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A Semantic Web Interface Using Patterns: The SWIP System

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Our purpose is to hide the complexity of formulating a query expressed in a graph query language such as SPARQL. We propose a mechanism allowing queries to be expressed in a very simple pivot language, mainly composed of keywords and relations between keywords. Our system associates the keywords with the corresponding elements of the ontology (classes, relations, instances). Then it selects pre-written query patterns, and instanciates them with regard to the keywords of the initial query. Several possible queries are generated, ranked and then shown to the user. These queries are presented by means of natural language sentences. The user then selects the query he/she is interested in and the SPARQL query is built.

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  1. Département de Mathématiques-Informatique, IRIT, Université de Toulouse le Mirail, 5 allées Antonio Machado, F-31058, Toulouse Cedex, France

    Camille Pradel, Ollivier Haemmerlé & Nathalie Hernandez

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  1. University Montpellier II, 161 rue Ada, 34095, Montpellier, France

    Madalina Croitoru

  2. Karlsruhe Institue of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Sebastian Rudolph

  3. 4C Computater Science, University College Cork, Western Road, Cork, Ireland

    Nic Wilson

  4. School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Brighton, Lewes Road, BN2 4GJ, Brighton, UK

    John Howse

  5. INRIA, 2004 route des Lucioles, 6902, Sophia Antipolis, France

    Olivier Corby

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Pradel, C., Haemmerlé, O., Hernandez, N. (2012). A Semantic Web Interface Using Patterns: The SWIP System. In: Croitoru, M., Rudolph, S., Wilson, N., Howse, J., Corby, O. (eds) Graph Structures for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7205. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29449-5_7

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