Team

Ranka Stanković, associate professor

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5123-6273

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7571-2729

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4811-8692

Mihailo Škorić, Master Professor of Language and Literature, 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 topic “Composite pseudogrammars based on parallel Serbian language models” is focused on the application of deep learning based language models for evaluation of Serbian texts. 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 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1583-7447

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

Biljana Rujević, research associate https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9103-3902

Miloš Utvić, assistant professor https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6909-9382

Miloš Utvić graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, where he successfully defended his MA thesis “Finite State Automata in the Regular Name Derivation”. In 2001 Miloš started to work at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology, Department of Library and Information Science. In 2014, he successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “The Construction of the Reference Corpus of Contemporary Serbian” at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology, and became an Assistant Professor at the same Department. Miloš is a member of the following associations: the Human Language Technology (HLT) Group at the University of Belgrade; the Corpus Committee of the Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU); JeRTeh Society for Language Resources and Technologies; editorial board member of Infotheca, Journal for Digital Humanities (DOI redactor). Miloš has two decades’ experience as a developer of language resources, tools, and models for Serbian. 

Milica Ikonić Nešić, research assistant https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0835-8889

Milica Ikonić Nešić is a teacher assistant at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology, Library and Information Science Department and she is enrolled in Interdisciplinary Doctoral Studies, module Intelligent Systems, at the University of Belgrade in October 2021. She graduated at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, modul Theoretical Mathematics and Applications with an average grade of 9.27. Master’s thesis complet in the 2020 at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, with an average grade of 10.0. In the period 2018-2020 she was a teacher assistant at the Department for Mathematical Analysis, the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade. Her fields of research are mathematics, NLP, computational linguistics, machine learning and deep learning applied to development of tools, resources and models for the Serbian language.