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 write
> if 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 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
>>>>
>>>