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We consider the recommendations of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) about the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the associated query language SPARQL. We propose a new formal framework based on category theory which provides clear…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Dominique Duval , Rachid Echahed , Frederic Prost

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

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

Despite much work within the last decade on foundational properties of SPARQL - the standard query language for RDF data - rather little is known about the exact limits of tractability for this language. In particular, this is the case for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Stefan Mengel , Sebastian Skritek

We consider the recommendations of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) about RDF framework and its associated query language SPARQL. We propose a new formal framework based on category theory which provides clear and concise formal…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Dominique Duval , Rachid Echahed , Frédéric Prost

Reasoning in the Semantic Web (SW) commonly uses Description Logics (DL) via OWL2 DL ontologies, or SWRL for variables and Horn clauses. The Rule Interchange Format (RIF) offers more expressive rules but is defined outside RDF and rarely…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Dörthe Arndt , William Van Woensel , Dominik Tomaszuk

Recently, the SPARQL query language for RDF has reached the W3C recommendation status. In response to this emerging standard, the database community is currently exploring efficient storage techniques for RDF data and evaluation strategies…

Databases · Computer Science 2008-10-21 Michael Schmidt , Thomas Hornung , Georg Lausen , Christoph Pinkel

Although SPARQL has been the predominant query language over RDF graphs, some query intentions cannot be well captured by only using SPARQL syntax. On the other hand, the keyword search enjoys widespread usage because of its intuitive way…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Peng Peng , Lei Zou , Dongyan Zhao

Understanding how users tailor their SPARQL queries is crucial when designing query evaluation engines or fine-tuning RDF stores with performance in mind. In this paper we analyze 3 million real-world SPARQL queries extracted from logs of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-03-28 Mario Arias , Javier D. Fernández , Miguel A. Martínez-Prieto , Pablo de la Fuente

With the adoption of RDF as the data model for Linked Data and the Semantic Web, query specification from end- users has become more and more common in SPARQL end- points. In this paper, we conduct an in-depth analytical study of the…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Angela Bonifati , Wim Martens , Thomas Timm

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

The World Wide Web currently evolves into a Web of Linked Data where content providers publish and link data as they have done with hypertext for the last 20 years. While the declarative query language SPARQL is the de facto for querying…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-04-09 Olaf Hartig

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

In SPARQL, the query forms SELECT and CONSTRUCT have been the subject of several studies, both theoretical and practical. However, the composition of such queries and their interweaving when forming involved nested queries has not yet…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Dominique Duval , Rachid Echahed , Frederic Prost

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

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

We propose an efficient and scalable architecture for processing generalized graph-pattern queries as they are specified by the current W3C recommendation of the SPARQL 1.1 "Query Language" component. Specifically, the class of queries we…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Sairam Gurajada , Martin Theobald

As Resource Description Framework (RDF) is becoming a popular data modelling standard, the challenges of efficient processing of Basic Graph Pattern (BGP) SPARQL queries (a.k.a. SQL inner-joins) have been a focus of the research community…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Medha Atre

In recent years, querying semantic web data using SPARQL has remained challenging, especially for non-expert users, due to the language's complex syntax and the prerequisite of understanding intricate data structures. To address these…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Xiangru Jian , Zhengyuan Dong , M. Tamer Özsu

Within the Semantic Web community, SPARQL is one of the predominant languages to query and update RDF knowledge. However, the complexity of SPARQL, the underlying graph structure and various encodings are common sources of confusion for…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Markus Schröder , Jörn Hees , Ansgar Bernardi , Daniel Ewert , Peter Klotz , Steffen Stadtmüller
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