Romanian2SPARQL: A Grammatical Framework approach for querying Linked Data in Romanian

SPARQL queries have become the current state of the art for querying linked open data repositories. Given the difficulties to create such queries by non-expert users, interfaces that accept questions in natural language and convert them to SPARQL are one solution to this problem. We developed a translator for Romanian natural language to SPARQL. The system exploits the conceptual power of the Grammatical Framework library and the Haskell programming language. The system is validated in the Romanian cultural domain against various Linked Data Sources, including DBpedia.