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EKAW
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
A Visual Approach to Semantic Query Design Using a Web-Based Graphical Query Designer
Query formulation is a key aspect of information retrieval, contributing to both the efficiency and usability of many semantic applications. A number of query languages, such as SP...
Paul R. Smart, Alistair Russell, Dave Braines, Yan...
DLOG
2007
13 years 6 months ago
OntoVQL: A Graphical Query Language for OWL Ontologies
The database usability experience has shown that visual query languages tend to be superior to textual languages in many aspects. By applying this principle in the context of ontol...
Amineh Fadhil, Volker Haarslev
VLDB
1991
ACM
196views Database» more  VLDB 1991»
13 years 8 months ago
Kaleidoscope Data Model for An English-like Query Language
Most database interfaces provide poor guidance on ad hoc query formulation, burdening users to learn, and to recall precisely the query language and the database. Kaleidoscope avo...
Sang Kyun Cha, Gio Wiederhold
WEBDB
2000
Springer
120views Database» more  WEBDB 2000»
13 years 8 months ago
Quilt: An XML Query Language for Heterogeneous Data Sources
The World Wide Web promises to transform human society by making virtually all types of information instantly available everywhere. Two prerequisites for this promise to be realiz...
Donald D. Chamberlin, Jonathan Robie, Daniela Flor...
DOOD
1995
Springer
124views Database» more  DOOD 1995»
13 years 8 months ago
Querying Semistructured Heterogeneous Information
Abstract. Semistructured data has no absolute schema xed in advance and its structure may be irregular or incomplete. Such data commonly arises in sources that do not impose a rigi...
Dallan Quass, Anand Rajaraman, Yehoshua Sagiv, Jef...
OODBS
2000
147views Database» more  OODBS 2000»
13 years 8 months ago
Towards a Unified Query-by-Example (UQBE): UML as a Basis for a Generic Graphical Query Language
A generic graphical query language for ODMG-compliant object databases is proposed, based on the ideas of Query-By-Example, and using UML-like diagrams as schema notation. Ease of ...
Miguel Ángel Sicilia Urbán, Elena Ga...
EDBTW
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Implementing a Linguistic Query Language for Historic Texts
Abstract. We describe design and implementation of the linguistic query language DDDquery. This language aims at querying a large linguistic database storing a corpus of richly ann...
Lukas Faulstich, Ulf Leser, Thorsten Vitt
DILS
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
On Querying OBO Ontologies Using a DAG Pattern Query Language
The Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) is a consortium that serves as a repository of ontologies that are structured like directed acyclic graphs. In this paper we present a language...
Amarnath Gupta, Simone Santini
VLDB
1989
ACM
137views Database» more  VLDB 1989»
13 years 8 months ago
Pasta-3's Graphical Query Language: Direct Manipulation, Cooperative Queries, Full Expressive Power
Graphical Direct Manipulation (GrDM) query languagesare characterized and positioned with respect to traditional textual query languages. After a brief survey of the current state...
Michel Kuntz, Rainer Melchert
FMLDO
1990
Springer
86views Database» more  FMLDO 1990»
13 years 8 months ago
Views in Object-Oriented Databases
Object-oriented database systems (ooDBMSs) are supposed to offer at least the functionality available in commercial relational DBMSs of today. One important consequence of this is...
Marc H. Scholl, Christian Laasch, Markus Tresch