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Analyzing large datasets requires responsive query execution, but executing SQL queries on massive datasets can be slow. This paper explores whether query execution can begin even before the user has finished typing, allowing results to…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Haoyu Li , Srikanth Kandula , Maria Angels de Luis Balaguer , Aditya Akella , Venkat Arun

Knowledge Graph Question Answering aims to answer natural language questions by reasoning over structured knowledge graphs. While large language models have advanced KGQA through their strong reasoning capabilities, existing methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Yanlin Song , Ben Liu , Víctor Gutiérrez-Basulto , Zhiwei Hu , Qianqian Xie , Min Peng , Sophia Ananiadou , Jeff Z. Pan

Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) has advanced through structured query generation, yet most efforts target RDF/SPARQL, leaving Cypher and property graphs underexplored, despite increasing demand for unified KGQA in industry…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Mengying Wang , Nicolaas Jedema , Rahul Pandey , RaviKiran Krishnan , Jens Lehmann , Yinghui Wu

Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) systems are based on machine learning algorithms, requiring thousands of question-answer pairs as training examples or natural language processing pipelines that need module fine-tuning. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Daniel Vollmers , Rricha Jalota , Diego Moussallem , Hardik Topiwala , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo , Ricardo Usbeck

Query response time often influences user experience in the real world. However, it possibly takes more time to answer a query with its all exact solutions, especially when it contains the OPT operations since the OPT operation is the least…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Zhenyu Song , Zhiyong Feng , Xiaowang Zhang , Xin Wang , Guozheng Rao

Large Language Models (LLMs) as interactive agents show significant promise in Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) but often struggle with the semantic gap between natural language queries and structured knowledge graph (KG)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jingao Xu , Shuoyoucheng Ma , Xin Song , Rong Jiang , Hongkui Tu , Bin Zhou

Many Web applications require efficient querying of large Knowledge Graphs (KGs). We propose KOGNAC, a dictionary-encoding algorithm designed to improve SPARQL querying with a judicious combination of statistical and semantic techniques. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Jacopo Urbani , Sourav Dutta , Sairam Gurajada , Gerhard Weikum

Multi-hop Question Answering over Knowledge Graph~(KGQA) aims to find the answer entities that are multiple hops away from the topic entities mentioned in a natural language question on a large-scale Knowledge Graph (KG). To cope with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Jinhao Jiang , Kun Zhou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

Question answering over knowledge graphs (KG-QA) is a vital topic in IR. Questions with temporal intent are a special class of practical importance, but have not received much attention in research. This work presents EXAQT, the first…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Zhen Jia , Soumajit Pramanik , Rishiraj Saha Roy , Gerhard Weikum

In this paper, we propose a new approach for fast processing of SPARQL queries on large RDF datasets containing RDF quadruples (or quads). Our approach called RIQ employs a decrease-and-conquer strategy: Rather than indexing the entire RDF…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Vasil Slavov , Anas Katib , Praveen Rao , Srivenu Paturi , Dinesh Barenkala

Querying on big data is a challenging task due to the rapid growth of data amount. Approximate query processing (AQP) is a way to meet the requirement of fast response. In this paper, we propose a learning-based AQP method called the LAQP.…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Meifan Zhang , Hongzhi Wang

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

Knowledge graphs (KGs) have been widely used for question answering (QA) applications, especially the entity based QA. However, searching an-swers from an entire large-scale knowledge graph is very time-consuming and it is hard to meet the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Shuangyong Song

Traditional database queries follow a simple model: they define constraints that each tuple in the result must satisfy. This model is computationally efficient, as the database system can evaluate the query conditions on each tuple…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-12-17 Matteo Brucato , Juan Felipe Beltran , Azza Abouzied , Alexandra Meliou

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle with tasks requiring external knowledge, such as knowledge-intensive Multiple Choice Question Answering (MCQA). Integrating Knowledge Graphs (KGs) can enhance reasoning; however, existing methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Haochen Liu , Song Wang , Chen Chen , Jundong Li

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…

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

Quantization is widely adopted to accelerate inference and reduce memory consumption in large language models (LLMs). While activation-weight joint quantization enables efficient low-precision decoding, it suffers from substantial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Juntao Zhao , Wenhao Lu , Sheng Wang , Lingpeng Kong , Chuan Wu

Existing KBQA methods have traditionally relied on multi-stage methodologies, involving tasks such as entity linking, subgraph retrieval and query structure generation. However, multi-stage approaches are dependent on the accuracy of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Jaebok Lee , Hyeonjeong Shin