A multimodal alignment and attention fusion framework for knowledge graph construction: joint extraction and evaluation in the context of ICH (a case study of Anhui)
摘要
The digital preservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) encounters considerable difficulties due to the limitations of traditional knowledge graphs in representing and integrating multimodal data. In response, a novel Multimodal Alignment (MA) and attention fusion framework is proposed for constructing a comprehensive ICH knowledge graph. Our approach systematically processes textual, image, audio, and video data through a pipeline encompassing Multimodal Fusion (MF), alignment, and joint entity-relation extraction. The core of our method leverages a visual-guided attention mechanism, where features extracted from ICH imagery and keyframes are injected into a Transformer-based text encoder. To deal with the semantic differences of various modalities, an alignment loss technique with Jensen-Shannon Divergence (JSD) is introduced by us. This results in a fully-fledged “relational pattern-ontology mapping-temporal alignment” strategy that is uniquely tailored for knowledge related to ICH. Experimental results on a self-constructed multimodal dataset of Anhui ICH illustrate that our model attains state-of-the-art performance, with an F1-score of 78.95% in triplet extraction, significantly outperforming strong baselines like BLIP and ERNIE-ViL. The constructed knowledge graph, comprising 10,824 nodes, enables intuitive visualization and complex querying, effectively supporting the three-dimensional preservation of ICH practices. This study provides a reusable technical framework and valuable insights for the digital safeguarding and revitalization of ICH.