Document Structure & Metadata Competency Questions

Competency questions for querying document structure, discourse elements, authorship, publication metadata, and citations in scholarly works.

CQ-DOC-01: What paragraphs does a given scholarly work contain?

Intent

Retrieve all structural paragraphs that are part of a scholarly document.

Natural Language Question

What paragraphs does this scholarly work contain?

SPARQL Query


PREFIX doco: 
PREFIX idea: 
PREFIX po:   

SELECT ?sec ?para
WHERE {
  idea:work-semsur-2018 po:contains ?sec .
  ?sec po:contains ?para .
}

Expected Result


Evaluation | The results indicates that ...
Evaluation | We evaluated the SemSur ontology ...

CQ-DOC-02: What discourse elements appear in this document?

Intent

Identify the discourse roles instantiated within a scholarly document.

Natural Language Question

What discourse elements (Introduction, Methods, Results, etc.) appear in this document?

SPARQL Query


PREFIX rdf:  
PREFIX rdfs: 
PREFIX po:   
PREFIX deo:  
PREFIX idea: 

SELECT ?sec ?secType
WHERE {
  idea:work-semsur-2018 po:contains ?sec .
  ?sec rdf:type deo:DiscourseElement ;
       rdf:type ?secType .
  ?secType rdfs:subClassOf* deo:DiscourseElement .
}

Expected Result


Evaluation of SemSur ontology | deo:Evaluation

CQ-DOC-03: Which sentences belong to a discourse element?

Intent

Retrieve all sentences that are contained within a specific discourse section.

Natural Language Question

Which sentences belong to the Methods discourse element?

SPARQL Query


PREFIX rdf:  
PREFIX po:   
PREFIX deo:  
PREFIX idea: 

SELECT ?sec ?para
WHERE {
  idea:work-semsur-2018 po:contains ?sec .
  ?sec rdf:type deo:DiscourseElement ;
       po:contains ?para .
}

Expected Result


Evaluation | The results indicates that ...
Evaluation | We evaluated the SemSur ontology ...

CQ-DOC-04: Who are the authors of this work?

Intent

Retrieve the agents responsible for authoring a scholarly document.

Natural Language Question

Who are the authors of this work?

SPARQL Query


PREFIX dc:   
PREFIX foaf: 
PREFIX idea: 

SELECT ?name
WHERE {
  idea:work-semsur-2018 dc:creator ?per .
  ?per foaf:name ?name .
}

Expected Result


Sören Auer
Sadia Fathalla
Sahar Vahdati

CQ-DOC-05: Where and when was this work published?

Intent

Retrieve the publication venue and publication date of a scholarly document.

Natural Language Question

Where and when was this work published?

SPARQL Query


PREFIX dc:   
PREFIX idea: 

SELECT ?venue ?date
WHERE {
  idea:work-semsur-2018 dc:publisher ?venue .
  ?venue dc:date ?date .
}

Expected Result


Procedia Computer Science | "2018"

CQ-DOC-06: What type of scholarly work is this?

Intent

Identify the scholarly genre or document type of a work.

Natural Language Question

What type of scholarly work is this (research paper, review, position paper)?

SPARQL Query


PREFIX rdf:   
PREFIX rdfs:  
PREFIX fabio: 
PREFIX idea:  

SELECT ?paperType
WHERE {
  idea:work-semsur-2018 rdf:type ?paperType .
  ?paperType rdfs:subClassOf* fabio:Work .
}

Expected Result


Research Paper

CQ-DOC-07: What topics or disciplines does this work belong to?

Intent

Retrieve the topical or disciplinary classifications associated with a scholarly document.

Natural Language Question

What topics or disciplines does this work belong to?

SPARQL Query


PREFIX fabio: 
PREFIX idea:  

SELECT ?key
WHERE {
  idea:work-semsur-2018 fabio:isDisciplineOf ?key .
}

Expected Result


Scholarly Communication
Knowledge Graph
Semantic Publishing

CQ-DOC-08: What other works does this paper cite?

Intent

Retrieve the scholarly works referenced by a given document.

Natural Language Question

What other works does this paper cite?