Relation-Aware Neighborhood Aggregation for Cross-lingual Entity Alignment

Abstract

Cross-lingual entity alignment refers to linking entities in different language knowledge graphs if they are of identical meaning. Recent works focus on learning structure information of knowledge graphs and calculate the distance of entity embeddings for entity alignment. However, the GCN-based methods may bring noise from neighbors due to the heterogeneity of knowledge graphs. Besides, relations, as inherent attribute of knowledge graph, should be merged into the structure learning. In this paper, a relation-aware neighborhood aggregation model RANA is proposed to solve cross-lingual entity alignment task. The specific relation semantics are modeled to modify the aggregation weights of neighbors. CSLS and knowledge graph completion are introduced to enhance the alignment metric and structural information respectively. Experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate that RANA significantly outperforms other baselines in alignment accuracy and robustness.