Title
Context-Free Path Queries on RDF Graphs
Abstract
Navigational graph queries are an important class of queries that can extract implicit binary relations over the nodes of input graphs. Most of the navigational query languages used in the RDF community, e.g. property paths in W3C SPARQL 1.1 and nested regular expressions in nSPARQL, are based on the regular expressions. It is known that regular expressions have limited expressivity; for instance, some natural queries, like same generation-queries, are not expressible with regular expressions. To overcome this limitation, in this paper, we present cfSPARQL, an extension of SPARQL query language equipped with context-ree grammars. The cfSPARQL language is strictly more expressive than property paths and nested expressions. The additional expressivity can be used for modelling graph similarities, graph summarization and ontology alignment. Despite the increasing expressivity, we show that cfSPARQL still enjoys a low computational complexity and can be evaluated efficiently.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-46523-4_38
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Field
DocType
Volume
Query language,Regular expression,RDF query language,Expression (mathematics),Computer science,Path expression,SPARQL,Theoretical computer science,Spatial query,Database,RDF
Journal
9981
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
10
0.60
References 
Authors
23
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaowang Zhang116338.77
Zhiyong Feng2794167.21
Xin Wang36524.90
Guozheng Rao4309.79