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SPARQL query composition is difficult for the lay-person or even the experienced bioinformatician in cases where the data model is unfamiliar. Established best-practices and internationalization concerns dictate that semantic web ontologies…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-12-09 Luke McCarthy , Ben Vandervalk , Mark Wilkinson

We tackle the task of enriching ontologies by automatically translating natural language sentences into Description Logic. Since Large Language Models (LLMs) are the best tools for translations, we fine-tuned a GPT-3 model to convert…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Patricia Mateiu , Adrian Groza

Semantic parsing is the process of mapping a natural language sentence into a formal representation of its meaning. In this work we use the neural network approach to transform natural language sentence into a query to an ontology database…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Fabiano Ferreira Luz , Marcelo Finger

Ontological Knowledge Bases (OKBs) play a vital role in structuring domain-specific knowledge and serve as a foundation for effective knowledge management systems. However, their traditional manual development poses significant challenges…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Le Ngoc Luyen , Marie-Hélène Abel , Philippe Gouspillou

Evaluating answers from state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) is challenging: lexical metrics miss semantic nuances, whereas "LLM-as-Judge" scoring is computationally expensive. We re-evaluate a lightweight alternative --…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sai Shridhar Balamurali , Lu Cheng

Automating the translation of natural language (NL) software requirements into formal specifications remains a critical challenge in scaling formal verification practices to industrial settings, particularly in safety-critical domains.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Zhi Ma , Cheng Wen , Zhexin Su , Xiao Liang , Cong Tian , Shengchao Qin , Mengfei Yang

Standard evaluations of deep learning models for semantics using naturalistic corpora are limited in what they can tell us about the fidelity of the learned representations, because the corpora rarely come with good measures of semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Atticus Geiger , Ignacio Cases , Lauri Karttunen , Christopher Potts

Automatically generating formal ontologies from unstructured natural language remains a central challenge in knowledge engineering. While large language models (LLMs) show promise, it remains unclear which architectural design choices drive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Abid Talukder , Maruf Ahmed Mridul , Oshani Seneviratne

Natural-language-initiated querying is usually framed as translation into a predetermined backend language such as SQL, Cypher, or SPARQL. That framing is appropriate when the semantic target is known in advance, but it does not cover the…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Shengqi Li , Amarnath Gupta

In ontology-mediated querying, description logic (DL) ontologies are used to enrich incomplete data with domain knowledge which results in more complete answers to queries. However, the evaluation of ontology-mediated queries (OMQs) over…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Pablo Barcelo , Cristina Feier , Carsten Lutz , Andreas Pieris

Question processing is a fundamental step in a question answering (QA) application, and its quality impacts the performance of QA application. The major challenging issue in processing question is how to extract semantic of natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Omar Al-Harbi , Shaidah Jusoh , Norita Md Norwawi

With the ever-increasing scientific literature, there is a need on a natural language interface to bibliographic information retrieval systems to retrieve related information effectively. In this paper, we propose a natural language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Yongjun Zhu , Erjia Yan , Il-Yeol Song

In recent years, the DBLP computer science bibliography has been prominently used for searching scholarly information, such as publications, scholars, and venues. However, its current search service lacks the capability to handle complex…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Ruijie Wang , Zhiruo Zhang , Luca Rossetto , Florian Ruosch , Abraham Bernstein

This paper introduces a novel Large Language Models (LLMs)-assisted agent that automatically converts natural-language descriptions of power system optimization scenarios into compact, solver-ready formulations and generates corresponding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yunkai Hu , Tianqiao Zhao , Meng Yue

Performing building information modeling (BIM) tasks is a complex process that imposes a steep learning curve and a heavy cognitive load due to the necessity of remembering sequences of numerous commands. With the rapid advancement of large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Ghang Lee , Suhyung Jang , Seokho Hyun

With the rapid development of IT operations, it has become increasingly crucial to efficiently manage and analyze large volumes of data for practical applications. The techniques of Natural Language Processing (NLP) have shown remarkable…

This paper addresses the challenge of improving information retrieval from semi-structured eXtensible Markup Language (XML) documents. Traditional information retrieval systems (IRS) often overlook user-specific needs and return identical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ounnaci Iddir , Ahmed-ouamer Rachid , Tai Dinh

Operations research (OR) uses mathematical models to enhance decision-making, but developing these models requires expert knowledge and can be time-consuming. Automated mathematical programming (AMP) has emerged to simplify this process,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Junxuan Li , Ryan Wickman , Sahil Bhatnagar , Raj Kumar Maity , Arko Mukherjee

Designing natural language interfaces has historically required collecting supervised data to translate user requests into carefully designed intent representations. This requires enumerating and labeling a long tail of user requests, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Harsh Jhamtani , Hao Fang , Patrick Xia , Eran Levy , Jacob Andreas , Ben Van Durme

Ontology-based approach to the Natural Language Understanding (NLU) processing allows to improve questions answering quality in dialogue systems. We describe our NLU engine architecture and evaluate its implementation. The engine transforms…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Sergey Gorshkov , Constantin Kondratiev , Roman Shebalov