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Welcome to the
Department of Knowledge
Technologies
Prof. Nada Lavrač
Head
Department Head: Prof. Nada Lavrač
Department of Knowledge
Technologies – Research areas
• Staff: cca. 25 researchers and support staff + 10
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)
Department of Knowledge Technologies
Core
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Ecological modeling
AI in medicine
Healthcare
Agriculture
Enterprise management
Marketing and News
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
projects
EU projects (since 2004)
publications
Publications
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
application
Subgroup Discovery
Applications: Forest fire risk prediction
Text Mining and Semantic Web
OntoGen
Text Mining and Semantic Web
Contents Land
aplikacija
IST World Text and Web Mining support for
the EU Commission
Cooperation diagram
aplikacija
IST World Text and Web Mining support for
the EU Commission
Competence diagram
Decision Support
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Methods
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Software
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Applications:
– Qualitative Multi-Attribute Modeling
– Decision Analysis
– Data Warehouses and OLAP
– DEXi: Multi-attribute decision support
– over 50 applications for clients:
evaluation of companies, personnel
management, project evaluation,
land-use planning, agronomy,
medicine and health-care, sport
RISK
Personal
characteristics
Hormonal
circumstances
Menstrual
cycle
Fertility
Oral
contracept.
Quetel's
index
Other
Cancerog.
exposure
Fertility
duration
Age
Family
history
Physical
factors
Reg. and
stab. of men.
First delivery
Menopause
Chemical
factors
# deliveries
Demograph.
circumstance
software
Multi-attribute decision support:
Applications and DEXi Software
DEXi supports :
• what-if analysis
• stability analysis
• temporal tracing
• how explanation
• why explanation
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
partnerships
International cooperation
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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
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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
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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