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Databases · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Amélie Gheerbrant , Leonid Libkin , Liat Peterfreund , Alexandra Rogova

SPARQL query composition is difficult for the lay-person or even the experienced bioinformatician in cases where the data model is unfamiliar. Established best-practices and internationalization concerns dictate that semantic web ontologies…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-12-09 Luke McCarthy , Ben Vandervalk , Mark Wilkinson

With the adoption of RDF as the data model for Linked Data and the Semantic Web, query specification from end- users has become more and more common in SPARQL end- points. In this paper, we conduct an in-depth analytical study of the…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Angela Bonifati , Wim Martens , Thomas Timm

This work is done as part of a research master's thesis project. The goal is to generate SPARQL queries based on user-supplied keywords to query RDF graphs. To do this, we first transformed the input ontology into an RDF graph that reflects…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Emna Jabri

Information access needs to be uncomplicated, users rather use incorrect data which is easily received than correct information which is harder to obtain. Querying bibliographic metadata from digital libraries mainly supports simple textual…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Christin Katharina Kreutz , Michael Wolz , Ralf Schenkel

The Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL) was standardized by the World Wide Web as a constraint language to describe and validate RDF data graphs. SHACL uses the notion of shapes graph to describe a set of shape constraints paired with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Shqiponja Ahmetaj , Timo Camillo Merkl , Reinhard Pichler

In SPARQL, the query forms SELECT and CONSTRUCT have been the subject of several studies, both theoretical and practical. However, the composition of such queries and their interweaving when forming involved nested queries has not yet…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Dominique Duval , Rachid Echahed , Frederic Prost

We consider the recommendations of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) about RDF framework and its associated query language SPARQL. We propose a new formal framework based on category theory which provides clear and concise formal…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Dominique Duval , Rachid Echahed , Frédéric Prost

Archived collections of documents (like newspaper and web archives) serve as important information sources in a variety of disciplines, including Digital Humanities, Historical Science, and Journalism. However, the absence of efficient and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Pavlos Fafalios , Vaibhav Kasturia , Wolfgang Nejdl

The SPARQL query language is a recent W3C standard for processing RDF data, a format that has been developed to encode information in a machine-readable way. We investigate the foundations of SPARQL query optimization and (a) provide novel…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-01-26 Michael Schmidt , Michael Meier , Georg Lausen

Ontology-Mediated Query Answering (OMQA) is a well-established framework to answer queries over an RDFS or OWL Knowledge Base (KB). OMQA was originally designed for unions of conjunctive queries (UCQs), and based on certain answers. More…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Julien Corman , Guohui Xiao

An increasing number of organisations in almost all fields have started adopting semantic web technologies for publishing their data as open, linked and interoperable (RDF) datasets, queryable through the SPARQL language and protocol. Link…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Antonis Sklavos , Pavlos Fafalios , Yannis Tzitzikas

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…

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Accessing knowledge via multilingual natural-language interfaces is one of the emerging challenges in the field of information retrieval and related ones. Structured knowledge stored in knowledge graphs can be queried via a specific query…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Aleksandr Perevalov , Andreas Both

Link Traversal-based Query Processing (ltqp), in which a sparql query is evaluated over a web of documents rather than a single dataset, is often seen as a theoretically interesting yet impractical technique. However, in a time where the…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Bart Bogaerts , Bas Ketsman , Younes Zeboudj , Heba Aamer , Ruben Taelman , Ruben Verborgh

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

Graph query languages feature mainly two kinds of queries when applied to a graph database: those inspired by relational databases which return tables such as SELECT queries and those which return graphs such as CONSTRUCT queries in SPARQL.…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Dominique Duval , Rachid Echahed , Frédéric Prost

Querying knowledge bases using ontologies is usually performed using dedicated query languages, question-answering systems, or visual query editors for Knowledge Graphs. We propose a novel approach that enables users to query the knowledge…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Benedikt Kantz , Kevin Innerebner , Peter Waldert , Stefan Lengauer , Elisabeth Lex , Tobias Schreck

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

The Semantic Web offers access to a vast Web of interlinked information accessible via SPARQL endpoints. Such endpoints offer a well-defined interface to retrieve results for complex SPARQL queries. The computational load for processing…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Christian Aebeloe , Ilkcan Keles , Gabriela Montoya , Katja Hose