The Knowledge Tehnologies is

department of Jožef Stefan Institute.

We develop artificial intelligence methods and advanced
information technologies aimed at acquiring, storing and
managing knowledge to be used in the context of the
information- and knowledge-based society.

 

 

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Established areas of our work include machine learning (intelligent
data analysis, data mining, and knowledge discovery in databases)
and decision support, analysis of text and network data, language
technologies, computational linguistics and digital humanities,
as well as computational creativity and computational scientific discovery.

In addition to performing research in knowledge technologies
and methods, we also develop applications of such technologies
in ecology and agriculture; bioinformatics, drug design, medicine,
biomedicine, and ambient intelligence; economics, finance and
marketing; and finally space operations and Earth observation.

The Knowledge Tehnologies is department of Jožef Stefan Institute.

We develop artificial intelligence methods and advanced information technologies aimed at acquiring, storing and managing knowledge to be used in the context of the information- and knowledge-based society.

 

 

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Established areas of our work include machine learning (intelligent data analysis, data mining, and knowledge discovery in databases) and decision support, analysis of text and network data, language technologies, computational linguistics and digital humanities, as well as computational creativity and computational scientific discovery.

In addition to performing research in knowledge technologies and methods, we also develop applications of such technologies in ecology and agriculture; bioinformatics, drug design, medicine, biomedicine, and ambient intelligence; economics, finance and marketing; and finally space operations and Earth observation.

 Research areas

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MACHINE LEARNING

We are focusing on multi-target prediction, developing various methods addressing different machine learning tasks. We are also addressing the topic of representation learning, where we are developing data mining methods for the analysis of heterogeneous data, and using them in several application domains.

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DECISION SUPPORT AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Our long-term goal in the area of decision support is to develop methods and techniques of decision modeling, support them with software and integrate them with data mining systems. In the area of explainable artificial intelligence, we are developing and evaluating methods for variable importance estimation and feature ranking in several contexts.

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR SCIENCE

We are addressing the fields of semantic technologies to support the process of data analysis, computational scientific discovery to propose the use of probabilistic grammars to represent domain knowledge in equation discovery, and computational creativity to develop new methods for the creative generation of natural language text.

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LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES

We are working on machine learning methods for natural language processing and understanding. Our research is also on the field of text and network analytics is to combine methods of text mining, natural language processing, network analysis, and topic detection to reveal and highlight underlying characteristics in different domains. We are also leading CLARIN.SI, open access language resources and being active in the field of digital humanities.

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KNOWLEDGE TECHNOLOGIES FOR SOCIETY

This part of our work is concerning the use of knowledge technologies for solving practically relevant problems from many different areas, ranging from agriculture and industry, through medicine and healthcare, to media, education, industry, and space sector.

News/Events

Designing New Metaheuristics: Manual Versus Automatic Approaches

Designing New Metaheuristics: Manual Versus Automatic Approaches

Metaheuristics, such as evolutionary algorithms, ant colony optimization, and particle swarm optimization, are ...
Modeling Rac1 Dynamics: Insights into Cellular Movement and Internal Mechanics

Modeling Rac1 Dynamics: Insights into Cellular Movement and Internal Mechanics

Why do patterns emerge in nature, and what do they reveal about underlying processes? From the stripes on a zebra ...
ML Model Reliability From a Dataset Perspective

ML Model Reliability From a Dataset Perspective

Machine learning (ML) models depend on the data on which they are trained. Consequently, flaws in datasets can lead
Modelling the collapse of complex societies

Modelling the collapse of complex societies

Why do societies collapse? Some famous examples include Easter Island, the Maya, the Roman Empire, and the Chinese ...

Projects

EU Projects

National Projects

Other Projects

Publications

MONOGRAPHIES

Collection of all monographs and their basic data, written by members of the department. The books have also been published by the most prestigious publishers such as Springer.

ARTICLES

Here you will find a list of all published scientific articles and  published scientific conference contributions with links to their editions.

THESES

You are invited to read our doctoral dissertations, master’s and bachelor’s degrees.

Department in the media

Delo wrote about SmartMOVE project

Delo wrote about SmartMOVE project

Polona Demšar Mitrovič from the Ministry of Environment, Climate and Energy told that for at least ten years, they ...
Artificial intelligence requires an educated and critical user

Artificial intelligence requires an educated and critical user

The Head of the Department, Sašo Džeroski was interviewed for the largest Slovenian newspaper DELO. The interview ...
Slovenian press agency release an article about European Summer School on AI

Slovenian press agency release an article about European Summer School on AI

STA released an article about European Summer School on AI.  The Summer School was organized by JSI, by University ...
Nina Omejc and Sebastian Mežnar talked on National TV

Nina Omejc and Sebastian Mežnar talked on National TV

Nina Omejc and Sebastian Mežnar talked about ChatGPT on the National TV in the show called Infodrom. The show is ...
Nada Lavrač was interviewed by Radio Slovenia

Nada Lavrač was interviewed by Radio Slovenia

Nada Lavrač was interviewed by Nina Slaček from Radio Slovenia for show "Podobe znanja". You are invited to listen ...