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SPARQL as a Foreign Language

25 Aug 2017arXiv:1708.07624archive 2025-07-28

Tommaso Soru, Edgard Marx, Diego Moussallem, Gustavo Publio, André Valdestilhas, Diego Esteves, Ciro Baron Neto

In the last years, the Linked Data Cloud has achieved a size of more than 100 billion facts pertaining to a multitude of domains. However, accessing this information has been significantly challenging for lay users. Approaches to problems such as Question Answering on Linked Data and Link Discovery have notably played a role in increasing information access. These approaches are often based on handcrafted and/or statistical models derived from data observation. Recently, Deep Learning architectures based on Neural Networks called seq2seq have shown to achieve state-of-the-art results at translating sequences into sequences. In this direction, we propose Neural SPARQL Machines, end-to-end deep architectures to translate any natural language expression into sentences encoding SPARQL queries. Our preliminary results, restricted on selected DBpedia classes, show that Neural SPARQL Machines are a promising approach for Question Answering on Linked Data, as they can deal with known problems such as vocabulary mismatch and perform graph pattern composition.

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Graph Question AnsweringKnowledge Base Question AnsweringSemantic Parsing

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LSTMSeq2SeqSigmoid ActivationTanh Activation

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