Team

Ranka Stanković is an associate professor at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mining and Geology. She is teaching several courses related to Informatics and Geoinformatics, Semantic web, Programming for linguists, Information extraction and Knowledge representation. She also has international teaching experience in summer schools and in visiting programs. Her field of research is natural language engineering, semantic web, lexical resources, geoinformation management and deep learning. She is the Head of Computer Center of the Mining Department, Head of Chair for Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Chairman of Technical Committee A037 Terminology at the Institute for Standardization of Serbia and Vice-president of the Language Resources and Technologies Society (JERTEH). She published more than 130 papers in journals and proceedings of scientific conferences and participated in several international and national projects. She has developed several practical NLP systems and tools and participated in developing lexical and linguistic resources for Serbian.

Olivera Kitanović, research associate

Olivera Kitanović has a bachelor’s degree in Eng. of Information Systems, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Science, Department of Information systems and technologies and she has a PhD in Mining Engineering at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mining and Geology, related to Risk Ontology development extracted from narative text. Since 2002 she is employed in Computer center at the Faculty of Mining and Geology, in the period 2002-2018 as Administrator of system software and network communication resources, and since 2018 as Designer of information systems and software. She has expertise in knowledge management, big data, digital libraries, ontologies and information systems, and is currently included in NLP dataset management (digital libraries and terminological databases). She is leading the development and maintenance of the Faculty information system, web services and web site. Her current research includes the use of WE for word sense disambiguation and its application, especially for named entity linking with knowledge databases Wikidata and Geonames.

Mihailo Škorić, research associate

Mihailo Škorić, Intelligent systems PhD, was born in 1992 in Belgrade. In 2011 he enrolled at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, majoring in Language, literature and culture, at the Department of Library and Information science. He graduated in 2015 with an average grade of 8.65. In the same year he enrolled in master’s studies and completed them in 2016 with an average grade of 10.00. He enrolled in Interdisciplinary Doctoral Studies, module Intelligent Systems, at the University of Belgrade in October 2016. His dissertation, “Composite pseudogrammars based on parallel Serbian language models”, which focused on the application of deep learning based language models for evaluation of Serbian texts, was defended in 2023. Since May 2017 he has been working at the Faculty of Mining and Geology, University of Belgrade, in the field of Software and Systems Engineering in the computer center of the Mining Department. His research is heavily focused on AI supported language modeling.

Aleksandra Tomašević, research associate

Aleksandra Tomašević is a research associate at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mining and Geology, where she received her bachelor’s, and master’s degree. In 2018, she defended her doctoral dissertation “Model development for mining project documentation management” at UBRGF. Her research area is corpus linguistics and digital libraries, with specific focus on the development of a system for managing mining documentation using Human Language Technologies, which integrates textual, lexical, semantic, and terminological resources, enabling advanced document search and information extraction. She compiled a Serbian mining corpus and digitized several terminological dictionaries. She is a member of the team for development of a project documentation management system of EPS. She published 27 papers in journals and proceedings of scientific conferences and is a member of the Language Resources and Technologies Society (JERTEH) and the Serbian Mining Society.

Ljiljana Kolonja, research associate

Dr Ljiljana Kolonja is a research associate at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mining and Geology, were she has received PhD degree with dissertation “A business intelligence system for mine safety management”. Her research puts emphasis on the key advantages of the use of ontology as a technique for the presentation of knowledge and management of coded knowledge. Ljiljana Kolonja participated in several scientific-research projects related to the application of new information technologies in mining, as well as in the development of projects related to the design of information systems. Within the scientific-professional activities, Ljiljana Kolonja has published 36 works, and she is also a co-author of a monograph. Her research area is domain ontologies, digitalization, knowledge management, terminology, and business intelligence. She is a member of the Language Resources and Technologies Society (JERTEH) and the Serbian Mining Society.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3132-4943

Biljana Rujević, research associate