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The Web of Linked Data is composed of tons of RDF documents interlinked to each other forming a huge repository of distributed semantic data. Effectively querying this distributed data source is an important open problem in the Semantic Web…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Olaf Hartig , Jorge Pérez

Interacting with knowledge graphs can be a daunting task for people without a background in computer science since the query language that is used (SPARQL) has a high barrier of entry. Large language models (LLMs) can lower that barrier by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Felix Brei , Lorenz Bühmann , Johannes Frey , Daniel Gerber , Lars-Peter Meyer , Claus Stadler , Kirill Bulert

Regular Path Queries (RPQs), which are essentially regular expressions to be matched against the labels of paths in labeled graphs, are at the core of graph database query languages like SPARQL. A way to solve RPQs is to translate them into…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Diego Arroyuelo , Adrián Gómez-Brandón , Gonzalo Navarro

Knowledge graphs (KG) have become an important data organization paradigm. The available textual query languages for information retrieval from KGs, as SPARQL for RDF-structured data, do not provide means for involving non-technical experts…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Jūlija Ovčiņņikiva , Agris Šostaks , Kārlis Čerāns

The development of practical query languages for graph databases runs well ahead of the underlying theory. The ISO committee in charge of database query languages is currently developing a new standard called Graph Query Language (GQL) as…

Question answering over Scholarly Knowledge Graphs (SKGs) remains a challenging task due to the complexity of scholarly content and the intricate structure of these graphs. Large Language Model (LLM) approaches could be used to translate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Xueli Pan , Victor de Boer , Jacco van Ossenbruggen

The proliferation of RDF datasets has resulted in studies focusing on optimizing SPARQL query processing. Most existing work focuses on basic graph patterns (BGPs) and ignores other vital operators in SPARQL, such as UNION and OPTIONAL.…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Lei Zou , Yue Pang , M. Tamer Özsu , Jiaqi Chen

This document defines extensions of the RDF data model and of the SPARQL query language that capture an alternative approach to represent statement-level metadata. While this alternative approach is backwards compatible with RDF reification…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Olaf Hartig , Bryan Thompson

Federated query engines allow data consumers to execute queries over the federation of Linked Data (LD). However, as federated queries are decomposed into potentially thousands of subqueries distributed among SPARQL endpoints, data…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-08-26 Georges Nassopoulos , Patricia Serrano-Alvarado , Pascal Molli , Emmanuel Desmontils

Pioneered by Google's Pregel, many distributed systems have been developed for large-scale graph analytics. These systems expose the user-friendly "think like a vertex" programming interface to users, and exhibit good horizontal…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Da Yan , James Cheng , M. Tamer Özsu , Fan Yang , Yi Lu , John C. S. Lui , Qizhen Zhang , Wilfred Ng

Over the past decade, Knowledge Graphs have received enormous interest both from industry and from academia. Research in this area has been driven, above all, by the Database (DB) community and the Semantic Web (SW) community. However,…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Renzo Angles , Georg Gottlob , Aleksandar Pavlovic , Reinhard Pichler , Emanuel Sallinger

Pattern matching of core GQL, the new ISO standard for querying property graphs, cannot check whether edge values are increasing along a path, as established in recent work. We present a constructive translation that overcomes this…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Hadar Rotschield , Liat Peterfreund

To translate natural language questions into executable database queries, most approaches rely on a fully annotated training set. Annotating a large dataset with queries is difficult as it requires query-language expertise. We reduce this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Irina Saparina , Anton Osokin

With the advent of social networks and the web, the graph sizes have grown too large to fit in main memory precipitating the need for alternative approaches for an efficient, scalable evaluation of queries on graphs of any size. Here, we…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Soumyava Das , Abhishek Santra , Jay Bodra , Sharma Chakravarthy

The increasing amount of Linked Data and its inherent distributed nature have attracted significant attention throughout the research community and amongst practitioners to search data, in the past years. Inspired by research results from…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-06-10 Nur Aini Rakhmawati , Jürgen Umbrich , Marcel Karnstedt , Ali Hasnain , Michael Hausenblas

We study persistent query evaluation over streaming graphs, which is becoming increasingly important. We focus on navigational queries that determine if there exists a path between two entities that satisfies a user-specified constraint. We…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Anil Pacaci , Angela Bonifati , M. Tamer Özsu

The scalability and exibility of Resource Description Framework(RDF) model make it ideally suited for representing online social networks(OSN). One basic operation in OSN is to find chains of relations,such as k-Hop friends. Property path…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-11-25 Lei Gai , Wei Chen , Zhichao Xu , Changhe Qiu , Tengjiao Wang

This paper presents ForestQB, a SPARQL query builder, to assist Bioscience and Wildlife Researchers in accessing Linked-Data. As they are unfamiliar with the Semantic Web and the data ontologies, ForestQB aims to empower them to benefit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Omar Mussa , Omer Rana , Benoît Goossens , Pablo Orozco-terWengel , Charith Perera

In recent years, querying semantic web data using SPARQL has remained challenging, especially for non-expert users, due to the language's complex syntax and the prerequisite of understanding intricate data structures. To address these…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Xiangru Jian , Zhengyuan Dong , M. Tamer Özsu

Our work addresses the challenges of understanding tables. Existing methods often struggle with the unpredictable nature of table content, leading to a reliance on preprocessing and keyword matching. They also face limitations due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Thi-Nhung Nguyen , Hoang Ngo , Dinh Phung , Thuy-Trang Vu , Dat Quoc Nguyen