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Jozef Stefan Institute (founded 1949) is a research organization for pure and applied research in natural sciences and technology. It employs over 450 researchers. In view of its activities and status, the J. Stefan Institute plays the role of a national institute, complementing the role of the universities and bridging the gap between science and industry.

Department of Knowledge technologies (http://kt.ijs.si) consists of 20 researchers, the head of Department is Prof. Nada Lavrac. The department was founded in 1979, initially as Artificial Intelligence group. In the first ten years, the emphasis was on theoretical research that provided a solid background for later application projects. In 1982, the development and implementation of AI tools started and soon resulted in practical applications. By now, over 60 projects were completed in different domains including business and management, technical domains and medicine. The main research topics of Department of Knowledge Technologies are: machine learning, data mining, learning on text and the Web, information systems, medical informatics, relational data mining (inductive logic programming), automated knowledge synthesis, qualitative modeling, logic programming, decision support, knowledge based systems, heuristic programming, and knowledge acquisition.

Experience in EU programs: The research work has been performed within projects funded within European research projects, as well as by the Ministry of Research and Technology of Slovenia. The following projects were funded as European research projects: Sol-Eu-Net IST-1999-11495 (scientific coordination by JSI, 2000-2002), INCO Copernicus - Concede (1998-2000), INCO-Copernicus Information System for Employment Optimization on Internet (1997-99), COST-258 The Naturalness of Synthetic Speech (1997-99), ESPRIT IV Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computation (EvoNet) (1996-98), TELRI, Trans-European Language Infrastructure (1995-98), ESPRIT III and IV Network of Excellence in Computational Logic (1991-99) ESPRIT IV LTR Inductive Logic Programming II (1996-98), MULTEXT-EAST, Multilingual Texts and Corpora for Eastern and Central European Languages (1995-97), ESPRIT III and IV European Network of Excellence in Machine Learning (1992-97), ESPRIT III Basic Research Project Inductive Logic Programming (1992-95), PECO92 Inductive Logic Programming Pan-European Scientific Network (ILPNET) (coordinated by JSI, 1993-96), a Copernicus Network of Excellence in Inductive Logic Programming (ILPNet2) (coordinated by JSI, 1998-2001), COST-233 Prosody in Synthetic Speech (1989-95), ESPRIT II project ECOLES Development of Representation for Machine Learning from Imperfect Information (1989-92), COST 13 project AI and Pattern Recognition (1985-87).

Currently the department of Knowledge technologies is involved in several 6FP projects: Integrated project "Semantically enabled knowledge technologies (SEKT)", Integrated project " European Collaborative Networked Organisation Leadership Initiative (ECOLEAD), Network of Excellence on multimodal interfaces (PASCAL), ALVIS - Targeted project on next generation search engines.

Contact person:
Mr. Mitja Jermol
Jozef Stefan Institut
Jamova 39
1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija