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Knowledge Graphs popularity has been rapidly growing in last years. All that knowledge is available for people to query it through the many online databases on the internet. Though, it would be a great achievement if non-programmer users…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Diego Bustamante , Hideaki Takeda

Knowledge from diverse application domains is organized as knowledge graphs (KGs) that are stored in RDF engines accessible in the web via SPARQL endpoints. Expressing a well-formed SPARQL query requires information about the graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Reham Omar , Ishika Dhall , Panos Kalnis , Essam Mansour

Nowadays, the importance of software with natural-language user interfaces cannot be underestimated. In particular, in Question Answering (QA) systems, generating a SPARQL query for a given natural-language question (often named Query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Aleksandr Gashkov , Aleksandr Perevalov , Maria Eltsova , Andreas Both

This study investigates the task of knowledge-based question generation (KBQG). Conventional KBQG works generated questions from fact triples in the knowledge graph, which could not express complex operations like aggregation and comparison…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Guanming Xiong , Junwei Bao , Wen Zhao , Youzheng Wu , Xiaodong He

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…

The recent success of Large Language Models (LLM) in a wide range of Natural Language Processing applications opens the path towards novel Question Answering Systems over Knowledge Graphs leveraging LLMs. However, one of the main obstacles…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Julio C. Rangel , Tarcisio Mendes de Farias , Ana Claudia Sima , Norio Kobayashi

Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited impressive generation capabilities, but they suffer from hallucinations when solely relying on their internal knowledge, especially when answering questions that require less commonly known…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Wenting Zhao , Ye Liu , Tong Niu , Yao Wan , Philip S. Yu , Shafiq Joty , Yingbo Zhou , Semih Yavuz

Navigational graph queries are an important class of queries that canextract implicit binary relations over the nodes of input graphs. Most of the navigational query languages used in the RDF community, e.g. property paths in W3C SPARQL 1.1…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Xiaowang Zhang , Zhiyong Feng , Xin Wang , Guozheng Rao , Wenrui Wu

Natural language question answering over knowledge graphs is an important and interesting task as it enables common users to gain accurate answers in an easy and intuitive manner. However, it remains a challenge to bridge the gap between…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Weiguo Zheng , Mei Zhang

Reasoning over knowledge graphs is traditionally built upon a hierarchy of languages in the Semantic Web Stack. Starting from the Resource Description Framework (RDF) for knowledge graphs, more advanced constructs have been introduced…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Zhangsheng Lai , Aik Beng Ng , Liang Ze Wong , Simon See , Shaowei Lin

Knowledge Graphs (KG) act as a great tool for holding distilled information from large natural language text corpora. The problem of natural language querying over knowledge graphs is essential for the human consumption of this information.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Aayushee Gupta , K. M. Annervaz , Ambedkar Dukkipati , Shubhashis Sengupta

We present a question answering system over DBpedia, filling the gap between user information needs expressed in natural language and a structured query interface expressed in SPARQL over the underlying knowledge base (KB). Given the KB,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Chenhao Zhu , Kan Ren , Xuan Liu , Haofen Wang , Yiding Tian , Yong Yu

In this paper, we are interested in developing semantic parsers which understand natural language questions embedded in a conversation with a user and ground them to formal queries over definitions in a general purpose knowledge graph (KG)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Laura Perez-Beltrachini , Parag Jain , Emilio Monti , Mirella Lapata

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

The SPARQL query language is the standard method to access knowledge graphs (KGs). However, formulating SPARQL queries is a significant challenge for non-expert users, and remains time-consuming for the experienced ones. Best practices…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Yousouf Taghzouti , Franck Michel , Tao Jiang , Louis-Félix Nothias , Fabien Gandon

We propose techniques for processing SPARQL queries over a large RDF graph in a distributed environment. We adopt a "partial evaluation and assembly" framework. Answering a SPARQL query Q is equivalent to finding subgraph matches of the…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Peng Peng , Lei Zou , M. Tamer Özsu , Lei Chen , Dongyan Zhao

Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) has become a prominent area in natural language processing due to the emergence of large-scale Knowledge Graphs (KGs). Recently Neural Machine Translation based approaches are gaining momentum that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Sukannya Purkayastha , Saswati Dana , Dinesh Garg , Dinesh Khandelwal , G P Shrivatsa Bhargav

RDF (Resource Description Framework) is a standard language to represent graph databases. Query languages for RDF databases usually include primitives to support path queries, linking pairs of vertices of the graph that are connected by a…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Ciro M. Medeiros , Martin A. Musicante , Umberto S. Costa

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong inductive reasoning ability across various domains, but their reliability is hindered by the outdated knowledge and hallucinations. Retrieval-Augmented Generation mitigates these issues by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Tianjun Yao , Haoxuan Li , Zhiqiang Shen , Pan Li , Tongliang Liu , Kun Zhang

The Semantic Web research community understood since its beginning how crucial it is to equip practitioners with methods to transform non-RDF resources into RDF. Proposals focus on either engineering content transformations or accessing…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Enrico Daga , Luigi Asprino , Paul Mulholland , Aldo Gangemi