English
Related papers

Related papers: Spec-QP: Speculative Query Planning for Joins over…

200 papers

As data are increasingly modeled as graphs for expressing complex relationships, the tree pattern query on graph-structured data becomes an important type of queries in real-world applications. Most practical query languages, such as XQuery…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Qiang Zeng , Xiaorui Jiang , Hai Zhuge

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

Complex query answering (CQA) goes beyond the well-studied link prediction task by addressing more sophisticated queries that require multi-hop reasoning over incomplete knowledge graphs (KGs). Research on neural and neurosymbolic CQA…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Parsa Abbasi , Stefan Heindorf

Work on knowledge graphs and graph-based data management often focus either on declarative graph query languages or on frameworks for graph analytics, where there has been little work in trying to combine both approaches. However, many…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Aidan Hogan , Juan Reutter , Adrian Soto

The federated query extension of SPARQL 1.1 allows executing queries distributed over different SPARQL endpoints. SPARQL-LD is a recent extension of SPARQL 1.1 which enables to directly query any HTTP web source containing RDF data, like…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Thanos Yannakis , Pavlos Fafalios , Yannis Tzitzikas

Semantic Web applications require querying available RDF Data with high performance and reliability. However, ensuring both data availability and performant SPARQL query execution in the context of public SPARQL servers are challenging…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Thomas Minier , Hala Skaf-Molli , Pascal Molli

Complex logical query answering (CLQA) is a challenging task that involves finding answer entities for complex logical queries over incomplete knowledge graphs (KGs). Previous research has explored the use of pre-trained knowledge graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Changyi Xiao , Yixin Cao

Knowledge Graphs popularity has been rapidly growing in last years. All that knowledge is available for people to query it through the many online databases on the internet. Though, it would be a great achievement if non-programmer users…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Diego Bustamante , Hideaki Takeda

Information retrieval based knowledge base question answering (KBQA) first retrieves a subgraph to reduce search space, then reasons on the subgraph to select answer entities. Existing approaches have three issues that impede the retrieval…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Yuanchun Shen

A regular path query (RPQ) is a regular expression q that returns all node pairs (u, v) from a graph database that are connected by an arbitrary path labelled with a word from L(q). The obvious algorithmic approach to RPQ-evaluation (called…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Katrin Casel , Markus L. Schmid

Constructing Knowledge Graphs (KGs) from unstructured text provides a structured framework for knowledge representation and reasoning, yet current LLM-based approaches struggle with a fundamental trade-off: factual coverage often leads to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Sanghyeok Choi , Woosang Jeon , Kyuseok Yang , Taehyeong Kim

The SPARQL query language is the standard method to access knowledge graphs (KGs). However, formulating SPARQL queries is a significant challenge for non-expert users, and remains time-consuming for the experienced ones. Best practices…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Yousouf Taghzouti , Franck Michel , Tao Jiang , Louis-Félix Nothias , Fabien Gandon

Improving the performance of large language models (LLMs) in complex question-answering (QA) scenarios has always been a research focal point. Recent studies have attempted to enhance LLMs' performance by combining step-wise planning with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Junjie Wang , Mingyang Chen , Binbin Hu , Dan Yang , Ziqi Liu , Yue Shen , Peng Wei , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jinjie Gu , Jun Zhou , Jeff Z. Pan , Wen Zhang , Huajun Chen

Given unstructured text, Large Language Models (LLMs) are adept at answering simple (single-hop) questions. However, as the complexity of the questions increase, the performance of LLMs degrade. We believe this is due to the overhead…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Pranoy Panda , Ankush Agarwal , Chaitanya Devaguptapu , Manohar Kaul , Prathosh A P

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Knowledge Graphs (KGs) offer a promising approach to robust and explainable Question Answering (QA). While LLMs excel at natural language understanding, they suffer from knowledge gaps and hallucinations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jasper Linders , Jakub M. Tomczak

Temporal Knowledge Graphs (TKGs) represent dynamic facts as timestamped relations between entities. TKG completion involves forecasting missing or future links, requiring models to reason over time-evolving structure. While LLMs show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Ömer Faruk Akgül , Feiyu Zhu , Yuxin Yang , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

RDF has seen increased adoption in recent years, prompting the standardization of the SPARQL query language for RDF, and the development of local and distributed engines for processing SPARQL queries. This survey paper provides a…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Waqas Ali , Muhammad Saleem , Bin Yao , Aidan Hogan , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Link-Traversal-Based Query Processing (LTBQP) is a technique for evaluating queries over a web of data by starting with a set of seed documents that is dynamically expanded through following hyperlinks. Compared to query evaluation over a…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Ruben Verborgh , Ruben Taelman

Knowledge Graphs (KG) act as a great tool for holding distilled information from large natural language text corpora. The problem of natural language querying over knowledge graphs is essential for the human consumption of this information.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Aayushee Gupta , K. M. Annervaz , Ambedkar Dukkipati , Shubhashis Sengupta

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) aims to answer natural language questions with factual information such as entities and relations in KBs. However, traditional Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) are directly pre-trained on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Guanting Dong , Rumei Li , Sirui Wang , Yupeng Zhang , Yunsen Xian , Weiran Xu