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Backup
Beyond research data infrastructures - exploiting artificial & crowd
intelligence for building research knowledge graphs
Stefan Dietze
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences &
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
LWDA2019, 02 October 2019

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Backup
Beyond research data infrastructures - exploiting artificial & crowd
intelligence for building research knowledge graphs
Stefan Dietze
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences &
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
LWDA2019, 02 October 2019
research data
infrastructure
data fusion
distant
supervision
Web mining
distributional
semantics
knowledge
graph
neural entity
linking
research data
machine
learning
social web
artificial
intelligence
semantics
claim extraction
stance
detection
fact verification crowd
(Buzzword) Bingo !?

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Finding research data on the Web?
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Finding research data on the Web?
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Finding research data on the Web?
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Finding (social sciences) research data on the Web
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Traditional & novel forms of research data: the case of social sciences
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 Traditional social science research data: survey & census
data, microdata, lab studies etc (lack of scale, dynamics)
 Social science vision: substituting & complementing
traditional research data through data mined from the Web
 Example: investigations into misinformation and opinion
forming (e.g. [Vousoughi et al. 2018])
 Aims usually at investigating insights by also dealing with
methodological/computational challenges
 Insights, mostly (computational) social sciences, e.g.
o Spreading of claims and misinformation
o Effect of biased and fake news on public opinions
o Reinforcement of biases and echo chambers
 Methods, mostly in computer science, e.g. for
o Crawling, harvesting, scraping of data
o Extraction of structured knowledge
(entities, sentiments, stances, claims, etc)
o Claim/fact detection and verification („fake news
detection“), e.g. CLEF 2018 Fact Checking Lab
o Stance detection, e.g. Fake News Challenge (FNC)

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Part I
Mining, fusing and linking research data (in particular: metadata) on the Web
Part II
Mining novel forms of research knowledge graphs from the Web
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Datasets
Metadata
Publications
Web pages
Opinions
Claims
Stances
Overview

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Web mining of dataset metadata (or: dataset KGs)
 Harvesting from open data portals (e.g. DCAT/VoID-
metadata on DataHub.io, DataCite etc.)
 Information extraction on long tail of Web documents?
=> dynamics & scale: approx. 50 trn (50.000.000.000.000)
Web pages indexed by Google (plus gazillion of temporal
snapshots)
 Embedded markup (RDFa, Microdata, Microformats) for
annotation of Web pages
 Supports Web search & interpretation
 Pushed by Google, Yahoo, Bing et al
(schema.org vocabulary)
 Adoption on the Web by 38% all Web pages
(sample: Common Crawl 2016, 3.2 bn Web pages)
 Easily accesible, large-scale source of factual knowledge
(about research data & research information)
 Large-scale source of training data, e.g. manually
annotated Web pages citing datasets
Facts (“quads”)
node1 name WB Commodity URI-1
node1 distribution node_xy URI-1
node1 creator Worldbank URI-1
node1 dateCreated 26 April 2017 URI-1
node2 creator World Bank URI-2
node2 encodingFormat text/CSV URI-2
node3 dateCreated 26 April 2007 URI-3
node3 keywords crude URI-3
<div itemscope itemtype ="http://schema.org/Dataset">
<h1 itemprop="name">World Bank-Commodity Prices</h1>
<span itemprop=„distribution">URL-X</span>
<span itemprop=„license">CC-BY</span>
...
</div>
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Research dataset markup on the Web
 In Common Crawl 2017 (3.2 bn pages):
o 14.1 M statements & 3.4 M instances
related to „s:Dataset“
o Spread across 200 K pages from 2878 PLDs
(top 10% of PLDs provide 95% of data)
 Studies of scholarly articles and other types
[SAVESD16, WWW2017]: majority of major
publishers, data hosting sites, data registries,
libraries, research organisations respresented
power law distribution of dataset metadata across PLDs
 Challenges
o Errors. Factual errors, annotation errors (see
also [Meusel et al, ESWC2015])
o Ambiguity & coreferences. e.g. 18.000 entity
descriptions of “iPhone 6” in Common Crawl
2016 & ambiguous literals (e.g. „Apple“>)
o Redundancies & conflicts vast amounts of
equivalent or conflicting statements

