Re: ChatGPT, ontologies and SPARQL

On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 at 14:21, Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com> wrote:

> fyi - would be good to be able to generate sparql queries and interact
> with ontologies using natural language
> thanks to this user for discovering this feature
>

In general these new large LLM models seem to have a weird effect on
commentators: their ability to casually and confidently just make up
answers, tends to distract from their less exciting but potentially
transformative ability to kinda-sorta-kinda “understand” questions
expressed in natural language.

Dan

ps. folk here might find
https://github.com/jerryjliu/gpt_index worth exploring, as a tool that
supports idea of combining LLMs with external data. I have also had
promising results using GPT-* etc to generate SPARQL…



> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 10:15 PM
> Subject: Re: ChatGPT, ontologies and SPARQL
> To: Contact - Cogsonomy <contact@cogsonomy.fr>
> Cc: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
>
>
> assuming the syntax is good
>  (your example validates here http://sparql.org/$/validate/query)
> then it looks like a big YES
> It would be amazing to have a tool that can translate natural language
> queries into sparql
> and remove a major hurdle to using open ontologies on the web
> Please, lets set up a catalogue of examples and evaluate the results
> great functionality if it works
> thank you
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 10:41 PM Contact - Cogsonomy <contact@cogsonomy.fr>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I asked chatGPT to create a sparql query for DBPedia by translating my
>> question expressed in natural language : "Give me all the names of the
>> cities located in France whose number of inhabitants is greater than
>> 10,000".
>>
>> Its answer was as follows :
>>
>> *here's the SPARQL query to answer the question:*
>>
>> *PREFIX dbo: <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/>
>> <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/>*
>> *PREFIX dbr: <http://dbpedia.org/resource/>
>> <http://dbpedia.org/resource/>*
>> *SELECT ?city *
>> *WHERE {*
>> *  ?city a dbo:City;*
>> *        dbo:populationTotal ?population;*
>> *        dbo:country dbr:France.*
>> *  FILTER (?population > 10000)*
>> *}*
>>
>> *This query uses the dbo prefix to access the DBpedia ontology and the
>> dbr prefix to access the DBpedia resources. It selects the names of cities
>> (?city) that are instances of dbo:City, have a total population
>> (?population) greater than 10000, and have the dbo:country property with
>> the value dbr:France (which represents France).*
>>
>> We can see on social networks several tests of chatGPT related to
>> ontologies.  Do you think we can use chatGPT to query natural language
>> ontologies (if we give it the structure before, of course)? And if we give
>> a consequent corpus in learning to the GPT-3 algorithm (or its successor),
>> do you think that it could build the ontology based on this corpus? More
>> generally, will our vision of ontologies not be modified by the arrival and
>> the rise of this kind of tool?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>          Xavier
>>
>