Oracle International Corporation

Jinha Kim

Hassan Chafi

Sungpack Hong

Oskar Van Rest

Xuming Meng

Matthias Brantner

Rhicheek Patra

Davide Bartolini

Damien Hilloulin

Alberto Parravicini

Techniques described herein allow for accurate translation of natural language (NL) queries to declarative language. A syntactic dependency parsing tree is generated for an NL query, which is used to map tokens in the query to logical data model concepts. Relationship-type mappings are completed based on relationship constraints. Final mappings are identified for any relationship tokens that are associated with multiple candidate mappings by identifying which candidate mappings have the lowest cost metrics. An NL query-specific query graph is generated based on the mapping data for the NL query and the logical data model. The query graph represents an NL query-specific version of the logical data model where grammatical dependencies between NL query words are translated to the query graph. A query graph is annotated with information, from the mapping data, that is not represented paths in the query graph. The query graph is used generate a computer-executable translation of the NL query.

Natural language query translation based on query graphs

Techniques herein accelerate graph querying by caching neighbor vertices (NVs) of super-node vertices. In an embodiment, a computer receives a graph query (GQ) to extract result paths from a graph in a database. The GQ has a sequence of query vertices (QVs) and a sequence of query edges (QEs). The computer successively traverses each QE and QV to detect paths of the graph that match the GQ. Traversing each QE and QV entails retrieving NVs of a current graph vertex (CGV) of a current traversal path. If the CGV is a key in a cache whose keys are graph vertices having an excessive degree, then the computer retrieves NVs from the cache. Otherwise, the computer retrieves NVs from the database. If the degree is excessive, and the CGV is not a key in the cache, then the computer stores, into the cache, the CGV as a key for the NVs.

Fast graph query engine optimized for typical real-world graph instances whose small portion of vertices have extremely large degree

Techniques are described herein for learning property graph representations edge-by-edge. In an embodiment, an input graph is received. The input graph comprises a plurality of vertices and a plurality of edges. Each vertex of the plurality of vertices is associated with vertex properties of the respective vertex. A vertex-to-property mapping is generated for each vertex of the plurality of vertices. The mapping maps each vertex to a vertex-property signature of a plurality of vertex-property signatures. A plurality of edge words is generated. Each edge word corresponds to one or more edges that each begin at a first vertex having a particular vertex-property signature of the plurality of vertex property signatures and end at a second vertex having a particular vertex-property signature of the plurality of vertex property signatures. A plurality of sentences is generated. Each sentence comprises edge words directly connected along a path of a plurality of paths in the input graph. Using the plurality of sentences and the plurality of edge words, a document vectorization model is used to generate machine learning vectors that represent the input graph.

Learning property graph representations edge-by-edge

Techniques herein optimize subgraph pattern matching. A computer receives a graph vertex array and a graph edge array. Each vertex and each edge has labels. The computer stores an array of index entries and an array of edge label sets. Each index entry corresponds to a respective vertex originating an edge and associates an offset of the edge with an offset of the respective vertex. Each edge label set contains labels of a respective edge. The computer selects a candidate subset of edges originating at a current vertex. The edge labels of each candidate edge of the candidate subset include a same particular query edge labels. The computer selects the candidate subset based on the index array and afterwards selects a result subset of vertices from among the terminating vertices of the candidate edges. The labels of each vertex of the result subset include a same particular query vertex labels.

Efficient method for subgraph pattern matching

Techniques herein are for fast processing of path-finding queries in large graph databases. A computer system receives a graph search request to find a set of result paths between one or more source vertices of a graph and one or more target vertices of the graph. The graph comprises vertices connected by edges. During a first pass, the computer system performs one or more breadth-first searches to identify a subset of edges of the graph. The one or more breadth-first searches originate at the one or more source vertices. After the first pass and during a second pass, the computer system performs one or more depth-first searches to identify the set of result paths. The one or more depth-first searches originate at the one or more target vertices. The one or more depth-first searches traverse at most the subset of edges of the graph.

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Jinha Kim