Re: ChatGPT, ontologies and SPARQL

Large language model interfaces with knowledge bases are a key ingredient for digital empowerment of all stakeholders in the promotion of sustainable development.
The sad reality is that of the 7,151 living languages (source: http://www.ethnologue.com) fewer than 200 are served currently in NLP applications and AI chatbots.
Even though there are linguistic tools available in principle to support digital environments for all languages with populations of speakers of e.g. 1,000 or more the situation is comparable to the pharmaceutical industry where only the discovery and development of new drugs for large enough markets is pursued.
So we can actually state that wide scale applications of chatbot applications and similar AI NLP application will only widen the digital divide. See more about this on https://www.sil.org.
 
The GLIKI project (https://gliki.wordpress.com) was formulated to help bridge this divide. This project is soon going into execution mode.

It is also instructive to see what the IFLA, International Federation of Library Associations (https://www.ifla.org) is doing in terms of open access to knowledge.
Open access to digital libraries and knowledge repositories is crucial in developing countries and is currently a totally neglected and ignored subject with Big Internet Tech companies, yet these developing countries provide a huge potential customer base for internet services, in particular for online education, online healthcare, cloud and edge computing services.
Bilingual access (one international language and a native language) could boost internet services and stimulate local development of NLP and AI applications.

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    On Friday, January 20, 2023 at 12:39:15 AM AST, Adam Sobieski <adamsobieski@hotmail.com> wrote:  
 
 #yiv6304060995 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}Hello. I am also thinking about artificial neural networks, dialogue systems, and Semantic Web technologies, as Xavier asked about. I agree with Paola that natural-language interfaces to knowledgebases have been a while coming. Thank you, Dan, for pointing out: https://github.com/jerryjliu/gpt_index .
In the near future, it could be the case that content could move between the semantic working memories of artificial neural networks and external knowledgebases.

I would like to share a hyperlink to an article which I recently wrote. The article discusses artificial neural networks, (cognitive) semantics, and semantic cognition. The article is, however, more about DALL-E 2 than ChatGPT.
In the short article: I envision systems which can bidirectionally transform content pairwise between language, visual imagery, and semantics; I discuss the ideas of artificial concepts, categories, attributes, and relationships; and I show that varieties of multimodal semantics are already enhancing the performance of AI systems with respect to visual question answering, language-related, and vision-related tasks.
The article is available here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/artificial-neural-networks-semantic-cognition-adam-sobieski/ .

If you enjoy the article, please do like and share it on LinkedIn! Thank you.

Best regards,Adam
From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2023 12:56 AM
To: Paola Di Maio <paoladimaio10@gmail.com>
Cc: SW-forum <semantic-web@w3.org>; W3C AIKR CG <public-aikr@w3.org>
Subject: Re: ChatGPT, ontologies and SPARQL 

On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 at 04:14, Paola Di Maio <paoladimaio10@gmail.com> wrote:

The semantic web has been waiting for natural language interfaces (well, at least I have)for decades, ideally read and writeif this tool can be used like that then lets see it
@Danbri share results sometime?

Search twitter: chatgpt sparql… lots of folk experimenting 
Dan




On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 10:33 PM Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org> wrote:



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 languagethanks 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…



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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 YESIt would be amazing to have a tool that can translate natural language queries into sparqland remove a major hurdle to using open ontologies on the webPlease, lets set up a catalogue of examples and evaluate the resultsgreat functionality if it worksthank 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/>
PREFIX dbr: <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