Topic 01: Knowledge Base Construction (Demo or System)

Surveys

1. A Survey on Automatically Constructed Universal Knowledge Bases (Semantic Web 2018)
2. A Survey on Knowledge Graphs: Representation, Acquisition and Applications (2020) [Paper]
3. A survey of techniques for constructing Chinese knowledge graphs and their applications (Sustainability 2018)

General Papers

1. DeepDive: Incremental Knowledge Base Construction Using DeepDive (VLDB 2015) [Paper][Slides][Project link]🌟

• Distant Supervision; Build a fator graph containing both relation phrases and features.
• DeepDive Project (a good overview to follow the whole KBC pipeline) [Web]
• DeepDive: A Data Management System for Automatic Knowledge Base Construction. [Dr.Ce Zhang, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2015]

2. Mining Structures of Factual Knowledge from Text: An Effort-Light Approach [Paper]
3. CurEx – A System for Extracting, Curating, and Exploring Domain-Specific Knowledge Graphs from Text (CurEx, CIKM 2018)🌟
4. AliCoCo [SIGMOD 2020 Industry Track] [Github]🌟
5. Personalized Knowledge Graph Summarization: From the Cloud to Your Pocket (ICDM 2019) [Paper]🌟
6. YAGO 4: A Reasonable Knowledge Base (ESWC2020)
7. Deriving Validity Time in Knowledge Graph
8. Fonduer: Knowledge Base Construction from Richly Formatted Data (SIGMOD 2018) [PDF]🌟
9. Subjective Knowledge Base Construction Powered By Crowdsourcing and Knowledge Base (SIGMOD 2018) [PDF] 🌟
10. A Demonstration of Sya: A Spatial Probabilistic Knowledge Base Construction System (SIGMOD 2018) [PDF, demo]🌟
11. Subjective Databases [PDF] (VLDB 2019)🌟
12. Constructing High Precision Knowledge Bases with Subjective and Factual Attributes [Paper, Presentation, applied science track] (KDD 2019)
13. Sya: Enabling Spatial Awareness inside Probabilistic Knowledge Base Construction [Video][Slides][Paper] (ICDE 2020) 🌟
14. An Ontology-Based Conversation System for Knowledge Bases [Paper] (SIGMOD industry track 2020) 🌟
15. GIANT: Scalable Creation of a Web-scale Ontology [Paper] (SIGMOD industry track 2020) 🌟
16. CoRel: Seed-Guided Topical Taxonomy Construction by Concept Learning and Relation Transferring (KDD 2020)

Fact Finding

1. Maverick: A System for Discovering Exceptional Facts from Knowledge Graphs (VLDB 2018)[PDF, demo] 🌟
2. Maverick: Discovering Exceptional Facts from Knowledge Graphs (VLDB 2018) [PDF]🌟
3. Subjective Knowledge Base Construction Powered By Crowdsourcing and Knowledge Base (SIGMOD 2018) [PDF] 🌟

Personalized KG

1. Personalized Knowledge Graph Summarization: From the Cloud to Your Pocket [PDF] (ICDM 2019 best paper) 🌟

Knapsack, submodula objective function, (1 − {1}{e})-approximation algorithm

Webpages

1. Conceptualizing the Knowledge Graph Construction Pipeline [Web]
2. Topbase [Web]