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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

Thanks to the development of the Semantic Web, a lot of new structured data has become available on the Web in the form of knowledge bases (KBs). Making this valuable data accessible and usable for end-users is one of the main goals of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Dennis Diefenbach , Andreas Both , Kamal Singh , Pierre Maret

Translating natural language queries (NLQ) into structured query language (SQL) in interfaces to relational databases is a challenging task that has been widely studied by researchers from both the database and natural language processing…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Arif Usta , Akifhan Karakayali , Özgür Ulusoy

Logging is a critical function in modern distributed applications, but the lack of standardization in log query languages and formats creates significant challenges. Developers currently must write ad hoc queries in platform-specific…

We proposed Neural Enquirer as a neural network architecture to execute a natural language (NL) query on a knowledge-base (KB) for answers. Basically, Neural Enquirer finds the distributed representation of a query and then executes it on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Pengcheng Yin , Zhengdong Lu , Hang Li , Ben Kao

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) provides an opportunity to change the way queries are processed, moving beyond the constraints of conventional SQL-based database systems. However, using an LLM to answer a prediction query is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ziyu Li , Wenjie Zhao , Asterios Katsifodimos , Rihan Hai

Natural language question-answering over RDF data has received widespread attention. Although there have been several studies that have dealt with a small number of aggregate queries, they have many restrictions (i.e., interactive…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Xin Hu , Yingting Yao , Luting Ye , Depeng Dang

Querying databases for the right information is a time consuming and error-prone task and often requires experienced professionals for the job. Furthermore, the user needs to have some prior knowledge about the database. There have been…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Manu Joseph , Harsh Raj , Anubhav Yadav , Aaryamann Sharma

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

Querying a relational database is difficult because it requires users to know both the SQL language and be familiar with the schema. On the other hand, many users possess enough domain familiarity or expertise to describe their desired…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Christopher Baik , Zhongjun Jin , Michael Cafarella , H. V. Jagadish

This work is done as part of a research master's thesis project. The goal is to generate SPARQL queries based on user-supplied keywords to query RDF graphs. To do this, we first transformed the input ontology into an RDF graph that reflects…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Emna Jabri

Despite the recent broad adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) across various domains, their potential for enriching information systems in extracting and exploring Linked Data (LD) and Resource Description Framework (RDF) triplestores…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Omar Mussa , Omer Rana , Benoît Goossens , Pablo Orozco-Terwengel , Charith Perera

Natural Language Inference (NLI) is fundamental to many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications including semantic search and question answering. The NLI problem has gained significant attention thanks to the release of large scale,…

Currently, personal assistant systems, run on smartphones and use natural language interfaces. However, these systems rely mostly on the web for finding information. Mobile and wearable devices can collect an enormous amount of contextual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Reza Rawassizadeh , Chelsea Dobbins , Manouchehr Nourizadeh , Zahra Ghamchili , Michael Pazzani

A natural language interface (NLI) to databases is an interface that translates a natural language question to a structured query that is executable by database management systems (DBMS). However, an NLI that is trained in the general…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Jingjing Li , Wenlu Wang , Wei-Shinn Ku , Yingtao Tian , Haixun Wang

The Scholarly Hybrid Question Answering over Linked Data (QALD) Challenge at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2024 focuses on Question Answering (QA) over diverse scholarly sources: DBLP, SemOpenAlex, and Wikipedia-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Fomubad Borista Fondi , Azanzi Jiomekong Fidel , Gaoussou Camara

The advancement of mobile computing devices and positioning technologies has led to an explosive growth of spatio-temporal data managed in databases. Representative queries over such data include range queries, nearest neighbor queries, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Xieyang Wang , Mengyi Liu , Weijia Yi , Jianqiu Xu , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong

Table-based question answering (TableQA) is an important task in natural language processing, which requires comprehending tables and employing various reasoning ways to answer the questions. This paper introduces TableQAKit, the first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Fangyu Lei , Tongxu Luo , Pengqi Yang , Weihao Liu , Hanwen Liu , Jiahe Lei , Yiming Huang , Yifan Wei , Shizhu He , Jun Zhao , Kang Liu

Information access needs to be uncomplicated, users rather use incorrect data which is easily received than correct information which is harder to obtain. Querying bibliographic metadata from digital libraries mainly supports simple textual…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Christin Katharina Kreutz , Michael Wolz , Ralf Schenkel

Querying, conversing, and controlling search and information-seeking interfaces using natural language are fast becoming ubiquitous with the rise and adoption of large-language models (LLM). In this position paper, we describe a generic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Avishek Anand , Venktesh V , Abhijit Anand , Vinay Setty