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NEWS, EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

LangNet @ Geek Gathering 2024

Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić gave an invited talk "Under Construction: From Text to Insight with Relation Extraction in Climate Change Reserach", at The Geek Gathering 2024, Osijek, 3-4.10.2024



LangNet @ ENTRENOVA 2024

Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić gave a plenary talk "Where are we Heading with Generative Artificial Intelligence? Insights into Technology, Challenges, and Reshaping of the Labor Market", at ENTRENOVA 2024, ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion Conference, Dubrovnik, 5-7.9.2024.



LangNet @ Data Science Week

Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić gave a talk "Revealing Key Concepts and Relations in Climate Change" and chaired the session "Datasests and Analytics" at Data Science Week, at 2nd World Conference on Data Science and Statistics, Amsterdam 19.6.2024.



Andrija Poleksić @ ESWC 2024

Andrija Poleksić presented the research paper " Towards Dataset for Extracting Relations in the Climate-Change Domain" at 3rd Internation Workshop on Knowledge Graph Generation from Text (TEXT2KG) at Extended Semantic Web ESWC 2024 Conference in Hersonissos, Crete, Grece 26-30. May. 2024.



Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić @ DSC Adria

Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić moderated round table "Unlocking Business Opportunities with Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs)" at Data Science Adria Conference, Zagreb, 23.05.2024. program


LangNet @ CASE 2024

Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić gave a talk "Generative artificial intelligence: technology, challenges and economic benefits" and participated in the panel "Will AI replace developers?" while PhD student Vlatka Davidović presented the results on "Seq-to-Seq Neural Model for Croatian Abstractive Summarization", at CASE 2024 conference in Zagreb 26.2.2024.



LangNet @ Multi3gen COST Training School - Malta

PhD student Andrija Poleksić participated in Multi3genration COST Training School: Representation mediated multimodality- grounded representation, reasoning, and learning for interactive interpretation where he presented his research "Automatic knowledge graph construction from scientific publications", University of Malta, programme Valleta, 30.1.2024. - 2.2.2024.



FIDIT @ Data Science Conference 23 and Data Science Summit 23, Belgrade

At the DSC Europe 23 Andrija Poleksić held technical tutorial on "Relation Extraction From Texts" and Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić modarated the panel on "LLM Use In Business Transformation". She also participated in the Data Science Summit at Data Science Conference Europe 23 Belgrade, 20-24 November 2023.


LangNet @ INFCON23 PhD Conference, Rijeka

PhD student Andrija Poleksić gave the talk "Extraction of relations for automatic knowledge graph construction" and Vlatka Davidović presented her work on "Report on Sequence-to-Sequence Neural Model for Croatian Abstractive Summarization" at 2nd INFCON23 Rijeka, Croatia, Nevember 11-12, 2023.



LangNet @ International PhD Conference, Ljubljana - Graz - Rijeka

PhD student Andrija Poleksić gave the talk "Relation extraction for knowledge graph construction on scientific corpora " at 7th International PhD Conference, Ljubljana - Graz - Rijeka, programme Rijeka, Croatia, October 5-6, 2023.



LangNet @ Semantics 2023

Student Andrija Poleksić presented the research paper "Effects of Pretraining Corpora on Scientific Relation Extraction using BERT and SciBERT" at 2nd NLP4KGC: Natural Language Processing for Knowledge Graph Construction Workshop, Semantics 2023 Conference in Leipzig, 20-22. September. 2023.



LangNet @ CECIS

PhD student Vlatka Davidović presented the research paper "Towards Sequence-to-Sequence Neural Model for Croatian Abstractive Summarization" at 34th Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems CECIIS Conference in Dubrovnik, September 22nd 2023.



LangNet @ Multi3Generation

Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić participated at MC meeting of CA18231 - Multi3Generation: Multi-task, Multilingual, Multi-modal Language Generation (Multi3Generation) , project, Warsaw, 20-21.9.2023.



LangNet @ MIPRO

Students Andrija Poleksić and Armin Krivićić presented the research papers "Sentiment of the Tweets on Russo-Ukrainian War: the Social Network Analysis" and "Analyzing Sentiment of Reddit Posts for the Russia-Ukraine War" at 46. IEEE MIPRO Conference in Opatija, May 25th and 26th 2023.



