Semantic Query Language for Temporal Genealogical Trees

TL;DR

This paper introduces KISP, a domain-specific language based on English kinship terms, enabling natural and structured querying of genealogical trees with temporal and kinship features.

Contribution

It presents KISP, a novel LISP-like language that formalizes kinship and temporal data for improved genealogical data access and analysis.

Findings

KISP supports kinship term reduction and temporal expressions.

It enables natural navigation over genealogical trees.

The language enhances genealogical data querying capabilities.

Abstract

Computers play a crucial role in modern ancestry management, they are used to collect, store, analyze, sort and display genealogical data. However, current applications do not take into account the kinship structure of a natural language. In this paper we propose a new domain-specific language KISP which is based on a formalization of English kinship system, for accessing and querying traditional genealogical trees. KISP is a dynamically typed LISP-like programming language with a rich set of features, such as kinship term reduction and temporal information expression. Our solution provides a user with a coherent genealogical framework that allows for a natural navigation over any traditional family tree.