Re: natural language visual interface for SPARQL

Hi Paola,

On 18 Aug 2012, at 16:24, Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com>
 wrote:

> Thank you v much, Marco and Hugh
> 
> I just recalled that I must have asked the same question before, and
> probably ask the same question at regular intervals (3-5 years?)
> (loop)
> 
> Indeed Roberto Garcia mentioned he picked up on the request a while
> back (just remembered what is it that he and I talked about when we
> met) and we discussed briefly its design/ implementation in 2009. but
> it requires a download? thats not a web service  is it? (sorry I have
> reasons not to download stuff if possible)
> 
> ... I d like to test the web service when it comes available... keep us informed
> 
> HUGH
> 
> the link you sent looks good (in the sense that i can see something
> and i can click on the links) but it looks like the output of a query
> rather than the input,
> 
> how was this output obtained?
It's the outputs of shitloads of queries.
It accesses lost of services (http://www.rkbexplorer.com/services/), each of which makes perhaps many 1000s of queries, URI resolutions, and other logic, often of 100s (even 1000s) of sameAs URIs per resource.
And of course there is a complex caching system, etc. behind it, for performance reasons.
> 
> is there a visual input screen where the search/query values can be
> entered/modified? (thats what I am looking for)
As I thought - it isn't what you are looking for.

Best
Hugh
> 
> 
> thanks
> 
> PDM
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Hi Marco,
>> Thanks for the shout out for rkbexplorer
>> I'm not sure it is the sort of thing Paola is talking about.
>> But in case you are interested we have a new user interface version of the RKB knowledge over at
>> http://www.dotac.info/explorer/
>> Best
>> Hugh
>> 
>> On 18 Aug 2012, at 14:03, Marco Neumann <marco.neumann@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> take a look at the Rhizomer tool
>>> 
>>> http://www.meetup.com/The-San-Francisco-Semantic-Web-Meetup/events/72935902/
>>> 
>>> and the RKBExplorer
>>> 
>>> http://www.rkbexplorer.com
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 8:53 AM, 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 

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