Ljupčo Todorovski @ DSC Adria

Langnet memeber Ljupčo Todorovski gave an keynot talk "Data Science for Computational Scientific Discovery" at Data Science Adria Conference in Rijeka. Faculty of Informatics and Digital Technologies, was coorganizer of the event, and prof. Todorovski is a member of our PHD doctoral study council. 19.05.2023. program


Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić @ DSC Adria

Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić participated in round table Who & how will educate future AI experts & Data Scientist at Data Science Adria Conference, Zagreb, 17.05.2023. program


Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić @ AIRI, UNIRI

Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić participated in round table on Artificial Intelligence organized by AIRI Center, Rijeka 18.5.2023.


Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić @ Moise

Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić participated in Science in Media Communication Workshop at Moise Palace in Cres. The workshop was organized by PhD School, University of Rijeka Foundation and Bernays, Cres 20-23.5.2023.


Slobodan Beliga & Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić @ University of Rijeka












LangNet members Slobodan Beliga and Sanda Rartinčić-Ipšić received the award, for the excellence in teaching by University of Rijeka, 15th May 2023, Rijeka. CONGRATULATIONS!

Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić @ MESOC Final Conference, Paris

Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić gave the talk at MESOC Final Conference: Exploring and assessing the societal impacts of culture on MESOC Toolkit and Document Repository. MESOC's research has sought to develop innovative methodologies to capture and measure the wider societal value of culture that includes, but is not limited to its economic impact. It also encompasses personal health and well-being, urban renovation and regeneration and people's engagement and participation. MESOC provides improved cultural value measurements, including by the use of AI, and case studies in support of effective and inclusive policies and institutional frameworks which offer a convincing vision for citizens to face current cultural and societal transformations. Furthermore, the project uses hundreds of academic and grey literature documents, delved into dozens of city case studies, and interviewed scores of experts and stakeholders. We have also invested in the technological development needed to exploit the knowledge and resources, building toolkits for a new vision to develop policies oriented to the cultural and creative sector. The program. Paris, 9-10.3.2023.


Lang Net @ SemTECH Lab Research Class

PhD students Anto Čabraja and Vlatka Davidović participated with a talk at SemTech Research Class- The programm is availovle at link, 16.12.2022.

Slobodan Beliga @ University of Rijeka Foundation












LangNet member Slobodan Beliga received the award, for the excellence in scence as young scientist by University of Rijeka Foundation, 25th November 2022, Rijeka. CONGRATULATIONS!

Marko Robnik Šikonja @ Research Class

Professor Marko Robnik Šikonja, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana held a Research Class talk "Cross-lingual transfer with large language models" Cross-lingual transfer with large language models2, 24th November 2022.


Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić @ Data Science Conference and Data Science Summit, Belgrade

Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić participated in the organization of the Data Science Summit at Data Science Conference, DSC Europe 22 where She moderated the round table discussion on collaboiration between industry and academia, 16th November 2022. At the DSC Europe 22 she gave invited talk on "BI Toolkit Powered by Natural Language Processing" in the Data Visualisation Track, 17th Novembre 2022.


Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić @ Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Belgrade

Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić held an invited lecture "Natural Language Processing: the Case of Integration in Business Intelligence" at Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, 16.11.2022.

PhD students @ INFCON

LangNet PhD students Karlo Babić, Anto Čabraja, Marko Pribisalić, Vlatka Davidović and Dino Aljević presented current research resuts on INFCON22 Conference , FICIT, 11.-12.11.2022.



LangNet @ Multi3Generation

Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić participated at MC meeting of CA18231 - Multi3Generation: Multi-task, Multilingual, Multi-modal Language Generation (Multi3Generation) , project, Venice, 19.9.2022.



Petar Kristijan Bogović @ MIPRO 2022 conference

Petar Kristijan Bogović presented the paper "The NLP Powered BI Toolkit: The Case of MESOC" co-authored with Dino Aljević, Božidar Kovačić and Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić IEEE MIPRO 2022 Conference in DE-DS Section (MIPRO-DE-DS 2022) , 27.05.2022.


