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Knowledge graphs offer an excellent solution for representing the lexical-semantic structures of lexicographic data. However, working with the SPARQL query language represents a considerable hurdle for many non-expert users who could…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Kilian Sennrich , Sina Ahmadi

We show how to achieve fast autocompletion for SPARQL queries on very large knowledge bases. At any position in the body of a SPARQL query, the autocompletion suggests matching subjects, predicates, or objects. The suggestions are…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Hannah Bast , Johannes Kalmbach , Theresa Klumpp , Florian Kramer , Niklas Schnelle

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 paper investigates whether state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) can automatically translate SPARQL between popular Knowledge Graph (KG) schemas. We focus on translations between the DBpedia and Wikidata KG, and later on DBLP…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Malte Christian Bartels , Debayan Banerjee , Ricardo Usbeck

The logic-based machine-understandable framework of the Semantic Web often challenges naive users when they try to query ontology-based knowledge bases. Existing research efforts have approached this problem by introducing Natural Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-08-07 Iyad AlAgha

We present a question answering system over DBpedia, filling the gap between user information needs expressed in natural language and a structured query interface expressed in SPARQL over the underlying knowledge base (KB). Given the KB,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Chenhao Zhu , Kan Ren , Xuan Liu , Haofen Wang , Yiding Tian , Yong Yu

Understanding how users tailor their SPARQL queries is crucial when designing query evaluation engines or fine-tuning RDF stores with performance in mind. In this paper we analyze 3 million real-world SPARQL queries extracted from logs of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-03-28 Mario Arias , Javier D. Fernández , Miguel A. Martínez-Prieto , Pablo de la Fuente

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

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

Graph database query languages feature expressive, yet computationally expensive pattern matching capabilities. Answering optional query clauses in SPARQL for instance renders the query evaluation problem immediately Pspace-complete.…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Stephan Mennicke , Jan-Christoph Kalo , Denis Nagel , Hermann Kroll , Wolf-Tilo Balke

The problem of natural language processing over structured data has become a growing research field, both within the relational database and the Semantic Web community, with significant efforts involved in question answering over knowledge…

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

With recent emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), information collection on our physical world and environment can be achieved at a much higher granularity and such detailed knowledge will play a critical role in…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Wei Emma Zhang , Quan Z. Sheng , Schahram Dustdar

Nowadays, the importance of software with natural-language user interfaces cannot be underestimated. In particular, in Question Answering (QA) systems, generating a SPARQL query for a given natural-language question (often named Query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Aleksandr Gashkov , Aleksandr Perevalov , Maria Eltsova , Andreas Both

The World Wide Web currently evolves into a Web of Linked Data where content providers publish and link data as they have done with hypertext for the last 20 years. While the declarative query language SPARQL is the de facto for querying…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-04-09 Olaf Hartig

Generating complex, logically-sound SPARQL queries for multi-hop questions remains a critical bottleneck for Knowledge Graph Question Answering, as the brittle nature of one-shot generation by Large Language Models (LLMs) hinders reliable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Floris Vossebeld , Shenghui Wang

There is increasing evidence that question-answering (QA) systems with Large Language Models (LLMs), which employ a knowledge graph/semantic representation of an enterprise SQL database (i.e. Text-to-SPARQL), achieve higher accuracy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Dean Allemang , Juan Sequeda

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models from English to SPARQL are a promising development for SPARQL query generation. However, current architectures are unable to integrate the knowledge base (KB) schema and handle questions on knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Rose Hirigoyen , Amal Zouaq , Samuel Reyd

Large Scale Question-Answering systems today are widely used in downstream applications such as chatbots and conversational dialogue agents. Typically, such systems consist of an Answer Passage retrieval layer coupled with Machine…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Harsh Kohli

Background. In the last decades, several life science resources have structured data using the same framework and made these accessible using the same query language to facilitate interoperability. Knowledge graphs have seen increased…