METHOD AND TOOL FOR BROWSING SEMANTIC DATA AND CREATING QUERIES USING A DOMAIN/RANGE REPRESENTATION

A method in a computer system includes displaying a user interface screen to aid in generating search queries for a semantic database. The user may select two or more data classes from a displayed class hierarchy. Analysis of the semantic database may lead to generating and displaying one or more paths via class relationships between selected data classes. The user may interact with a displayed path of class relationships to provide input to the system, and from that input the system may automatically generate a search query.