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Recent standardization work for database languages has reflected the growing use of typed graph models (TGM) in application development. Such data models are frequently only used early in the design process, and not reflected directly in…

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Querying graph databases has recently received much attention. We propose a new approach to this problem, which balances competing goals of expressive power, language clarity and computational complexity. A distinctive feature of our…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Jakub Michaliszyn , Jan Otop , Piotr Wieczorek

Graph databases have become essential tools for managing complex and interconnected data, which is common in areas like social networks, bioinformatics, and recommendation systems. Unlike traditional relational databases, graph databases…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Miguel E. Coimbra , Lucie Svitáková , Domagoj Vrgoč , Alexandre P. Francisco , Luís Veiga

A graph is a fundamental data model to represent various entities and their complex relationships in society and nature, such as social networks, transportation networks, and financial networks. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Wenbo Shang , Xin Huang

While Language Models (LMs) are the workhorses of NLP, their interplay with structured knowledge graphs (KGs) is still actively researched. Current methods for encoding such graphs typically either (i) linearize them for embedding with LMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Moritz Plenz , Anette Frank

In recent years, research on transforming natural language into graph query language (NL2GQL) has been increasing. Most existing methods focus on single-turn transformation from NL to GQL. In practical applications, user interactions with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yuanyuan Liang , Lei Pan , Tingyu Xie , Yunshi Lan , Weining Qian

Foundation models have emerged as critical components in a variety of artificial intelligence applications, and showcase significant success in natural language processing and several other domains. Meanwhile, the field of graph machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jiawei Liu , Cheng Yang , Zhiyuan Lu , Junze Chen , Yibo Li , Mengmei Zhang , Ting Bai , Yuan Fang , Lichao Sun , Philip S. Yu , Chuan Shi

We propose KG-ER, a conceptual schema language for knowledge graphs that describes the structure of knowledge graphs independently of their representation (relational databases, property graphs, RDF) while helping to capture the semantics…

While Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) methods commonly draw information from unstructured documents, the emerging paradigm of GraphRAG aims to leverage structured data such as knowledge graphs. Most existing GraphRAG efforts focus on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Anton Gusarov , Anastasia Volkova , Valentin Khrulkov , Andrey Kuznetsov , Evgenii Maslov , Ivan Oseledets

It is increasingly common to find complex data represented through the graph model. Contrary to relational models, graphs offer a high capacity for executing analytical tasks on complex data. Since a huge amount of data is still presented…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Abdelkrim Boudaoud , Houari Mahfoud , Azeddine Chikh

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

Knowledge graphs have become popular over the past decade and frequently rely on the Resource Description Framework (RDF) or Property Graph (PG) databases as data models. However, the query languages for these two data models -- SPARQL for…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Harsh Thakkar , Dharmen Punjani , Jens Lehmann , Sören Auer

While current tasks of converting natural language to SQL (NL2SQL) using Foundation Models have shown impressive achievements, adapting these approaches for converting natural language to Graph Query Language (NL2GQL) encounters hurdles due…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Yuhang Zhou , Yu He , Siyu Tian , Yuchen Ni , Zhangyue Yin , Xiang Liu , Chuanjun Ji , Sen Liu , Xipeng Qiu , Guangnan Ye , Hongfeng Chai

Mining information from graph databases is becoming overly important. To approach this problem, current methods focus on identifying subgraphs with specific topologies; as of today, no work has been dedicated to jointly expressing the…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Francesco Cambria , Francesco Invernici , Anna Bernasconi , Stefano Ceri

Graph databases (GDB) have recently been arisen to overcome the limits of traditional databases for storing and managing data with graph-like structure. Today, they represent a requirement for many applications that manage graph-like data,…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Ali Ben Ammar

In recent years, GraphQL has become a popular way to expose web APIs. With its raise of adoption in industry, the quality of GraphQL APIs must be also assessed, as with any part of a software system, and preferably in an automated manner.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Stefan Karlsson , Adnan Čaušević , Daniel Sundmark

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved great success in many fields, and recent works have studied exploring LLMs for graph discriminative tasks such as node classification. However, the abilities of LLMs for graph generation remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yang Yao , Xin Wang , Zeyang Zhang , Yijian Qin , Ziwei Zhang , Xu Chu , Yuekui Yang , Wenwu Zhu , Hong Mei

Graph Generating Dependencies (GGDs) informally express constraints between two (possibly different) graph patterns which enforce relationships on both graph's data (via property value constraints) and its structure (via topological…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Larissa C. Shimomura , Nikolay Yakovets , George Fletcher

In recent years, knowledge graphs (KGs) - in particular in the form of labeled property graphs (LPGs) - have become essential components in a broad range of applications. Although the absence of strict schemas for KGs facilitates structural…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Johannes Schrott , Maxime Jakubowski , Katja Hose

Graph models are fundamental to data analysis in domains rich with complex relationships. Text-to-Graph-Query-Language (Text-to-GQL) systems act as a translator, converting natural language into executable graph queries. This capability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Songlin Lyu , Lujie Ban , Zihang Wu , Tianqi Luo , Jirong Liu , Chenhao Ma , Yuyu Luo , Nan Tang , Shipeng Qi , Heng Lin , Yongchao Liu , Chuntao Hong