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Department of Knowledge Technologies: Research Areas and Core Applications

Welcome to the Department of Knowledge Technologies, headed by Prof. Nada Lavrač. Our department focuses on machine learning/data mining, text mining and semantic web, knowledge management, decision support systems, human language technologies, logic and cognition. The core applications of our research include ecological modeling, AI in medicine, healthcare, agriculture, enterprise management, marketing, and news. We receive funding from national and EU sources and have collaborations with various international partners. Join us in advancing knowledge technologies!

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Department of Knowledge Technologies: Research Areas and Core Applications

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  1. Welcome to the Department of Knowledge Technologies Prof. Nada Lavrač Head Department Head: Prof. Nada Lavrač

  2. Department of Knowledge Technologies – Research areas • Staff: 25 researchers and support staff+ 15 students and external collaborators • Main research areas • Machine learning/Data mining (12) • Text mining and semantic web (10) • Knowledge management (4) • Decision support systems (2) • Human language technologies (3) • Logic and cognition (1)

  3. Department of Knowledge Technologies Core Applications • Ecological modeling • AI in medicine • Healthcare • Agriculture • Enterprise management • Marketing and News

  4. Funding • National funding (1/3): • Basic research project “Knowledge Technologies” • National R&D projects, client applications • EU funding (2/3): • 3 IP projects • 10 STREP projects • 2 Networks of Excellence • 2 Specific Support Actions, Coordination Actions • In 2007: 15 7FP EU project proposals

  5. projects EU projects (since 2004)

  6. publications Publications

  7. Data Mining / Machine Learning • Machine learning techniques • classification rule learning • subgroup discovery • relational data mining and ILP • Data mining applications • medicine, health care • ecology • knowledge management, virtual organizations • Data mining and decision support integration

  8. application Subgroup Discovery

  9. Applications: Forest fire risk prediction

  10. Text Mining and Semantic Web OntoGen

  11. Text Mining and Semantic WebContents Land

  12. aplikacija ISTWorldText and Web Mining support for the EU Commission Cooperation diagram

  13. aplikacija ISTWorldText and Web Mining support for the EU Commission Competence diagram

  14. Decision Support • Methods • Qualitative Multi-Attribute Modeling • Decision Analysis • Data Warehouses and OLAP • Software • DEXi: Multi-attribute decision support • Applications: • over 50 applications for clients: evaluation of companies, personnel management, project evaluation, land-use planning, agronomy, medicine and health-care, sport

  15. Multi-attribute decision support: Applications and DEXi Software software DEXi supports : • what-if analysis • stability analysis • temporal tracing • how explanation • why explanation

  16. Human Language Technologies • Main research areas: • Compilation of language • resources & development of • text annotation tools • Digital publishing of complex • texts • Machine translation; • Semantic Web; Machine • learning of language • Focus on Slovenian language • Applications • Annotated corpora • Scholarly Digital Editions of • Slovenian Literature • Japanese-Slovene Learners’ • Dictionary

  17. Industry: British Telecom France Telecom Siemens Business Solutions Empolis/Bertelsman Atos Origin Software AG UN FAO Dassault Aviation BRGM (Bureau de recherches géologiques et minières) SINTEF (Norway) iSOCO (Spain) Ontoprise (Germany) SIRMA (Bulgaria) Helsinki Institute of Technology FZI Karlsruhe CRF FIAT ... Academia: Uni Karlsruhe Uni Southampton Uni Sheffield Uni Innsbruck UCL Uni Roma Tech Uni Praga VU Amsterdam Open University Polytechnica Madrid INRIA INRA CNRS (France) CNR (Italy) Frauenhofer DFKI Saarbrucken ... Internationalcooperation partnerships

  18. partnerships International (non-EU) cooperation • Carnegie Mellon University, US • Link Analysis, Text-Mining, Market Analysis • Microsoft Research, UK • Text-Mining, Link Analysis • Stanford University & NASA Ames, US • Equation Discovery, Ecological Modeling • Cycorp Inc., US■ • Knowledge Management (ontologies) • Osaka University, Japan • Equation Discovery • Tokyo University, Japan • Human language technologies

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