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The Swip approach aims at translating into SPARQL queries expressed in natural language exploiting query patterns. In this article, we present the main module of the prototype implementing this approach which entirely relies on SPARQL. All steps of the interpretation process which are carried out in this module are indeed completely performed on RDF triple stores through SPARQL updates. Thus, the implementation gets benefit from SPARQL engine capabilities, which prevent us from worrying about graph manipulation and matching.
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Pradel, C., Haemmerlé, O., Hernandez, N. (2014). Swip: A Natural Language to SPARQL Interface Implemented with SPARQL. In: Hernandez, N., Jäschke, R., Croitoru, M. (eds) Graph-Based Representation and Reasoning. ICCS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8577. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08389-6_21
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