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 0. Noise: data cleansing (node URIs, deduplication etc)
 1.a) Scale: Blocking through BM25 entity retrieval on markup index
 1.b) Relevance: supervised coreference resolution
 2.) Quality & redundancy: data fusion through supervised fact classification (SVM, knn, RF, LR, NB), diverse
feature set (authority, relevance etc), considering source- (eg PageRank), entity-, & fact-level
KnowMore: data fusion on markup
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1. Blocking &
coreference
resolution
2. Fusion / Fact selection
New Queries
WorldBank, type:(Organization)
Washington, type:(City)
David Malpass, type:(Person)
(supervised)
Entity Description
name
“WorldBank Commodity
Prices 2019”
distribution Worldbank (node)
releaseDate 26.04.2019
keywords „crude”, “prizes”, “market”
encodingFormat text/CSV
Query
WorldBank Commodity,
Prices 2019, type:(Dataset)
Candidate Facts
node1 name WB Commodity
node1 distribution node_xy
node1 creator Worldbank
node1 dateReleased 26 April 2019
node2 creator World Bank
node2 encodingFormat text/CSV
node3 dateCreated 26 April 2007
node4 keywords “crude”
Web page
markup
Web crawl
(Common Crawl,
44 bn facts)
approx. 125.000 facts for query [ s:Product, „iPhone6“ ]
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Yu, R., [..], Dietze, S., KnowMore-Knowledge Base
Augmentation with Structured Web Markup, Semantic
Web Journal 2019 (SWJ2019)
Tempelmeier, N., Demidova, S., Dietze, S., Inferring
Missing Categorical Information in Noisy and Sparse
Web Markup, The Web Conf. 2018 (WWW2018)

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 0. Noise: data cleansing (node URIs, deduplication etc)
 1.a) Scale: Blocking through BM25 entity retrieval on markup index
 1.b) Relevance: supervised coreference resolution
 2.) Quality & redundancy: data fusion through supervised fact classification (SVM, knn, RF, LR, NB), diverse
feature set (authority, relevance etc), considering source- (eg PageRank), entity-, & fact-level
KnowMore: data fusion on markup
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1. Blocking &
coreference
resolution
2. Fusion / Fact selection
New Queries
WorldBank, type:(Organization)
Washington, type:(City)
David Malpass, type:(Person)
(supervised)
Entity Description
name
“WorldBank Commodity
Prices 2019”
distribution Worldbank (node)
releaseDate 26.04.2019
keywords „crude”, “prizes”, “market”
encodingFormat text/CSV
Query
WorldBank Commodity,
Prices 2019, type:(Dataset)
Candidate Facts
node1 name WB Commodity
node1 distribution node_xy
node1 creator Worldbank
node1 dateReleased 26 April 2019
node2 creator World Bank
node2 encodingFormat text/CSV
node3 dateCreated 26 April 2007
node4 keywords “crude”
Web page
markup
Web crawl
(Common Crawl,
44 bn facts)
approx. 125.000 facts for query [ s:Product, „iPhone6“ ]
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Yu, R., [..], Dietze, S., KnowMore-Knowledge Base
Augmentation with Structured Web Markup, Semantic
Web Journal 2019 (SWJ2019)
Tempelmeier, N., Demidova, S., Dietze, S., Inferring
Missing Categorical Information in Noisy and Sparse
Web Markup, The Web Conf. 2018 (WWW2018)
Fusion performance
 Experiments on books, movies, products (ongoing: datasets)
 Baselines: BM25, CBFS [ESWC2015], PreRecCorr [Pochampally
et. al., ACM SIGMOD 2014], strong variance across types
Knowledge Graph Augmentation
 On average 60% - 70% of all facts new (across DBpedia,
Wikidata, Freebase)
 Additional experiments on learning new categorical features
(e.g. product categories or movie genres) [WWW2018]

