Methods for Integrating Information in Data, Language Models, and Knowledge Graphs for Neurosymbolic Learning and Reasoning

A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489). This special issue belongs to the section "Information Processes".

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Dear Colleagues,

Neurosymbolic learning and reasoning systems aim to unify the strengths of symbolic reasoning and neural networks. This area of research focuses on integrating various forms of information—from unstructured data and language models to structured knowledge graphs—into a cohesive framework that enhances learning and reasoning capabilities. The core challenge lies in developing methods that effectively combine these diverse information sources, enabling declarative and procedural knowledge to be incorporated into neural architectures or vice versa. Key areas of exploration include the embedding of knowledge graphs within neural networks, synergizing symbolic reasoning with language models, and building unified representations of unstructured data and structured knowledge to enhance neurosymbolic learning methods.

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Keywords

  • language models
  • knowledge graphs
  • neurosymbolic AI

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Construction of Legal Knowledge Graph Based on Knowledge-Enhanced Large Language Models
by Jun Li, Lu Qian, Peifeng Liu and Taoxiong Liu
Information 2024, 15(11), 666; https://doi.org/10.3390/info15110666 - 23 Oct 2024
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Abstract
Legal knowledge involves multidimensional heterogeneous knowledge such as legal provisions, judicial interpretations, judicial cases, and defenses, which requires extremely high relevance and accuracy of knowledge. Meanwhile, the construction of a legal knowledge reasoning system also faces challenges in obtaining, processing, and sharing multisource [...] Read more.
Legal knowledge involves multidimensional heterogeneous knowledge such as legal provisions, judicial interpretations, judicial cases, and defenses, which requires extremely high relevance and accuracy of knowledge. Meanwhile, the construction of a legal knowledge reasoning system also faces challenges in obtaining, processing, and sharing multisource heterogeneous knowledge. The knowledge graph technology, which is a knowledge organization form with triples as the basic unit, is able to efficiently transform multisource heterogeneous information into a knowledge representation form close to human cognition. Taking the automated construction of the Chinese legal knowledge graph (CLKG) as a case scenario, this paper presents a joint knowledge enhancement model (JKEM), where prior knowledge is embedded into a large language model (LLM), and the LLM is fine-tuned through the prefix of the prior knowledge data. Under the condition of freezing most parameters of the LLM, this fine-tuning scheme adds continuous deep prompts as prefix tokens to the input sequences of different layers, which can significantly improve the accuracy of knowledge extraction. The results show that the knowledge extraction accuracy of the JKEM in this paper reaches 90.92%. Based on the superior performance of this model, the CLKG is further constructed, which contains 3480 knowledge triples composed of 9 entities and 2 relationships, providing strong support for an in-depth understanding of the complex relationships in the legal field. Full article
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