SPARQL2AL : translating SPARQL queries to Arabic language

Other Title(s)

ترجمة استعلامات سباركل إلى استعلامات اللغة العربية

Dissertant

al-Radi, Umar Salah Rajab

Thesis advisor

al-Agha, Iyad Muhammad

Comitee Members

Barakah, Ribhi Sulayman
Fatayir, Tamir Sad

University

Islamic University

Faculty

Faculty of Information Technology

Department

Information Technology

University Country

Palestine (Gaza Strip)

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2015

English Abstract

With the wide spread of Open Linked Data and Semantic Web technologies, a larger amount of data is published on the Web in the RDF and OWL format.

This data can be queried and retrieved using the Semantic Web Query Language SPARQL.

SPARQL is one of the three core technologies of the Semantic Web beside OWL and RDF.

However, SPARQL cannot be understood by naïve users and it is not directly accessible to humans, and thus, they will not be able to check whether the retrieved answers truly correspond to the intended information needed.

Because natural language generation from RDF data has recently become an important topic for research, this has led to the development of various systems generating natural language text from knowledge bases.

This work proposes an approach to translate SPARQL to the Arabic language.

It introduces the SPARQL2AL system that can interface to any Arabic ontology, get a SPARQL query as an input and retrieve valid Arabic statements.

While few efforts proposed approaches to transform SPARQL queries to the natural language, most of these efforts focused on English domain.

To convert SPARQL to Arabic natural language the SPARQL query passes through several phases; firstly, translations of query terms are extracted from the ontology, assuming that there exists an ontology of domain terms on which we run SPARQL queries to retrieve data.

Secondly, we define a set of Arabic language dependencies to identify how query terms are mapped to Arabic sentences.

Thirdly, define a set of rules to transform parts of SPARQL to Arabic sentences.

Finally, we remove redundancies, group the results and output the Arabic statement

Main Subjects

Information Technology and Computer Science

No. of Pages

101

Table of Contents

Table of contents.

Abstract.

Abstract in Arabic.

Chapter One : Introduction.

Chapter Two : Background.

Chapter Three : Related work.

Chapter Four : SPARQL2AL system.

Chapter Five : Case studies.

Chapter Six : Experimental results and evaluation.

Chapter Seven : Conclusion and future work.

References.

American Psychological Association (APA)

al-Radi, Umar Salah Rajab. (2015). SPARQL2AL : translating SPARQL queries to Arabic language. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Islamic University, Palestine (Gaza Strip)
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-724516

Modern Language Association (MLA)

al-Radi, Umar Salah Rajab. SPARQL2AL : translating SPARQL queries to Arabic language. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Islamic University. (2015).
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-724516

American Medical Association (AMA)

al-Radi, Umar Salah Rajab. (2015). SPARQL2AL : translating SPARQL queries to Arabic language. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Islamic University, Palestine (Gaza Strip)
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-724516

Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-724516