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SHACL and OWL are two prominent W3C standards for managing RDF data. These languages share many features, but they have one fundamental difference: OWL, designed for inferring facts from incomplete data, makes the open-world assumption,…

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We present a method for the construction of SHACL or ShEx constraints for an existing RDF dataset. It has two components that are used conjointly: an algorithm for automatic schema construction, and an interactive workflow for editing the…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Iovka Boneva , Jérémie Dusart , Daniel Fernández Álvarez , Jose Emilio Labra Gayo

SHACL is a W3C-proposed language for expressing structural constraints on RDF graphs. The recommendation only specifies semantics for non-recursive SHACL; recently, some efforts have been made to allow recursive SHACL schemas. In this…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Bart Bogaerts , Maxime Jakubowski

Knowledge graphs have been widely adopted in both enterprises, such as the Google Knowledge Graph, and open platforms like Wikidata, to represent domain knowledge and support artificial intelligence applications. They model real-world…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Carolina Cortés , Lisa Ehrlinger , Lorena Etcheverry , Felix Naumann

Linked data portals need to be able to advertise and describe the structure of their content. A sufficiently expressive and intuitive schema language will allow portals to communicate these structures. Validation tools will aid in the…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Jose-Emilio Labra-Gayo , Eric Prud'hommeaux , Harold Solbrig , Iovka Boneva

Graphs have emerged as an important foundation for a variety of applications, including capturing and reasoning over factual knowledge, semantic data integration, social networks, and providing factual knowledge for machine learning…

We present a systematic approach for evaluating the quality of knowledge graph repairs with respect to constraint violations defined in shapes constraint language (SHACL). Current evaluation methods rely on \emph{ad hoc} datasets, which…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Tung-Wei Lin , Gabe Fierro , Han Li , Tianzhen Hong , Pierluigi Nuzzo , Alberto Sangiovanni-Vinentelli

Developing and testing modern RDF-based applications often requires access to RDF datasets with certain characteristics. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to publicly find domain-specific knowledge graphs that conform to a particular set…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Milos Jovanovik , Marija Vecovska , Maxime Jakubowski , Katja Hose

We present a formal semantics and proof of soundness for shapes schemas, an expressive schema language for RDF graphs that is the foundation of Shape Expressions Language 2.0. It can be used to describe the vocabulary and the structure of…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Iovka Boneva , Jose Emilio Labra Gayo , Eric G. Prud'hommeau

We present Shape Expressions (ShEx), an expressive schema language for RDF designed to provide a high-level, user friendly syntax with intuitive semantics. ShEx allows to describe the vocabulary and the structure of an RDF graph, and to…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Iovka Boneva , Jose E. Labra Gayo , Eric G. Prud'hommeaux , Sławek Staworko

An RDF data shape is a description of the expected contents of an RDF document (aka graph) or dataset. A major part of this description is the set of constraints that the document or dataset is required to satisfy. W3C recently (2014)…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Arthur Ryman

The aim of this paper is to propose a novel framework to infer the sheaf Laplacian, including the topology of a graph and the restriction maps, from a set of data observed over the nodes of a graph. The proposed method is based on sheaf…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Leonardo Di Nino , Sergio Barbarossa , Paolo Di Lorenzo

In-Context Learning (ICL) enables transformer-based language models to adapt to new tasks by conditioning on demonstration examples. However, traditional example-driven in-context learning lacks explicit modules for knowledge retrieval and…

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Property graphs constitute data models for representing knowledge graphs. They allow for the convenient representation of facts, including facts about facts, represented by triples in subject or object position of other triples. Knowledge…

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Conformal inference is a method that provides prediction sets for machine learning models, operating independently of the underlying distributional assumptions and relying solely on the exchangeability of training and test data. Despite its…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-01 Daniela Corbetta , Livio Finos , Ludwig Geistlinger , Davide Risso

RDF and Description Logics work in an open-world setting where absence of information is not information about absence. Nevertheless, Description Logic axioms can be interpreted in a closed-world setting and in this setting they can be used…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-01-23 Peter F. Patel-Schneider

Extracting formal knowledge (ontologies) from natural language is a challenge that can benefit from a (semi-) formal linguistic representation of texts, at the semantic level. We propose to achieve such a representation by implementing the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-14 David Rouquet , Valérie Bellynck , Christian Boitet , Vincent Berment

We introduce regular graph constraints and explore their decidability properties. The motivation for regular graph constraints is 1) type checking of changing types of objects in the presence of linked data structures, 2) shape analysis…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Viktor Kuncak , Martin Rinard

Grammar inference deals with determining (preferable simple) models/grammars consistent with a set of observations. There is a large body of research on grammar inference within the theory of formal languages. However, there is surprisingly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-02-02 Hendrik Blockeel , Robert Brijder

Prior knowledge and symbolic rules in machine learning are often expressed in the form of label constraints, especially in structured prediction problems. In this work, we compare two common strategies for encoding label constraints in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Kaifu Wang , Hangfeng He , Tin D. Nguyen , Piyush Kumar , Dan Roth