A method and system for providing a generic query interface

A method for providing a generic query interface for industrial systems of customers, the method comprising:

• performing a query decomposition of a customer query input by an application query interface of a customer industrial system into query parts based on a stored query reformulation model;
• determining whether the decomposed query parts of the received customer query are available in a stored application semantic model;
• reformulating query parts that are not available in the stored application semantic model based on the query reformulation model;
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• generating a generic query applied to an application logic, such that a query result is provided, generating the generic query comprising performing a query recomposition of the query parts available on the stored application semantic model and the reformulated query parts.

A query processing system for providing a generic query interface for industrial systems of different customers, the query processing system comprising:

• an application query interface configured to input customer queries of customer industrial systems;
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• a query processing unit configured to:
• automatically perform a query decomposition of an input customer query into query parts based on a query reformulation model stored in a database of the query processing system,
• determine, for each of the decomposed query parts, whether the respective decomposed query part is available in an application semantic model stored in the database of the query processing system;
• automatically reformulate query parts not available in the application semantic model based on the query reformulation model;
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• generate a generic query applied to an application logic of the query processing system, such that a query result is output by the application query interface, the generation of the generic query comprising automatic performance of a query recomposition of the query parts available in the application semantic model and the reformulated semantic query parts.