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Rich Context & Coleridge Initiative
building (yet another) KG of scholarly resources & datasets
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 Context/corpus: publications
(currently: social sciences, SAGE Publishing)
 Tasks:
I. Extraction/disambiguation of dataset mentions
II. Extraction/detection of research methods
III. Classification of research fields
https://coleridgeinitiative.org/richcontextcompetition

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Applications: search for social science resources (and links)
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https://search.gesis.org/

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Disambiguation of dataset citations Otto, W. et al., Knowledge Extraction from scholarly
publications – the GESIS contribution to the Rich Context
Competition, to appear, Sage Publishing, 2020
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All these issues are addressed in the current report,
which is based on analysis of data obtained in the
National Comorbidity Survey (NCS) (15). The NCS is
a nationally representative survey of the US household
population that includes retrospective reports about the
ages at onset and lifetime occurrences of suicidal
ideation, plans, and attempts along with information
about the occurrences of mental disorders, substance
use, substance abuse, and substance dependence.
National Comorbidity Survey (NCS) NCS
Challenges
 Ambiguous (incomplete) citations
 Lack of high-quality and representative training
data (usually: weak labels, domain bias)
Approaches & results
 Prior work: supervised pattern induction
[Boland et al, TPDL2012]
 Current approach:
o neural NER based on spaCy (CRF-based
approach for research method detection)
o Training (testing) on 12.000 (3.000) paragraphs
(distribution of negative/positive differs,
training batch size=25, dropout=0.4)
o Results approx. P = .50, R= .90 (weakly labelled
test data)
o On small set of manually labelled test data:
P= .52; R= .21)

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Profiling datasets
for dataset search
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 Dataset metadata is crucial for search,
discovery, reuse
 But: dataset metadata is sparse,
incomplete, noisy, costly
 Profiling datasets = generating dataset
metadata from actual data(set) at
hand
 Various profiling dimensions
depending on use case (e.g. statistical
features, dynamics, topics), cf.
[SWJ18]
 Works on topic profiling [ESWC14] and
profiling of graph features [ESWC19]
Ben Ellefi, M., Bellahsene, Z., Breslin, J., Demidova, E., Dietze, S., Szymanski, J.,
Todorov, K., RDF Dataset Profiling – a Survey of Features, Methods,
Vocabularies and Applications, Semantic Web Journal, IOS Press 2018
Fetahu, B., Dietze, S., Nunes, B. P., Casanova, M. A., Nejdl, W., A Scalable
Approach for Efficiently Generating Structured Dataset Topic Profiles,
ESWC2014

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Profiling (Graph) Datasets
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 Graph metrics essential to
describe/profile research datasets of
graph-based nature (social graphs,
knowledge graphs) in order to:
 Distinguish dataset categories
 Find/discover datasets with
particular features
 Generate synthetic data, e.g., for
query benchmarks
 Sample subsets while maintaining
graph topology (e.g. to investigate
network effects in social sciences
research)
 Research question: effective and
discriminative features (non-redundant,
non-noisy) for representing specific
categories of datasets
Zloch, M., Acosta, M., Hienert, D., Dietze, S., Conrad, S., A
Software Framework and Datasets for the Analysis of Graph
Measures on RDF Graphs, ESWC19, Best Student Paper
Feature correlation matrix

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Noisy vs. homogenous
features
Lighter colour = more
homogenous metric within
domain
Profiling (Graph) Datasets Zloch, M., Acosta, M., Hienert, D., Dietze, S., Conrad, S., A
Software Framework and Datasets for the Analysis of Graph
Measures on RDF Graphs, ESWC19, Best Student Paper
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Discriminative features
Descriptive features able
to characterise specific
dataset categories
(= feature impact in binary
classification task aimed at
distinguishing each
dataset category)
 Certain kinds of datasets (categories) hard to
describe due to inherent diversity/variance of
datasets
 Selection of descriptive, non-redundant dataset
profile features vary for different dataset categories
(and use cases)

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Overview
Part I
Mining, fusing and linking research data (in particular: metadata) on the Web
Part II
Mining novel forms of research data knowledge graphs from the Web
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Datasets
Metadata
Publications
Web pages
Opinions
Claims
Stances

