SiGMa: Simple Greedy Matching for Aligning Large Knowledge Bases
This addresses the challenge of efficiently unifying complementary structured knowledge from diverse sources for complex queries, with incremental improvements in scalability and performance.
The paper tackles the problem of aligning large-scale knowledge bases with millions of entities by introducing SiGMa, a simple greedy matching algorithm that leverages structural and similarity information, achieving high precision and outperforming state-of-the-art methods in accuracy and efficiency on benchmark datasets.
The Internet has enabled the creation of a growing number of large-scale knowledge bases in a variety of domains containing complementary information. Tools for automatically aligning these knowledge bases would make it possible to unify many sources of structured knowledge and answer complex queries. However, the efficient alignment of large-scale knowledge bases still poses a considerable challenge. Here, we present Simple Greedy Matching (SiGMa), a simple algorithm for aligning knowledge bases with millions of entities and facts. SiGMa is an iterative propagation algorithm which leverages both the structural information from the relationship graph as well as flexible similarity measures between entity properties in a greedy local search, thus making it scalable. Despite its greedy nature, our experiments indicate that SiGMa can efficiently match some of the world's largest knowledge bases with high precision. We provide additional experiments on benchmark datasets which demonstrate that SiGMa can outperform state-of-the-art approaches both in accuracy and efficiency.