Neural Multi-hop Logical Query Answering with Concept-Level Answers

Zhenwei Tang*, Shichao Pei, Xi Peng, Fuzhen Zhuang, Xiangliang Zhang, Robert Hoehndorf

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Abstract

Neural multi-hop logical query answering (LQA) is a fundamental task to explore relational data such as knowledge graphs, which aims at answering multi-hop queries with logical operations based on distributed representations of queries and answers. Although previous LQA methods can give specific instance-level answers, they are not able to provide descriptive concept-level answers, where each concept is a description of a set of instances. Concept-level answers are more comprehensible to users and are of great usefulness in the field of applied ontology. In this work, we formulate the problem of LQA with concept-level answers (LQAC), solving which needs to address challenges in incorporating, representing, and operating on concepts. We propose an original solution for LQAC. Firstly, we incorporate description logic-based ontological axioms to provide the source of concepts. Then, we represent concepts and queries as fuzzy sets, i.e., sets whose elements have degrees of membership, to bridge concepts and queries with instances. Moreover, we design operators involving concepts on top of fuzzy set representation of concepts and queries for optimization and inference. Extensive experimental results on three real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method for LQAC. In particular, we show that our method is promising in discovering complex logical biomedical facts.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationThe Semantic Web – ISWC 2023 - 22nd International Semantic Web Conference, Proceedings
EditorsTerry R. Payne, Valentina Presutti, Guilin Qi, María Poveda-Villalón, Giorgos Stoilos, Laura Hollink, Zoi Kaoudi, Gong Cheng, Juanzi Li
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages522-540
Number of pages19
ISBN (Print)9783031472398
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event22nd International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2023 - Athens, Greece
Duration: Nov 6 2023Nov 10 2023

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume14265 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference22nd International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2023
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityAthens
Period11/6/2311/10/23

Keywords

  • Fuzzy Logic
  • Knowledge Representation Learning
  • Multi-hop Logical Query Answering
  • Neuro-symbolic Reasoning

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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