| 摘要 |
In the realm of managing relational databases, a system that uses both the data in a relational database and domain knowledge in ontologies to return semantically relevant results to a user's query. Broadly contemplated herein, in essence, is a system that bridges a semantic gap between queries users want to express and queries that can be answered by the database using domain knowledge contained in ontologies. In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, such a system extends relational databases with the ability to answer semantic queries that are represented in SPARQL, an emerging Semantic Web query language. Particularly, users may express their queries in SPARQL, based on a semantic model of the data, and they get back semantically relevant results. Also broadly contemplated herein is the definition of different categories of results that are semantically relevant to a user's query and an effective retrieval of such results.
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