Researcher · Ljubljana

Erik Novak.

AI research,
language & data.

I work on natural language processing — text-document and text-stream analysis, semi-automatic data exploration, and visualization of text data.

Senior Researcher at the Department for Artificial Intelligence, Jožef Stefan Institute. Data Scientist at Event Registry. Teaching assistant at the IPS PhD School.

Dr. Erik Novak — AI Researcher

Active Projects

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SLM4IE
Mar 2026 — Present
ARIS Postdoctoral

SLM4IE is an ARIS-funded postdoctoral research project focused on developing computationally efficient Small Language Models (SLMs) for zero-shot information extraction in European languages. The project addresses key limitations of current large language models — high computational costs for on-premise deployment, training data gaps for sensitive domains and low-resource languages, and inconsistent outputs in information extraction tasks.

PREPARE
Jun 2023 — Present
Horizon Europe

PREPARE is a Horizon Europe project aimed at improving the lives of people with chronic noncommunicable diseases by developing tools that enable patients and healthcare providers to select optimal therapy strategies. The project transforms rehabilitation through personalized care approaches, combining advances in clinical research, socio-behavioral science, data science, and AI methods to overcome challenges in patient stratification and outcome prediction.

Latest Publications

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Semantic Prompting for Large Language Models in Biomedical Named Entity Recognition
E. Calcina, E. Novak, D. Mladenić · Proceedings of the Slovenian KDD conference (Ljubljana) · 2025
TARNet for the Classification of Time Series with Missing Values: A Strong Baseline
K. Buza, E. Novak · Acta Univ. Sapientiae, Informatica · 2024