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J. Stefan Institute
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Phone: (+386)(1) 4773-900, Fax: (+386)(1) 251 9385
E-mail:Dunja.Mladenic at ijs.si

Leading Atrificial Intelligence Laboratory at Jozef Stefan Institute and working on a number of research projects
mainly related to Machine Learning, Data and Text Mining, Semantic Technologies and their application on real-world problems.

Professor at Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate school teaching classes on Data Mining and Knwoledge Discovery, Text/Web and Multimedia Mining, Semantic Technologies

Biographical sketch, Brief CV (postscript)

Visiting researcher with Tom Mitchell at School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA in 1996-1997 and in 2000-2001.
General chair of ECML PKDD-2009, program co-chair of ECML PKDD-2007, tutorial chair of ECML PKDD-2005, awards chair of ECML PKDD-2003, poster chair of KDD-2009, Workshop and Tutorial chair for ICML-2003, Workshop chair for ICML-1999.

President of Slovenian Artificial Intelligence Society SLAIS, Advisory board member of ACM Slovenija.
Slovenian representative in EC Enwise STRATA ETAN Expert Group Promoting women scientists from the Central and Eastern European countries and the Baltic States to produce gender equality in science in the wider Europe.

Areas of research

• Semantic Technology
• Simperl, E., Thurlow, I., Warren, P., Dengler, F., Davies, J., Grobelnik, M., Mladenic, D., Gomez-Perez, J., Ruiz, C. (2010) Overcoming information overload in the enterprise : the active approach. IEEE internet computing, 14:6, 39-46.
• Grobelnik, M., Mladenic, D., Fortuna, B. (2009) Semantic technology for capturing communication inside an organisation. IEEE internet computing, 13:4, 59-66.
• Grobelnik, M., Brank, J., Mladenic, D., Novak, B., fortuna, B. (2006). Using DMoz for constructing ontology from data stream. 28th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces ITI-2006, IEEE Catalog:06EX1244, 439-444, SRCE Zagreb..
• Grobelnik, M., Mladenic, D. (2005) Automated knowledge discovery in advanced knowledge management. Journal of knowledge management, 9:132-149.
• Mladenic, D., Grobelnik, M. (2004). Mapping documents onto web page ontology. Web mining: from web to semantic web, LNAI:3209, 77-96, Springer.
• Text Mining
• Analysis of Large Text Datasets project;
• Yahoo Planet project (try our demo of document categorization!)
  
• Personal WebWatcher project (part of CMU Text Learning Group work)
• The World Wide Knowledge Base (Web->KB) project (part of CMU Text Learning Group work),
• The Corpus Builder project (part of CMU Text Learning Group work)
• PhD thesis project (see some photos from the defence!)
  
• Some Publications:
• Plisson, J., Lavrac, N., Mladenic, D., Erjavec, T. (2008) Ripple down rule learning for automated word lemmatisation. AI commun. 21:1, 15-26.
• Bhole, A., Fortuna, B., Grobelnik, M., Mladenic, D. (2007) Extracting named entities and relating them over time based on Wikipedia. Informatica 31:4, 463-468.
• Fortuna, B., Grobelnik, M., Mladenic, D. (2005)
• Grobelnik, M., Mladenic, D. (2004) Visualization of news articles. Informatica 28:4 375-380.
• Mladenic, D., Grobelnik, M. (2003) Feature selection on hierarchy of web documents. Decision support systems, 35:45-87.
• Grobelnik, M., Mladenic, D. (2002) Approaching Analysis of EU IST Projects Database, International Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems IIS-2002, Varazdin, Croatia.
• Mladenic, D. (1998) Turning Yahoo into an Automatic Web-Page Classifier (uncompressed) Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Aritficial Intelligence ECAI'98 (pp. 473-474). (abstract)
• Mladenic, D., Grobelnik, M. (1998) Feature selection for clasification based on text hierarchy (uncompressed) Working notes of Learning from Text and the Web, Conference on Automated Learning and Discovery CONALD-98. (abstract)
• Mladenic, D., (1998) Feature subset selection in text-learning (uncompressed) 10th European Conference on Machine Learning ECML98. (abstract)
• Mladenic, D., (1998) Machine Learning on non-homogeneous, distributed text data (compressed) PhD thesis, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 1998.
• Mladenic, D., (1996) Personal WebWatcher: Implementation and Design (compressed) Technical Report IJS-DP-7472.
• Data Mining/Machine Learning
• Data Mining on the market basket analysis abstract of the paper William F. Eddy, Dunja Mladenic, Scott Ziolko: "Exploratory Analysis of Retail Sales of Billions of Items".
• Data Mining in Biomedicine on the AHRQ Bioterrorism Intitiative project investigating methods for the real-time detection and
• Inductive Concept Learning
• Application of ML to Discrete Event Simulation
• Data Visualisation in ML
• Machine Learning in Medicine and Pharmacology
• LogoS
• Encyclopaedia typesetting based on TeX

With Marko Grobelnik organizing Slovenian KDD conference SiKDD-2011, paper submission deadline August 31, 2011.




Updated: January, 2011
Dunja Mladenic