Slavko Žitnik is a Vice-dean for Education at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty for Computer and Information Science. He is also a president of Slovenian Society INFORMATIKA, president of Slovenian Association for Language Technologies, and member of supervisory board at AKOS. He is researching in the broader field of natural language processing, more precisely he is interested into semantic web, information retrieval, information extraction, data spaces and information systems. His active collaborations include researchers from University of Belgrade, University of South Florida and Harvard University. He was also awarded a silver sign of Slovenian Society INFORMATIKA for his contributions to development of informatics in Slovenia.
The presentation will spotlight current research in the field of natural language processing, conducted by the Laboratory for Data Technologies at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana with a focus on improving the status of the Slovenian language in the digital environment. It will present examples of how the results of these studies are transitioning into industry through the development of specialized solutions (e.g. speech technologies, semantic technologies, data spaces, …)
In his lecture, he will highlight current research in the field of natural language processing, with a focus on improving the position of the Slovenian language in the digital environment. This research involves the Laboratory for Data Technologies at the Faculty of Computer.