A User Interface for Exploring and Querying Knowledge Graphs (Extended Abstract)

A User Interface for Exploring and Querying Knowledge Graphs (Extended Abstract)

Hernán Vargas, Carlos Buil-Aranda, Aidan Hogan, Claudia López

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Sister Conferences Best Papers. Pages 4785-4789. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2020/666

As the adoption of knowledge graphs grows, more and more non-experts users need to be able to explore and query such graphs. These users are not typically familiar with graph query languages such as SPARQL, and may not be familiar with the knowledge graph's structure. In this extended abstract, we provide a summary of our work on a language and visual interface -- called RDF Explorer -- that help non-expert users to navigate and query knowledge graphs. A usability study over Wikidata shows that users successfully complete more tasks with RDF Explorer than with the existing Wikidata Query Helper interface.
Keywords:
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Semantic Web
Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications: Databases