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

Marko Debeljak and Martin Žnidaršič represented Slovenian Competence Center for Artificial Intelligence (KCUI) at AGRA 2026 Trade Fare

Marko Debeljak and Martin Žnidaršič represented Slovenian Competence Center for Artificial Intelligence (KCUI) at AGRA 2026 Trade Fare

At the roundtable titled: Umetna inteligenca v MSP: praktični okviri za premišljeno uvedbo (Artificial Intelligence
From idea to implementation in Slovenian companies

From idea to implementation in Slovenian companies

A member of our department, Martin Žnidaršič, will lead and participate in a round table titled "𝗢𝗱 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗷𝗲 𝗱𝗼 ...
TRUSTroke Consortium 3rd General Assembly: Department Members Join Key Strategic and Technical Sessions in Ljubljana

TRUSTroke Consortium 3rd General Assembly: Department Members Join Key Strategic and Technical Sessions in Ljubljana

The TRUSTroke consortium recently gathered in Ljubljana for its 3rd General Assembly Meeting, bringing together ...
Rapid evidence mapping of soil fauna responses to agricultural management assisted by large language models

Rapid evidence mapping of soil fauna responses to agricultural management assisted by large language models

A new study, Rapid evidence mapping of soil fauna responses to agricultural management assisted by large language ...
FuDoBa has been published in the Machine Learning Journal by Springer

FuDoBa has been published in the Machine Learning Journal by Springer

📄 "FuDoBa: Fusing Document and Knowledge Graph Based Representations with Bayesian Optimisation" with Boshko ...
Sebastian Mežnar presented at the WCCI

Sebastian Mežnar presented at the WCCI

Member of our department, Sebastian Mežnar presented at the WCCI conference as part of the Workshop on Symbolic ...
Maryam Gholami Shiri presented at IEEE CEC 2026

Maryam Gholami Shiri presented at IEEE CEC 2026

Research from the AutoLearn-SI team was presented at IEEE CEC 2026 by Maryam Gholami Shiri (member of our ...
SEEDS communication kit webinar

SEEDS communication kit webinar

I’m pleased to be speaking at the upcoming online SEEDS webinar “Beyond the Boiler : Integrated Pathways for ...

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

Slovene Newspaper Finance posted about AIDA in AgroBiznis section

Slovene Newspaper Finance posted about AIDA in AgroBiznis section

The work of the EcoEnvAI research group from the Department of Knowledge Technologies at the Jožef Stefan Institute
Sašo Džeroski had an interview with DELO

Sašo Džeroski had an interview with DELO

The use of artificial intelligence in science can bring many positive changes in the wider society. Science and ...
Nikola and Sebastian were on the show Dobro Jutro

Nikola and Sebastian were on the show Dobro Jutro

Members of out department, Nikola Marić and Sebastian Mežnar were on the Dilema segment of the show Dobro Jutro. ...
Sašo Džeroski interview with Nedeljski dnevnik

Sašo Džeroski interview with Nedeljski dnevnik

Sašo Džeroski was interviewed about artificial intelligence by Nedeljski dnenvik on March 27. Artificial ...
Three members of our department were on the show Odmevi

Three members of our department were on the show Odmevi

On 11th February 2025, three members of our department were on the show Odmevi. There, they presented the work of ...