Using dynamic knowledge graphs to detect emerging communities of knowledge

Abstract

Knowledge graphs represent relationships between entities. These graphs can take dynamic forms to trace changes along time through text models and further used by reasoning systems with the intent to answer queries. In this research we explore their applicability for extracting temporal patterns of knowledge in the form of communities. To this end, we propose a method for generating knowledge relationships over unconnected components of a knowledge graph, allowing for a targeted exploration of emerging contents in corpora. This analysis is applied to the corpora of the Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) publications over the last decade. We find the key knowledge communities over time and rank the underlying concepts. Results show that the publication efforts increasingly focus on graph research and the creation of relationships instead of new concepts. The acquired results confirm the validity of the proposed knowledge discovery methodology for community-centered analysis of emerging changes in dynamic knowledge graphs.