Extending SPARQL with regular expression patterns (for querying RDF)

Web Semantics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 57-73

  Alkhateeb, Faisal ^a   Baget, Jean François ^b   Euzenat, Jérôme ^c  

^a YARMOUK UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b INRIA   (France)

^c INRIA RHÔNE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Query language; RDF; Regular expression patterns; Semantic web; SPARQL

Indexed keywords

GRAPH HOMOMORPHISMS; GRAPH PATTERNS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION LANGUAGES; PATH EXPRESSIONS; QUERY ENGINES; RDF; RDF GRAPHS; RDF MODELS; REGULAR EXPRESSION PATTERNS; SPARQL;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION THEORY; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; LINGUISTICS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 67349264859     PISSN: 15708268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.websem.2009.02.002     Document Type: Article

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