Edgard Marx is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Leipzig. He worked for six years in one of the largest South America research laboratories, Tecgraf, focusing mostly on designing and developing Geographic Information Systems and Urban mass transit monitoring systems. Since 2013 Edgard is been working on Natural Language Processing (NLP) with focusing on Question Answering and Semantic Search systems. He is active in the NLP academic community participating as a reviewer in conferences such as QALD (Open Challenge on Question Answering over Linked Data), and publishing several peer-reviewed publications in the area.
