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Making the content generated by Large Language Model (LLM), accurate, credible and traceable is crucial, especially in complex knowledge-intensive tasks that require multi-step reasoning and each step needs knowledge to solve.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Shicheng Xu , Liang Pang , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng , Tat-Seng Chua

The SPARQL query language is a recent W3C standard for processing RDF data, a format that has been developed to encode information in a machine-readable way. We investigate the foundations of SPARQL query optimization and (a) provide novel…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-01-26 Michael Schmidt , Michael Meier , Georg Lausen

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

Accessing the large volumes of information available in public knowledge bases might be complicated for those users unfamiliar with the SPARQL query language. Automatic translation of questions posed in natural language in SPARQL has the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Manuel A. Borroto Santana , Francesco Ricca , Bernardo Cuteri

Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to significant improvements in the Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) task. However, datasets used in KBQA studies do not capture the true complexity of KBQA tasks. They either have simple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Shicheng Liu , Sina J. Semnani , Harold Triedman , Jialiang Xu , Isaac Dan Zhao , Monica S. Lam

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

User queries in information retrieval are often ambiguous, making it challenging for systems to identify a user's target from a single query. While recent dialogue-based interactive retrieval systems can clarify user intent, they are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Dong Yun , Marco Schouten , Dim Papadopoulos

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have opened new opportunities for academic literature retrieval. However, existing systems often rely on rigid pipelines and exhibit limited reasoning capabilities. We introduce SPAR, a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Xiaofeng Shi , Yuduo Li , Qian Kou , Longbin Yu , Jinxin Xie , Hua Zhou

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has revolutionized many fields, not only traditional natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Recently, research on applying LLMs to the database field has been booming, and as a typical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yuanyuan Liang , Tingyu Xie , Gan Peng , Zihao Huang , Yunshi Lan , Weining Qian

SPARQL query editors often lack intuitive interfaces to aid SPARQL-savvy users to write queries. To address this issue, we propose an easy-to-deploy, triple store-agnostic and open-source query editor that offers three main features: (i)…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Vincent Emonet , Ana-Claudia Sima , Tarcisio Mendes de Farias

Conversational search aims to retrieve passages containing essential information to answer queries in a multi-turn conversation. In conversational search, reformulating context-dependent conversational queries into stand-alone forms is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yunah Jang , Kang-il Lee , Hyunkyung Bae , Hwanhee Lee , Kyomin Jung

While search is the predominant method of accessing information, formulating effective queries remains a challenging task, especially for situations where the users are not familiar with a domain, or searching for documents in other…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Kaustubh D. Dhole , Ramraj Chandradevan , Eugene Agichtein

Natural language interfaces (NLIs) provide users with a convenient way to interactively analyze data through natural language queries. Nevertheless, interactive data analysis is a demanding process, especially for novice data analysts. When…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Xingbo Wang , Furui Cheng , Yong Wang , Ke Xu , Jiang Long , Hong Lu , Huamin Qu

Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies have revolutionized the way we interact with information systems, with a significant focus on converting natural language queries into formal query languages such as SQL. However, less emphasis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Luming Lu , Jiyuan An , Yujie Wang , Liner yang , Cunliang Kong , Zhenghao Liu , Shuo Wang , Haozhe Lin , Mingwei Fang , Yaping Huang , Erhong Yang

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

Text-to-SQL, the process of translating natural language into Structured Query Language (SQL), represents a transformative application of large language models (LLMs), potentially revolutionizing how humans interact with data. This paper…

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

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) with Knowledge Graphs (KGs) offers significant synergistic potential for knowledge-driven applications. One possible integration is the interpretation and generation of formal languages, such…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Lars-Peter Meyer , Johannes Frey , Felix Brei , Natanael Arndt

As of today, there exists no standard language for querying Linked Data on the Web, where navigation across distributed data sources is a key feature. A natural candidate seems to be SPARQL, which recently has been enhanced with…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Olaf Hartig , Giuseppe Pirro

In recent years, the field of neural machine translation (NMT) for SPARQL query generation has witnessed significant growth. Incorporating the copy mechanism with traditional encoder-decoder architectures and using pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Papa Abdou Karim Karou Diallo , Samuel Reyd , Amal Zouaq