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This paper elaborates on ontology-based end-user visual query formulation, particularly for users who otherwise cannot/do not desire to use formal textual query languages to retrieve data due to the lack of technical knowledge and skills. Then, it provides a set of quality attributes and features, primarily elicited via a series of industrial end-user workshops and user studies carried out in the course of an industrial EU project, to guide the design and development of successor visual query systems.
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Soylu, A., Giese, M. (2016). Qualifying Ontology-Based Visual Query Formulation. In: Andreasen, T., et al. Flexible Query Answering Systems 2015. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 400. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26154-6_19
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