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http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tim_Berners-Lee
wna:positive-emotion
onyx:hasEmotionIntensity "0.75"
onyx:hasEmotionIntensity "0.0"
Mining opinions & interactions (the case of Twitter)
 Heterogenity: multimodal, multilingual, informal,
“noisy” language
 Context dependence: interpretation of
tweets/posts (entities, sentiments) requires
consideration of context (e.g. time, linked
content), “Dusseldorf” => City or Football team
 Dynamics & scale: e.g. 6000 tweets per second,
plus interactions (retweets etc) and context (e.g.
25% of tweets contain URLs)
 Evolution and temporal aspects: evolution of
interactions over time crucial for many social
sciences questions
 Representativity and bias: demographic
distributions not known a priori in archived data
collections
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Solid
wna:negative-emotion
P. Fafalios, V. Iosifidis, E. Ntoutsi, and S. Dietze, TweetsKB: A Public
and Large-Scale RDF Corpus of Annotated Tweets, ESWC'18.

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P. Fafalios, V. Iosifidis, E. Ntoutsi, and S. Dietze, TweetsKB: A Public
and Large-Scale RDF Corpus of Annotated Tweets, ESWC'18.
TweetsKB: a knowledge graph of Web mined “opinions”
https://data.gesis.org/tweetskb/
 Harvesting & archiving of 9 Bn tweets over 6 years
(permanent collection from Twitter 1% sample since
2013)
 Information extraction pipeline to build a KG of entities,
interactions & sentiments
(distributed batch processing via Hadoop Map/Reduce)
o Entity linking with knowledge graph/DBpedia
(Yahoo‘s FEL [Blanco et al. 2015])
(“president”/“potus”/”trump” =>
dbp:DonaldTrump), to disambiguate text and use
background knowledge (eg US politicians?
Republicans?), high precision (.85), low recall (.39)
o Sentiment analysis/annotation using SentiStrength
[Thelwall et al., 2017], F1 approx. .80
o Extraction of metadata and lifting into established
schemas (SIOC, schema.org), publication using W3C
standards (RDF/SPARQL)

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P. Fafalios, V. Iosifidis, E. Ntoutsi, and S. Dietze, TweetsKB: A Public
and Large-Scale RDF Corpus of Annotated Tweets, ESWC'18.
 Harvesting & archiving of 9 Bn tweets over 5 years
(permanent collection from Twitter 1% sample since
2013)
 Information extraction pipeline (distributed via Hadoop
Map/Reduce)
o Entity linking with knowledge graph/DBpedia
(Yahoo‘s FEL [Blanco et al. 2015])
(“president”/“potus”/”trump” =>
dbp:DonaldTrump), to disambiguate text and use
background knowledge (eg US politicians?
Republicans?), high precision (.85), low recall (.39)
o Sentiment analysis/annotation using SentiStrength
[Thelwall et al., 2012], F1 approx. .80
o Extraction of metadata and lifting into established
schemas (SIOC, schema.org), publication using W3C
standards (RDF/SPARQL)
Use cases
 Aggregating sentiments towards topics/entities, e.g. about
CDU vs SPD politicians in particular time period
 Twitter archives as general corpus for understanding temporal
entity relatedness (e.g. “austerity” & “Greece” 2010-2015)
 Investigating spreading & impact of fake news
(e.g. TweetsKB, ClaimsKG, stance detection)
Limitations
 Bias & representativity: demographic distributions of users
(not known a priori and not representative)
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TweetsKB: a knowledge graph of Web mined “opinions”

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Research datasets (mentions/citations) on Twitter?
https://data.gesis.org/tweetskb/
Daily mentions of datasets (DOIs, literals)
in TweetsKB
(approx. 20.000 mentions of datasets per
month)
Why?
- Discovering long tail datasets
- Dataset popularity, trends, „paradata“,
usage, context
Plot © Robert Jäschke

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Mining/finding knowledge about claims and stances
stance,
claim trustworthiness?
stance,
claim trustworthiness?

