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

摘要

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.