Among the first six @ YERUN Open Science Awards

Wa are shotlisted to the best 6 Open Science practices in the YERUN Open Science Awards in the researcher category. For this pilot call, 30 applications are recieved in total: 24 for the researchers category and 6 for the staff category. Following the Phase 1 of evaluation, out of these 30 applications, 8 have been shortlisted (6 for the researchers category and 2 for the staff category). 14.2.2022. Link








LangNet awarded @ UNIRI

LangNet project recieved the UNIRI Excellence Awards in Science as the highely ranked project in social sciences for results in 2021. Congratulations to all current and former LangNet members. 1.2.2022. Link








Interview @ Novi List

Ana Meštrović, Slobodan Beliga, Mihaela Matešeć and Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić gave the interview to Novi List, 12.12.2021.






Contributions @ Čitata

Ana Meštrović, Mihaela Matešeć and Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić collaborated on the mobile application ČITATA with Croatian syllabification algorithm. This application was developed as part of the reading aid at Study of Logopedy at the University of Rijeka. Čitata, 9.12.2021.






Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić @ ITIS2021 conference

Sanda Martinčić Ipšić gave the invited talk "Multidimensional Knowledge Network: Modelling of Factual, Conceptual, Procedural, and Metacognitive Knowledge" at 12th International Conference on Information Technologies and Information Society, 5.11.2021. ITIS2021


Petar Kristijan Bogović @ MIPRO 2021 conference

Petar Kristijan Bogović presented the paper "Topic Modelling of Croatian News During COVID-19 Pandemic" co-authored with Ana Meštović, Slobodan Beliga andSanda Martinčić-Ipšić IEEE MIPRO 2021 Conference in CIS Section (MIPRO-CIS 2021) , 30.09.2021.


Dino Aljević @ INISTA 2021 conference

Dino Aljević presented the paper "Extractive Text Summarization Based on Selectivity Ranking" co-authored with Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić and Ljupčo Todorovski at IEEE International Conference on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications (INISTA'21) , 27.8.2021.


LangNet @ Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity 2021

Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić and Ana Meštović presented the current research results and projects of LangNet group included in the Laboratory for Natural Speech and Language Processing at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity, University of Rijeka, 31st March 2021. AIRI Centre
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Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić @ Artificial Intelligence for Policy Making 2021

Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić gave an invited talk „Natural Language Processing 4 for Policy Texts Analytics“ at “Artificial Intelligence for Policy Making” workshop at Social & Creative project funded by the Interreg MED programme. Workshop on exploring trends of Artificial Intelligence at the service of policy making was held online on 22nd of March 2021. Link Social & Creative project
Workshop video


LangNet @ Multi3Generation

Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić presentet current work in LangNet group at WG2 meeting of the CA18231 - Multi3Generation: Multi-task, Multilingual, Multi-modal Language Generation (Multi3Generation) , Online, 10.2.2021.



LangNet awarded @ UNIRI

LangNet project recieved the UNIRI Excellence Awards in Science as the highely ranked project in social sciences for results in 2020. Congratulations to all current and former LangNet members. 11.12.2020. Link








Slobodan Beliga @ FOI

On Wednesday, December 9, 2020, starting at 10:00 am, as part of the teaching of the course Search Methods and Classification of Information, the invited lecture will be given by Dr. sc. Slobodan Beliga on the topic "Keyword extraction in computer analysis of natural language" Link


Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić @ Data Science Conference 2020

Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić talked about the prospects for studying Data Science at the University of Rijeka and collaboration with the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity at Data Science Conference 2020 Link 19.11.2020.


Tajana Ban Kirigin @ LNCS Springer

LangNet team member Tajan Ban Kirigin co-editored the book "Logic, Language, and Security" in LNCS Springer. This LNCS Festschrift was published in honour of Andre Scedrov on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The 11 technical papers and 3 short papers included in this volume show the many transformative discoveries made by Andre Scedrov in the areas of linear logic and structural proof theory; formal reasoning for networked systems; and foundations of information security emphasizing cryptographic protocols. These papers are authored by researchers around the world, including North America, Russia, Europe, and Japan, that have been directly or indirectly impacted by Andre Scedrov. Logic, Language, and Security


LangNet published @ Information

Members of LangNet team Karlo Babić, Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić and Ana Meštrović published the paper " Survey of Neural Text Representation Models" in Information journal, October 2020.





