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Natural language database interfaces broaden data access, yet they remain brittle under input ambiguity. Standard approaches often collapse uncertainty into a single query, offering little support for mismatches between user intent and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Robin Shing Moon Chan , Rita Sevastjanova , Mennatallah El-Assady

We show how to achieve fast autocompletion for SPARQL queries on very large knowledge bases. At any position in the body of a SPARQL query, the autocompletion suggests matching subjects, predicates, or objects. The suggestions are…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Hannah Bast , Johannes Kalmbach , Theresa Klumpp , Florian Kramer , Niklas Schnelle

In this work we will show that language models with less than one billion parameters can be used to translate natural language to SPARQL queries after fine-tuning. Using three different datasets ranging from academic to real world, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Felix Brei , Johannes Frey , Lars-Peter Meyer

Data is growing rapidly in volume and complexity. Proficiency in database query languages is pivotal for crafting effective queries. As coding assistants become more prevalent, there is significant opportunity to enhance database query…

Natural Language (NL) recommender systems aim to retrieve relevant items from free-form user queries and item descriptions. Existing systems often rely on dense retrieval (DR), which struggles to interpret challenging queries that express…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Qianfeng Wen , Yifan Liu , Justin Cui , Joshua Zhang , Anton Korikov , George-Kirollos Saad , Scott Sanner

Large language model (LLM)-based search agents have proven promising for addressing knowledge-intensive problems by incorporating information retrieval capabilities. Existing works largely focus on optimizing the reasoning paradigms of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Tongyu Wen , Guanting Dong , Zhicheng Dou

Existing studies on semantic parsing focus primarily on mapping a natural-language utterance to a corresponding logical form in one turn. However, because natural language can contain a great deal of ambiguity and variability, this is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Lingbo Mo , Ashley Lewis , Huan Sun , Michael White

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

We present a new AI task and baseline solution for Inter-Subjective Reasoning. We define inter-subjective information, to be a mixture of objective and subjective information possibly shared by different parties. Examples may include…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Nick Papoulias

Semantic Question Answering (SQA) systems automatically interpret user questions expressed in a natural language in terms of semantic queries. This process involves uncertainty, such that the resulting queries do not always accurately match…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Hamid Zafar , Mohnish Dubey , Jens Lehmann , Elena Demidova

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

Graph database query languages feature expressive, yet computationally expensive pattern matching capabilities. Answering optional query clauses in SPARQL for instance renders the query evaluation problem immediately Pspace-complete.…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Stephan Mennicke , Jan-Christoph Kalo , Denis Nagel , Hermann Kroll , Wolf-Tilo Balke

Query understanding in Conversational Information Seeking (CIS) involves accurately interpreting user intent through context-aware interactions. This includes resolving ambiguities, refining queries, and adapting to evolving information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yifei Yuan , Zahra Abbasiantaeb , Yang Deng , Mohammad Aliannejadi

Recent works have attempted to integrate external knowledge into LLMs to address the limitations and potential factual errors in LLM-generated content. However, how to retrieve the correct knowledge from the large amount of external…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Haowei Du , Dongyan Zhao

Natural Language Search (NLS) extends the capabilities of search engines that perform keyword search allowing users to issue queries in a more "natural" language. The engine tries to understand the meaning of the queries and to map the…

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

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have propelled research in natural language interfaces to databases. However, most state-of-the-art text-to-SQL systems still depend on complex, multi-stage pipelines. This work proposes a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Fernando Granado , Roberto Lotufo , Jayr Pereira

SPARQL is the standard query language for RDF graphs. In its strict instantiation, it only offers querying according to the RDF semantics and would thus ignore the semantics of data expressed with respect to (RDF) schemas or (OWL)…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-11-18 Faisal Alkhateeb , Jérôme Euzenat

Efficient usage of the knowledge provided by the Linked Data community is often hindered by the need for domain experts to formulate the right SPARQL queries to answer questions. For new questions they have to decide which datasets are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Jörn Hees , Rouven Bauer , Joachim Folz , Damian Borth , Andreas Dengel

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) is a formal language for specifying real-time behaviors of cyber-physical systems (CPS). Automatically transforming natural language requirements into STL specifications has received growing attention. Recent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yue Fang , Zhi Jin , Jie An , Hongshen Chen , Xiaohong Chen , Naijun Zhan