I am senior researcher at the Department of Knowledge Technologies at the Jožef Stefan Institute, and the Laboratory for Cognitive Modeling at the Faculty for Information and Communication Science, University of Ljubljana. I mostly work in the areas of natural language processing, computational linguistics and computational social science.

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Active projects

MaCoCu: Massive collection and curation of monolingual and bilingual data: focus on under-resourced languages (EU CEF, 2021-2023)

IMSyPP: Innovative Monitoring Systems and Prevention Policies of Online Hate Speech (EU REC, 2020-2022)

ParlaMint: Towards Comparable Parliamentary Corpora (CLARIN ERIC, 2020-2021)

LiLaH: The linguistic landscape of hate speech on social media (Flemish-Slovene bilateral, 2019-2023)

News

• A BERTić model fine-tuned on the NER task has been added to HuggingFace
• The SotA transformer model for Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian - BERTić - has been released via HuggingFace
• I am co-organizing the VarDial2021 evaluation campaign with the task of Social Media Geolocation, which includes geo-locating tweets written in Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin or Serbian
• The SotA NLP technologies for South Slavic languages are available now as a Python package
• I am co-organizing the WMT2020 shared task on similar language translation, including Slovene, Croatian and Serbian for the first time to WMT
• I am co-organizing the VarDial2020 evaluation campaign with the task of Social Media Geolocation, which includes geo-locating tweets written in Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin or Serbian
• I helped setting up the CLASSLA knowledge centre for language technologies for South Slavic languages, part of CLARIN ERIC