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    Flexible query processing for SPARQL

    Frosini, R. and Calì, Andrea and Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Wood, Peter T. (2017) Flexible query processing for SPARQL. Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability 8 (4), pp. 533-563. ISSN 1570-0844.

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    Abstract

    Flexible querying techniques can enhance users' access to complex, heterogeneous datasets in settings such as Linked Data, where the user may not always know how a query should be formulated in order to retrieve the desired answers. This paper presents query processing algorithms for a fragment of SPARQL 1.1 incorporating regular path queries (property path queries), extended with query approximation and relaxation operators. Our flexible query processing approach is based on query rewriting and returns answers incrementally according to their ``distance'' from the exact form of the query. We formally show the soundness, completeness and termination properties of our query rewriting algorithm. We also present empirical results that show promising query processing performance for the extended language.

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    Item Type: Article
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Semantic Web, SPARQL 1.1, path queries, query approximation, query relaxation
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
    Research Centres and Institutes: Innovation Management Research, Birkbeck Centre for, Bioinformatics, Bloomsbury Centre for (Closed), Birkbeck Knowledge Lab, Data Analytics, Birkbeck Institute for
    Depositing User: Peter Wood
    Date Deposited: 09 Nov 2015 15:53
    Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:37
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13373

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