Knowledge Base Reasoning with Convolutional-Based Recurrent Neural Networks

Recurrent neural network(RNN) has achieved remarkable performances in complex reasoning on knowledge bases, which usually takes as inputs vector embeddings of relations along a path between an entity pair. However, it is insufficient to extract local correlations of a path due to RNN is better at capturing global sequential information of a path. In this paper, we take full advantages of convolutional neural network that can effectively extract local features, and propose a convolutional-based RNN architecture denoted as C-RNN to perform reasoning. C-RNN first utilizes CNN to extract local high-level correlation features of a path, and then feeds the correlation features into recurrent neural network to model the path representation. Our C-RNN architecture is adaptable to obtain not only local features but also global sequential features of a path. Based on C-RNN architecture, we devise two models, the unidirectional C-RNN and bidirectional C-RNN. We empirically evaluate them on a large-scale FreeBase+ClueWeb prediction task. Experimental results show that C-RNN models achieve state-of-the-art predictive performance.