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1. DBtrends
Exploring Query Logs for
Ranking RDF Data
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Edgard Marx, Amrapali Javeri,
Diego Moussallem, Sandro Rautenberg
12th International Conference on Semantic Systems

2. Outline
• Motivation
• Background
• Ranking using Query Logs
• Evaluation
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• Future Works
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Personal Data Enterprise Data
Motivation
Open Data
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4. 4
http://linkeddatacatalog.dws.informatik.uni-annheim.de/state/
"The size of LOD by 2014 was 31 billion triples"
"Facebook users generates 2.7 billion Like actions
per day and 300 million new
photos are uploaded daily"
Josh Constine, 2012
We Have Data
"Google Processing 20,000
Terabytes A Day, And Growing"
Erick Schonfeld, 2008
techcrunch.com
techcrunch.com
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Motivation

5. Not all of
data is relevant
We Have Data
Motivation
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We Have Data
Motivation
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7. We Have Data
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Motivation

8. Ranking
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9. Scenarios
Search Machine Learning Link Discovery
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10. Resource Description
Framework (RDF)
Concrete
E=MC²
Abstract
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Background
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Web of Data

11. Things
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Background
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Web of Data
• Semantic Search
• Entity Search
• Question Answering
• Named Entity Recognition
• Link Discovery
• Machine Learning
Use RDF Data
E=MC²

12. Ranking Functions (Types)
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"Give me all persons"
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Retrieve
Processing
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Ranking
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13. Ranking Functions (Types)
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"Give me all persons"
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Retrieve
Persons
Sort
Processing
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Ranking
Answer
Background
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14. Ranking Functions (Types)
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"Give me all persons"
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Retrieve
Persons
Sort
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Ranking
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Background
...Query dependent Query independent

15. Ranking
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Background
Page et al.1999

16. Ranking
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Background
Page et al.1999
2001
Lee et al.
Web of Data

17. Ranking RDF Data
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Background
Page et al.
2011
1999
Cheng et al. (Property)
2001
Lee et al.
Web of Data

18. Ranking RDF Data
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Background
Page et al.
Thalhammer et al.
2011
1999
2014
Cheng et al. (Property)
2001
Lee et al.
Web of Data

19. Benchmarks
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DBtrends Benchmark (Marx, 2016)
• 60 users from different countries (USA, India)
• 9 entity ranking functions applied to DBpedia Knowledge Base
• Users sort relevant classes, properties and entities
extracted from the top twenty entities belonging to the top four
classes
• Task were executed using Amazon Mechanical Turk
Previous Benchmarks
• Not public available
• Evaluate performace of 30 profiles
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20. Why use query logs?
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Ranking using Query Logs

21. Why use query logs?
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22. Why use query logs?
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Ranking using Query Logs
Query Logs
search...

23. Why use query logs?
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24. Why use query logs?
• Query logs provide relevant
information about user's
preference
• They refer to the real-world
entities
E=MC²
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25. Questions
• How to map real-world entities
to Web of Data?
• How to measure it's relevance?
• Where to find a good and trustable
query log?
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Ranking using Query Logs

26. How to map real world
resources?
• Rocha et al. (2004)
• Ding et al. (2005)
• Hogan et al. (2006)
• Alsarem et al (2015)
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Ranking using Query Logs
Query Logs
search...
Web of Data

27. How to measure the
resource's relevance?
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• Users search (more often) for
things that are relevant
• Query logs register how often
something is searched
• Query logs can be used for
better estimate resource's
relevance by looking how often
it is searched

28. Where to find a good and
trustable query log?
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29. Where to find a good and
trustable query log?
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30. Where to find a good and
trustable query log?
• Public API
• Filters
 Geographic
• Country
• State
• City
 Period
 Day
 Week
 Month
 Year
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31. DBtrends Ranking Function
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32. DBtrends Ranking Function
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Trendsdbr:New_York_City
“New York”
dbo:City
dbo:Place
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• First, the labels of the entities are extracted
and used to acquire the search history in
query logs e.g. GoogleTrends ( )2-

33. DBtrends Ranking Function
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Trendsdbr:New_York_City
“New York”
dbo:City
dbo:Place
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9 • First, the labels of the entities are extracted
and used to acquire the search history in
query logs e.g. GoogleTrends ( )
• Thereafter, the entity ranks are used as a
base to propagate the rank to the classes
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34. Entity Ranking Functions
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• MIXED-RANK
• DB-IN
• DB-OUT
• DB-RANK
• PAGE-IN
• PAGE-OUT
• PAGE-RANK
• E-PAGE-IN
• SEO-PA
• SHARED-LINKS
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35. Property/Class Ranking
Functions
• Instances
• Instances
Property
Class
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Evaluation
• Relin
• RandomRank
• Instances
• Instances

36. Results
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• PAGE-RANK
• E-PAGE-IN
• SHARED-LINKS
• SEO-PA
• DB-OUT
• PAGE-IN
• PAGE-OUT
• DB-IN
• DB-RANK
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Evaluation Entity

37. Results
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• MIXED-RANK
• PAGE-RANK
• E-PAGE-IN
• SHARED-LINKS
• SEO-PA
• DB-OUT
• PAGE-IN
• DBtrends
• PAGE-OUT
• DB-IN
• DB-RANK
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Evaluation Entity

38. Discussion
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• Functions that take into
consideration external information
provide more insights about
resource's relevance
• RDF Links reflect natural connections
rather than resouce's relevance
• MIXED-RANK
• PAGE-RANK
• E-PAGE-IN
• SHARED-LINKS
• SEO-PA
• DB-OUT
• PAGE-IN
• DBtrends
• PAGE-OUT
• DB-IN
• DB-RANK
Entity
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Evaluation

39. Discussion
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• There is no pattern in the impact
distribution of query longs
• Queries (not necessarly) help to
improve a ranking functions
• Internal agreement ~63%
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Evaluation Entity

40. Results
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• RandomRank
• Relin
• Instances
• Instances
• Instances
• Instances
Property
Class
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Evaluation

41. Discussion
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• RandomRank
• Relin
• Instances
• Instances
• Internal agreement ~37%
• Ranks are very sparse
• Not conclusive
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Evaluation Property

42. Discussion
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• Internal agreement ~67%
• Instances
• Instances
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Evaluation Class

43. Discussion
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dbo:PopulatedPlace
dbo:Settlement
dbo:Place
owl:Thing
A simple sort
can be very
effective
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Evaluation
dbo:PopulatedPlace
dbo:Settlement
dbo:Place
owl:Thing
• Instances
• Instances
Class

44. Discussion
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• Confidence in executing the tasks:
 Indians 90%
 Americans 60%
• Ranks produced by Indians were
more sparse
• Abstract entities appear before
entities
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Evaluation Caviats

45. Summary
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• Entity Ranking functions produce better results
when considering external information
• A simple sort of the number of instances can be
very effective for ranking classes
• Query logs can (not necessarily) improve entity
ranking functions
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Evaluation

46. Benchmark
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• Benchmark
• Ranking functions
• Library (Java)
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Evaluation
dbtrends.aksw.org

47. Future Works
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• Extend the evaluation to other
countries and ranking functions
• Evaluate the impact of
contex-aware ranking functions
• Use others similarity ranking
functions
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48. Acknowledgements
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