An Event Based Denotational Semantics for Natural Language Queries to Data Represented in Triple Stores

Author

Frost, Richard A. ; St. Amour, Bryan ; Fortier, Randy

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada

fYear

2013

fDate

16-18 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

142

Lastpage

145

Abstract

Binary-relational and graph-based databases are more flexible than conventional relational databases because the type of data to be stored does not need to be known in advance. In many implementations of these systems the data is held in a "triple store". This paper presents a new event-based denotational semantics which can be used as the basis for natural-language (NL) query interfaces to triple stores. This paper is also a first step towards an NL semantics which can be used for building NL query interfaces to RDF semantic web data.

Keywords

data structures; graph theory; natural language interfaces; natural language processing; query processing; relational databases; semantic Web; NL query interfaces; NL semantics; RDF semantic Web data; binary-relational database; conventional relational databases; data representation; event based denotational semantics; event-based denotational semantics; graph-based database; natural language query; natural-language query interfaces; triple stores; Computer science; Educational institutions; Natural languages; Relational databases; Semantics; Syntactics; Montague semantics; binary-relational database; denotational semantics; natural-language query; prepositional phrases; triple store;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semantic Computing (ICSC), 2013 IEEE Seventh International Conference on

Conference_Location

Irvine, CA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSC.2013.33

Filename

6693508