Christian Chiarcos
Co-Founder at University of Augsburg
Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolChristian Chiarcos is a computational linguist and AI entrepreneur with 14+ years of experience bridging academic research and industry applications in NLP, semantic technologies, and linguistic data science. As Co-Founder of Comprensio Knowledge Technologies and Professor of Applied Computational Linguistics, he builds open-source stacks that combine machine learning with knowledge graphs to make language resources interoperable and reusable. His labs produced notable breakthroughs—from the largest machine-readable bilingual dictionary collection and the first MT for Sumerian cuneiform to a machine-generated science book—demonstrating a knack for turning obscure language problems into practical systems. Funded by major German and European agencies and active in W3C community groups, he shapes community standards for language technology on the web. He pairs deep scholarly rigor (PhD in Computational Linguistics) with product-minded engineering, and often focuses on discourse-level meaning and cross-resource interoperability that many NLP projects overlook.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computational Linguistics, PhD, Computational Linguistics at University of Potsdam, GermanyMA, Linguistics, MA, Linguistics at Technische Universität Berlin
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Github Skills (124)
interoperability10
python10
conll10
ontology10
computational-linguistics10
ontologies10
audio10
nlp10
translation10
dictionary10
natural-language-processing10
rdf10
pytorch10
open-source10
parsing10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ontolex/morph
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
The Morphology Module for the OntoLex Model
Contributions:67 commits, 2 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year
obofoundrymorphology
acoli-repo/rdf4discourse
Nov 2017 - Jun 2022
Contributions:216 commits, 105 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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