A few years after Google announced that their 'Knowledge Graph'would have allowed
searching for things, not strings, 1 knowledge graphs start entering information retrieval …

Currently, techniques for content description and query processing in Information Retrieval
(IR) are based on keywords, and therefore provide limited capabilities to capture the …

The need to query information content available in various formats including structured and
unstructured data (text in natural language, semi-structured Web documents, structured RDF …

The availability of large amounts of open, distributed, and structured semantic data on the
web has no precedent in the history of computer science. In recent years, there have been …

With the continued growth of online semantic information, the processes of searching and
managing this massive scale and heterogeneous content have become increasingly …

Abstract Natural Language Interfaces are increasingly relevant for information systems
fronting rich structured data stores such as RDF and OWL repositories, mainly because of …

With the recent rapid growth of the Semantic Web (SW), the processes of searching and
querying content that is both massive in scale and heterogeneous have become …

Current information retrieval (IR) approaches do not formally capture the explicit meaning of
a keyword query but provide a comfortable way for the user to specify information needs on …

With large datasets such as Linked Open Data available, there is a need for more user-
friendly interfaces which will bring the advantages of these data closer to the casual users …

Accessing structured data such as that encoded in ontologies and knowledge bases can be
done using either syntactically complex formal query languages like SPARQL or …