Re: Welcome to the community group on Bridging GraphQL and RDF

Dear all,

my name is Christian Chiarcos, I work in computational linguistics, since
about 15 years especially on interoperability solutions for language
technology and language resources. Since 2010, my work in this direction
concentrates on the application of RDF and linked data technology &
resources, and I'm very much engaged in the community at the intersection
of linked data and NLP. In the last years, I have been developing
technologies to better integrate RDF technology with conventional NLP
workflows (e.g., https://github.com/acoli-repo/conll-rdf), I have begun to
promote using SPARQL Update for data transformation (graph rewriting) and
enrichment (federation) capabilities, and started to develop user- (i.e.,
linguist-) friendly interfaces to this technology. I'm very much interested
in the outcomes of this discussion, and to discuss necessary extensions
from a practical perspective: A GraphQL-based approach would probably
attract more interest from developers than the SPARQL-based approach we are
currently pursuing -- if we can make sure it satisfies our requirements,
that is.

Best,
Christian
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Prof. Dr. Christian Chiarcos
Applied Computational Linguistics
Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt a. M.
60054 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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