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This paper presents ForestQB, a SPARQL query builder, to assist Bioscience and Wildlife Researchers in accessing Linked-Data. As they are unfamiliar with the Semantic Web and the data ontologies, ForestQB aims to empower them to benefit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Omar Mussa , Omer Rana , Benoît Goossens , Pablo Orozco-terWengel , Charith Perera

Interacting with knowledge graphs can be a daunting task for people without a background in computer science since the query language that is used (SPARQL) has a high barrier of entry. Large language models (LLMs) can lower that barrier by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Felix Brei , Lorenz Bühmann , Johannes Frey , Daniel Gerber , Lars-Peter Meyer , Claus Stadler , Kirill Bulert

Knowledge graphs offer an excellent solution for representing the lexical-semantic structures of lexicographic data. However, working with the SPARQL query language represents a considerable hurdle for many non-expert users who could…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Kilian Sennrich , Sina Ahmadi

As the use of technology increases and data analysis becomes integral in many businesses, the ability to quickly access and interpret data has become more important than ever. Information retrieval technologies are being utilized by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Aliaksei Vertsel , Mikhail Rumiantsau

The emergence of natural language processing has revolutionized the way users interact with tabular data, enabling a shift from traditional query languages and manual plotting to more intuitive, language-based interfaces. The rise of large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Weixu Zhang , Yifei Wang , Yuanfeng Song , Victor Junqiu Wei , Yuxing Tian , Yiyan Qi , Jonathan H. Chan , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong , Haiqin Yang

The problem of natural language processing over structured data has become a growing research field, both within the relational database and the Semantic Web community, with significant efforts involved in question answering over knowledge…

Tackling the information retrieval gap between non-technical database end-users and those with the knowledge of formal query languages has been an interesting area of data management and analytics research. The use of natural language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Chantal Montgomery , Haruna Isah , Farhana Zulkernine

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

Through a natural language interface (NLI) for exploratory visual analysis, users can directly "ask" analytical questions about the given tabular data. This process greatly improves user experience and lowers the technical barriers of data…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Yi Guo , Danqing Shi , Mingjuan Guo , Yanqiu Wu , Qing Chen , Nan Cao

The problem of Natural Language Query Formalization (NLQF) is to translate a given user query in natural language (NL) into a formal language so that the semantic interpretation has equivalence with the NL interpretation. Formalization of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Sourish Dasgupta , Rupali KaPatel , Ankur Padia , Kushal Shah

Scientific literature searches are often exploratory, whereby users are not yet familiar with a particular field or concept but are interested in learning more about it. However, existing systems for scientific literature search are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Tim Schopf , Florian Matthes

In the last years, the Linked Data Cloud has achieved a size of more than 100 billion facts pertaining to a multitude of domains. However, accessing this information has been significantly challenging for lay users. Approaches to problems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Tommaso Soru , Edgard Marx , Diego Moussallem , Gustavo Publio , André Valdestilhas , Diego Esteves , Ciro Baron Neto

Being able to efficiently retrieve the required building information is critical for construction project stakeholders to carry out their engineering and management activities. Natural language interface (NLI) systems are emerging as a time…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Mengtian Yin , Llewellyn Tang , Chris Webster , Shen Xu , Xiongyi Li , Huaquan Ying

The growing reliance on data-driven decision-making highlights the need for more intuitive ways to access and analyze information stored in relational databases. However, the requirement of SQL knowledge has long been a significant barrier…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Steve Tueno Fotso

This paper presents a scholarly Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) that answers bibliographic natural language questions by leveraging a large language model (LLM) in a few-shot manner. The model initially identifies the top-n…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Tilahun Abedissa Taffa , Ricardo Usbeck

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

Though recent advances in machine learning have led to significant improvements in natural language interfaces for databases, the accuracy and reliability of these systems remain limited, especially in high-stakes domains. This paper…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Yuan Tian , Jonathan K. Kummerfeld , Toby Jia-Jun Li , Tianyi Zhang

This paper is an introduction to natural language interfaces to databases (NLIDBs). A brief overview of the history of NLIDBs is first given. Some advantages and disadvantages of NLIDBs are then discussed, comparing NLIDBs to formal query…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2016-08-31 I. Androutsopoulos , G. D. Ritchie , P. Thanisch

Multiple lines of research have developed Natural Language (NL) interfaces for formulating database queries. We build upon this work, but focus on presenting a highly detailed form of the answers in NL. The answers that we present are…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Daniel Deutch , Nave Frost , Amir Gilad

This paper presents TableQuery, a novel tool for querying tabular data using deep learning models pre-trained to answer questions on free text. Existing deep learning methods for question answering on tabular data have various limitations,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Abhijith Neil Abraham , Fariz Rahman , Damanpreet Kaur