Rule mining has emerged as a crucial technique in data mining and knowledge discovery, enabling the extraction of valuable insights and patterns from vast datasets. This has garnered significant attention from both academic and industrial communities. However, there is a lack of bibliometric and visualization research on rule mining, leading to an unclear delineation of research topics and trends in the field. To fill this gap, this paper provides a comprehensive and up-to-date bibliometric analysis of rule mining, covering 4524 publications published between 1987 and 2022. Using various metrics and visualization techniques, we examine the patterns, trends, and evolution of rule mining. The results show a sustained growth in rule mining research, with a significant increase in publication output in recent years, and its rapid expansion into new areas such as explainable artificial intelligence and privacy protection. While the majority of publications come from Asia, the National Natural Science Foundation of China emerges as the top funding agency in the field. We also identify highly productive authors and significant members of co-authorship networks, as well as the most influential publications and citation bursts. The need for international collaboration and the integration of diverse research perspectives is highlighted. Despite the progress in rule mining, several challenges still require further research, including scalability and efficiency, explainability, network security and privacy protection, and personalized and user-centered design. Overall, this paper provides a valuable roadmap for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners interested in rule-mining research.

ABSTRACT Making medication prescriptions in response to the patient's diagnosis is a challenging task. The number of pharmaceutical companies, their inventory of medicines, and the recommended dosage confront a doctor with the well-known problem of information and cognitive overload. To assist a medical practitioner in making informed decisions regarding a medical prescription to a patient, researchers have exploited electronic health records (EHRs) in automatically recommending medication. In recent years, medication recommendation using EHRs has been a salient research direction, which has attracted researchers to apply various deep learning (DL) models to the EHRs of patients in recommending prescriptions. Yet, in the absence of a holistic survey article, it needs a lot of effort and time to study these publications in order to understand the current state of research and identify the best-performing models along with the trends and challenges. To fill this research gap, this survey reports on state-of-the-art DL-based medication recommendation methods. It reviews the classification of DL-based medication recommendation (MR) models, compares their performance, and the unavoidable issues they face. It reports on the most common datasets and metrics used in evaluating MR models. The findings of this study have implications for researchers interested in MR models.

Multi-modal entity linking plays a crucial role in a wide range of knowledge-based modal-fusion tasks, i.e., multi-modal retrieval and multi-modal event extraction. We introduce the new ZEro-shot Multi-modal Entity Linking (ZEMEL) task, the format is similar to multi-modal entity linking, but multi-modal mentions are linked to unseen entities in the knowledge graph, and the purpose of zero-shot setting is to realize robust linking in highly specialized domains. Simultaneously, the inference efficiency of existing models is low when there are many candidate entities. On this account, we propose a novel model that leverages visuallinguistic representation through the co-attentional mechanism to deal with the ZEMEL task, considering the trade-off between performance and efficiency of the model. We also build a dataset named ZEMELD for the new task, which contains multi-modal data resources collected from Wikipedia, and we annotate the entities as ground truth. Extensive experimental results on the dataset show that our proposed model is effective as it significantly improves the precision from 68.93% to 82.62% comparing with baselines in the ZEMEL task.

Existing visual scene understanding methods mainly focus on identifying coarse-grained concepts about the visual objects and their relationships, largely neglecting fine-grained scene understanding. In fact, many data-driven applications on the Web (e.g., news-reading and e-shopping) require accurate recognition of much less coarse concepts as entities and proper linking them to a knowledge graph (KG), which can take their performance to the next level. In light of this, in this paper, we identify a new research task: visual entity linking for fine-grained scene understanding. To accomplish the task, we first extract features of candidate entities from different modalities, i.e., visual features, textual features, and KG features. Then, we design a deep modal-attention neural network-based learning-to-rank method which aggregates all features and maps visual objects to the entities in KG. Extensive experimental results on the newly constructed dataset show that our proposed method is effective as it significantly improves the accuracy performance from 66.46% to 83.16% compared with baselines.

The early concept of knowledge graph originates from the idea of the semantic Web, which aims at using structured graphs to model the knowledge of the world and record the relationships that exist between things. Currently publishing knowledge bases as open data on the Web has gained significant attention. In China, Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPS) launched the OpenKG in 2015 to foster the development of Chinese Open Knowledge Graphs. Unlike existing open knowledge-based programs, OpenKG chain is envisioned as a blockchain-based open knowledge infrastructure. This article introduces the first attempt at the implementation of sharing knowledge graphs on OpenKG chain, a blockchain-based trust network. We have completed the test of the underlying blockchain platform, and the on-chain test of OpenKG's data set and tool set sharing as well as fine-grained knowledge crowdsourcing at the triple level. We have also proposed novel definitions: K-Point and OpenKG Token, which can be considered to be a measurement of knowledge value and user value. 1,033 knowledge contributors have been involved in two months of testing on the blockchain, and the cumulative number of on-chain recordings triggered by real knowledge consumers has reached 550,000 with an average daily peak value of more than 10,000. For the first time, we have tested and realized on-chain sharing of knowledge at entity/triple granularity level. At present, all operations on the data sets and tool sets at OpenKG.CN, as well as the triplets at OpenBase, are recorded on the chain, and corresponding value will also be generated and assigned in a trusted mode. Via this effort, OpenKG chain looks forward to providing a more credible and traceable knowledge-sharing platform for the knowledge graph community.