method_slug":"multike","method_name":"MultiKE"},{"method_slug":"rrea","method_name":"RREA"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}