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SPARQL-LLM tops TEXT2SPARQL 2026 challenge with multilingual KGQA

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A new open-source system called SPARQL-LLM has achieved first place in the TEXT2SPARQL 2026 challenge, outperforming eight other approaches. This system excels at translating natural language questions into SPARQL queries for knowledge graphs, demonstrating multilingual capabilities in English, German, and Spanish. SPARQL-LLM achieved significantly higher accuracy, with one instance showing a 59% improvement over the next best system, and is now publicly available and deployed over decentralized bioinformatics knowledge graphs. AI

IMPACT This system's success in multilingual KGQA could accelerate the integration of knowledge graphs into broader AI applications.

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SPARQL-LLM tops TEXT2SPARQL 2026 challenge with multilingual KGQA

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Tarcisio Mendes de Farias ·

    SPARQL-LLM in the TEXT2SPARQL 2026 Challenge

    Querying distributed data represented as Knowledge Graphs (KGs) via SPARQL remains a difficult task, requiring fluency in query syntax, endpoint specifications, and schema details. Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) systems address this by automatically translating natural…

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