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SHACL is a W3C-proposed schema language for expressing structural constraints on RDF graphs. Recent work on formalizing this language has revealed a striking relationship to description logics. SHACL expressions can use three fundamental…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Bart Bogaerts , Maxime Jakubowski , Jan Van den Bussche

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in table Question Answering (Table QA). However, extending these capabilities to multi-table QA remains challenging due to unreliable schema linking across complex tables. Existing methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xixi Wang , Miguel Costa , Jordanka Kovaceva , Shuai Wang , Francisco C. Pereira

Translating natural language utterances to executable queries is a helpful technique in making the vast amount of data stored in relational databases accessible to a wider range of non-tech-savvy end users. Prior work in this area has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Karthik Radhakrishnan , Arvind Srikantan , Xi Victoria Lin

The recent ISO SQL:2023 standard adopts SQL/PGQ (Property Graph Queries), facilitating graph-like querying within relational databases. This advancement, however, underscores a significant gap in how to effectively optimize SQL/PGQ queries…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yunkai Lou , Longbin Lai , Bingqing Lyu , Yufan Yang , Xiaoli Zhou , Wenyuan Yu , Ying Zhang , Jingren Zhou

Graphs are foundational across domains but remain hard to use without deep expertise. LLMs promise accessible natural language (NL) graph analytics, yet they fail to process industry-scale property graphs effectively and efficiently: such…

In this work, we analyse the role of output vocabulary for text-to-text (T2T) models on the task of SPARQL semantic parsing. We perform experiments within the the context of knowledge graph question answering (KGQA), where the task is to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Debayan Banerjee , Pranav Ajit Nair , Ricardo Usbeck , Chris Biemann

Most graph query languages are rooted in logic. By contrast, in this paper we consider graph query languages rooted in linear algebra. More specifically, we consider MATLANG, a matrix query language recently introduced, in which some basic…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Floris Geerts

Large Language Models (LLMs) have spurred progress in text-to-SQL, the task of generating SQL queries from natural language questions based on a given database schema. Despite the declarative nature of SQL, it continues to be a complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Ben Eyal , Amir Bachar , Ophir Haroche , Michael Elhadad

The amount of large-scale scientific computing software is dramatically increasing. In this work, we designed a new language, named feature query language (FQL), to collect and extract software features from a quick static code analysis. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Weijian Zheng , Dali Wang , Fengguang Song

The popularity of data science as a discipline and its importance in the emerging economy and industrial progress dictate that machine learning be democratized for the masses. This also means that the current practice of workforce training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Hasan M Jamil

We propose a new approach for generating SPARQL queries on RDF knowledge graphs from natural language questions or keyword queries, using a large language model. Our approach does not require fine-tuning. Instead, it uses the language model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Sebastian Walter , Hannah Bast

The study of graph queries in database theory has spanned more than three decades, resulting in a multitude of proposals for graph query languages. These languages differ in the mechanisms. We can identify three main families of languages,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Michael Benedikt , Anthony Widjaja Lin , Di-De Yen

Competency Questions (CQs) are natural language questions outlining and constraining the scope of knowledge represented by an ontology. Despite that CQs are a part of several ontology engineering methodologies, we have observed that the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Dawid Wisniewski , Jedrzej Potoniec , Agnieszka Lawrynowicz , C. Maria Keet

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…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Philipp Seifer , Ralf Lämmel , Steffen Staab

We present LinkQ, a system that leverages a large language model (LLM) to facilitate knowledge graph (KG) query construction through natural language question-answering. Traditional approaches often require detailed knowledge of a graph…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Harry Li , Gabriel Appleby , Ashley Suh

How can we maximize the value of accumulated RDF data? Whereas the RDF data can be queried using the SPARQL language, even the SPARQL-based operation has a limitation in implementing traversal or analytical algorithms. Recently, a variety…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Hirokazu Chiba , Ryota Yamanaka , Shota Matsumoto

Performance-critical industrial applications, including large-scale program, network, and distributed system analyses, rely on fixed-point computations. The introduction of recursive common table expressions (CTEs) using the WITH RECURSIVE…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Anna Herlihy , Amir Shaikhha , Anastasia Ailamaki , Martin Odersky

Subject to the huge semantic gap between natural and formal languages, neural semantic parsing is typically bottlenecked by its complexity of dealing with both input semantics and output syntax. Recent works have proposed several forms of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Lunyiu Nie , Shulin Cao , Jiaxin Shi , Jiuding Sun , Qi Tian , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li , Jidong Zhai

For applications that store structured data in relational databases, there is an impedance mismatch between the flat representations encouraged by relational data models and the deeply nested information that applications expect to receive.…

Adopting Knowledge Graphs (KGs) as a structured, semantic-oriented, data representation model has significantly improved data integration, reasoning, and querying capabilities across different domains. This is especially true in modern…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Marco Arazzi , Davide Ligari , Serena Nicolazzo , Antonino Nocera