Knowledge Graphs: Overview

Date: September 1, 2017

Speaker: Csongor Nyulas, BMIR, Stanford University

Abstract

Knowledge graphs are on a hype. We will look at a few attempts that try to define knowledge graphs: What are they? What are their characteristics? What are the most famous ones? How do they compare?

References

• Lisa Ehrlinger and Wolfram Wöß: Towards a Definition of Knowledge Graphs. SEMPDS-2016. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Vol. 1695.
• Michael Färber, Basil Ell, Carsten Menne, Achim Rettinger: A Comparative Survey of DBpedia, Freebase, OpenCyc, Wikidata, and YAGO. SWJ (PDF)
• Note: There is also a revised, extended version of this paper, for those interested

Also, highly recommended to look at these announcements/blogs:

• Google: Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings (A. Singhal, 2012): https://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/introducing-knowledge-graph-things-not.html (watch the video at the end, if you don't have time to read the article)
• Microsoft's Satori: Understand Your World with Bing (R. Qian, 2013): https://blogs.bing.com/search/2013/03/21/understand-your-world-with-bing

Presentation: Slides are available here.