Title
User-friendly temporal queries on historical knowledge bases.
Abstract
DBpedia and other RFD-encoded Knowledge Bases (KB)s give users access to encyclopedic knowledge via SPARQL queries. As the world evolves, the KBs are updated, and the history of entities and their properties becomes of great interest. Thus, we need powerful tools and friendly interfaces to query histories and flash-back to the past. Here, we propose (i) a point-based temporal extension of SPARQL, called SPARQLT, which enables simple and concise expression of temporal queries, and (ii) an extension of Wikipedia Infoboxes to support user-friendly by-example temporal queries implemented by mapping them into SPARQLT. Our main-memory RDF-TX system supports such queries efficiently using Multi-Version B+ trees, compressed indexes, and query optimization techniques, which achieve performance and scalability, as demonstrated by experiments on historical datasets including Cliopedia derived from Wikipedia dumps. We finally discuss how provenance information can be used to add valid-time features to these transaction-time KBs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.ic.2017.08.012
Information and Computation
Field
DocType
Volume
Query optimization,Information system,Information retrieval,Computer science,SPARQL,User Friendly,Database transaction,Scalability
Journal
259
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
Part
0890-5401
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
39
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Carlo Zaniolo143051447.58
Shi Gao21127.72
Atzori, Maurizio328525.73
Muhao Chen48320.01
Jiaqi Gu5263.13