Re: natural language visual interface for SPARQL

Paola,
you may try Explorator, http://www.tecweb.inf.puc-rio.br/explorator. It is an exploratory environment, which allows to do queries without necessarily writing SPARQL directly. There is a video explaining how it works.

Best
Daniel
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On Aug 18, 2012, at 09:53  - 18/08/12, Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com> wrote:

> I  have been thinking, why isnt there a web service that allows users
> to carry out supported sparql queries
> by having an HTML front end where users can simply input the variables
> as text, and let the service compose the query
> 
> this would, in theory, enable anyone to query specific urls, or search
> open web via the usual search indexes for data published in OWL/RDF.
> or at least try
> 
> lot of interesting papers that tackle the subject, but no URL for
> such a web service
> 
> 
> http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=natural+language+interface+for+sparql+web+service&oq=natural+language+interface+for+sparql+web+service&gs_l=hp.3...59522.61537.2.61657.12.12.0.0.0.0.589.2703.0j4j1j1j2j1.9.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.4xjzkXaA4RQ&psj=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=648acda22bf0fc4e&biw=1016&bih=626
> 
> would this approach crack at least some of the SW challenges?
> 
> anything already in the works that can be tested?
> 
> any specific issues that should prevent this approach to be feasible?
> 
> 
> Thank you very much
> 
> pdm
>

Received on Saturday, 18 August 2012 17:44:16 UTC