37.1215, FYI: GRAPHIA Webinar: Beyond SPARQL – Conversation-Based Access to Knowledge Graphs

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-37-1215. Wed Mar 25 2026. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 37.1215, FYI: GRAPHIA Webinar: Beyond SPARQL – Conversation-Based Access to Knowledge Graphs

Moderator: Steven Moran (linguist at linguistlist.org)
Managing Editor: Valeriia Vyshnevetska
Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Mara Baccaro, Daniel Swanson
Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Editor for this issue: Daniel Swanson <daniel at linguistlist.org>

================================================================


Date: 25-Mar-2026
From: Ursula Rabar [ursula.rabar at operas-eu.org]
Subject: GRAPHIA Webinar: Beyond SPARQL – Conversation-Based Access to Knowledge Graphs


We are pleased to invite you to an upcoming webinar organised within
the GRAPHIA project, taking place on 16 April at 2 PM CET.
Title: Beyond SPARQL: towards conversation-based access to knowledge
graphs in GRAPHIA
SPARQL has long been the standard interface to knowledge graphs but
its technical complexity limits access for many audiences. This
webinar introduces Quagga, an LLM-based agent developed within GRAPHIA
that enables conversational exploration of knowledge graphs using
natural language.
During the session, we will present how the agent works, including
methods to automatically generate metadata from any knowledge graph to
support text-to-SPARQL translation. We will also highlight the Quagga
benchmark, an ongoing collaborative crowdsourcing effort to build a
knowledge graph question-answering dataset focused on the social
sciences and humanities.
The webinar will be of particular interest to researchers, data
stewards, and anyone working with or curious about knowledge graphs in
the SSH domain.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/zv0Kr1JNQeyuiGAFc7z-6g#/registration
We hope you can join us and take part in the discussion.
Best regards,
Ursula
P.S. In case you missed our previous webinar focused on LLMs, you can
find the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg1-BF6donA

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Lexicography
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)




------------------------------------------------------------------------------

********************** LINGUIST List Support ***********************
Please consider donating to the Linguist List, a U.S. 501(c)(3) not for profit organization:

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=87C2AXTVC4PP8

LINGUIST List is supported by the following publishers:

Bloomsbury Publishing http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/

Cambridge University Press http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics

Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/

De Gruyter Brill https://www.degruyterbrill.com/?changeLang=en

Edinburgh University Press http://www.edinburghuniversitypress.com

European Language Resources Association (ELRA) http://www.elra.info

John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/

Language Science Press http://langsci-press.org

Lincom GmbH https://lincom-shop.eu/

MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/

Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/

Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT) http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Peter Lang AG http://www.peterlang.com

SIL International Publications http://www.sil.org/resources/publications


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-37-1215
----------------------------------------------------------