Jozef Stefan Institute
Inštitut “Jožef Stefan”
The Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI) is the leading research institution for natural sciences in Slovenia having over 900 researchers within 25 departments working in the areas of computer science, physics, and chemistry and biology. The main departments involved in ELEXIS and thus offering support to visiting researchers are the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, one of the largest European research groups working in the areas of machine learning, data mining, language technologies, semantic technologies and sensor networks, the Centre for Knowledge Transfer in Information Technologies, and the Department of Knowledge Technologies which is a recognised centre of research on language technologies, computational linguistics, corpus linguistic, and digital humanities.
Simon Krek
Simon Krek (PhD) is a researcher and project manager in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He received a PhD in linguistics from the University of Ljubljana. The topic of his PhD was automatic extraction of lexicographic data from corpora. His main areas of research are lexicography and lexicogrammar, corpus linguistics, natural language processing, language technology infrastructure and computer-aided language learning and teaching. He is one of the representatives in the CLARIN.SI consortium (http://www.clarin.si) from JSI. He is a member of EURALEX board and the chair of the Innovative e-dictionaries Working Group in European Network of e-Lexicography COST action.
Personal page: https://www.simonkrek.si/en