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Detecting stances towards claims/opinions
Motivation
 Problem: detecting stance of documents (e.g. Web
pages, scientific publication) towards a given claim
(unbalanced class distribution)
 Motivation: stance of documents (in particular
disagreement) useful (a) as signal for truthfulness
(fake news detection) and (b) Document or Source
classification (PLDs, publishers)
Approach
 Cascading binary classifiers: addressing individual
issues (e.g. misclassification costs) per step
 Features, e.g. textual similarity (Word2Vec etc),
sentiments, LIWC, etc.
 Best-performing models: 1) SVM with class-wise
penalty, 2) CNN, 3) SVM with class-wise penalty
 Experiments on FNC-1 dataset (and FNC baselines)
Results
 Minor overall performance improvement
 Improvement on disagree class by 27%
(but still far from robust)
A. Roy, A. Ekbal, S. Dietze, P. Fafalios, Exploiting
stance hierarchies for cost-sensitive stance detection
of Web documents, WSDM2020 under review.
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ClaimsKG: a knowledge graph of claims and claim-related metadata
Motivation
 Claims spread across various
(unstructured) fact-checking sites
 Example: finding claims about / made by
US republican politicians across the Web?
Approach
 Harvesting claims & metadata from fact-
checking sites (e.g. snopes.com,
Politifact.com etc); currently approx.
30.000 claims (plus mining
schema.org/ClaimReview markup (>
500.000 statements in Common Crawl
2017)
 Information extraction & linking
o Linking mentioned entities to DBpedia
o Normalisation of ratings (true, false,
mixture, other); coreference resolution
of claims
o Exposing data through established
vocabulary and W3C standards
(e.g. SPARQL endpoint)
https://data.gesis.org/claimskg/
A. Tchechmedjiev, P. Fafalios, K. Boland, S. Dietze, B. Zapilko, K.
Todorov, ClaimsKG – A Live Knowledge Graph of fact-checked Claims,
ISWC2019

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Conclusions
Mining and profiling of research dataset metadata (KGs)
 Mining of unstructured Web pages and scholarly articles for research datasets &
metadata
 Profiling of research datasets for discovery, sampling, generation of synthetic data
 Plenty of related initiatives and efforts
(e.g. Rich Context, Research Graph, OpenAIRE, ORKG)
 Some challenges: generalisable/reusable methods for extraction & mining across
domains and corpora
Mining and sharing novel forms of research data (KGs)
 Mining the Web for novel forms of research data
 Examples from social sciences: opinions (sentiments on entities) and interactions
on Twitter & structured knowledge about resource relations (for instance: stances)
and claims
 Some challenges: language understanding/interpretation, representativity and
bias
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Acknowledgements
Co-authors
• Maribel Acosta (KIT, Karlsruhe)
• Mohamad Ben Ellefi (LIRMM, France)
• Katarina Boland (GESIS, Germany)
• Stefan Conrad (HHU, Germany)
• Elena Demidova (L3S, Germany)
• Asif Ekbal (IIT Patna, India)
• Pavlos Fafalios (L3S, Germany)
• Ujwal Gadiraju (L3S, Germany)
• Daniel Hienert (GESIS, Germany)
• Peter Holtz (IWM, Germany)
• Eirini Ntoutsi (LUH, Germany)
• Vasilis Iosifidis (L3S, Germany)
• Markus Rokicki (L3S, Germany)
• Arjun Roy (IIT Patna, India)
• Renato Stoffalette Joao (L3S, Germany)
• Davide Taibi (CNR, ITD, Italy)
• Nicolas Tempelmeier (L3S, Germany)
• Konstantin Todorov (LIRMM, France)
• Ran Yu (GESIS, Germany)
• Benjamin Zapilko (GESIS, Germany)
• Matthäus Zloch (GESIS, Germany)
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Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences (WTS)
https://www.gesis.org/en/institute/departments/knowledge-technologies-for-the-social-sciences/
WTS Labs
https://www.gesis.org/en/research/applied-computer-science/labs/wts-research-labs
Data & Knowledge Engineering @ HHU
https://www.cs.hhu.de/en/research-groups/data-knowledge-engineering.html
L3S
http://www.l3s.de
Personal
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