Ana Meštrović @ HRZZ IP-CORONA-2020-04

Croatian Science Foundation granted financing of "Multilayer Framework for the Information Spreading Characterization in Social Media during the COVID-19 Crisis (InfoCoV)" project lead by Ana Meštrović. InfoCoV project is renked in the top 11 projects that will be financed in the next 18 months.2.7.2020. Results


Ana Meštrović @ ICT-20 COVID-19 - Online conference

Ana Meštrović presented the project proposal "Multilayer Framework for the Information Spreading Characterization in Social Media during the COVID-19 Crisis" at the ICT-20 @ COVID-19 - Online conference. 27.5.2020. LINK


Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić @ Prometej

Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić talked about LangNet research and Data Science in Prometej science show on Croatian National TV, 26.3.2020.


Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić @ WiDS 2020

Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić participated in the round table on past, present and future of data science at Women in Data Science Conference 2020 in Zagreb from 04-05.03.2020.


Ana Meštrović @ HRT

Ana Meštrović participated in the HTV show "Kod nas doma". The topic was dedicated to the collaboration between researchers and OmoLab in the development of the mobile application for dyslexia.


LangNet @ Multi3Generation COST Project 2020

Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić participated at COST Multi3Generation MC and WG Meeting at University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 21-23.01.2020.


LangNet team @ UniRi

Scientists from the University of Rijeka and members of the Langnet team Ana Meštrovic, and sanda Martinčić-Ipšić, and Miahela Matešić (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences) received the University of Rijeka Foundation Award for their achievements and transfer of knowledge from academia to industry (news paper). Congratulations!


Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić @ Data Science Conference 5.0 and Data Science Summit

Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić participated in the organization of the Data Science Summit at Data Science Conference 5.0 Change the World Through Data) in Belgrade from 19-21.11.2019. She moderated discussion between industry and academia in two round tables with topics in Natural Langauge Processing and Graph Analytics.


LangNet @ University of Rijeka Foundation












LangNet members A. Meštrović, M Matešić and S. Martinčić-Ipšić received "1st Technology Transfer" award, by University of Rijeka Foundation and company Alarm automatika, for the SyllAssist work on the algorithm for Croatian syllables segmentation used in OmoLab's application OmoReader for reading support in dyslexia, 15 November 2019, Rijeka.

Prof. Ljupčo Todorovski @ National TV in Slovenia

LangNet member, prof. Ljupčo Todorovski on the perspectives of Artificial Intelligence on Slovene National TV (video) 07.11.2019.


Slobodan Beliga PhD defence @ University of Rijeka

Slobodan Beliga, member of LangNet group defended PhD thesis "Keyword Extraction Based on Structural Properties of Language Complex Networks" at Department of Informatics, University of Rijeka. Congratulations!


LangNet @ COSTNET2019

Karlo Babić and Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić participated at COST COSTNET19 Conference with poster "The Representation of Text in a Multilayer Complex Network for Deep Learning" in Bilbao, Spain, October 2019.


LangNet @ Multi3Generation

Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić participated at kick-off meeting of the CA18231 - Multi3Generation: Multi-task, Multilingual, Multi-modal Language Generation (Multi3Generation) COST project in Bruxelles, Belgium, 9.9.2019.



Marko Pribisalić @ 32nd Bled eConference

Marko Pribisalić participated at 32nd Bled eConference Humanizing Technology for a Sustainable Society whwer he presented the paper Selecting a Business Intelligence Solution that is Fit for Business Requirements, coathored with Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić and Igor Jugo. Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić is the member of organizing committee and a chair of Data Science / Big Data track.


LangNet @ SemText Kick-off Meeting

SemText project as the spinof form formare LangNet project, had a kick-off meeting on June 11th 2019. SemText we wish you a lot of scucess!!






LangNet @ Lider

Lider published the article on speech and language technologies including the LangNet research plans pdf, June 2019.






LangNet kick off meeting @ Uniri

The kick-off meeting of the project "Keyword Extraction and Summarization Based on Language Networks - LangNet" was on the 29th of March 2019 at the Department of informatics. The team members discussed the working plans and showed the ongoing progress of the current research activities.



LangNet @ Uniri

LangNet group recieved University of Rijeka grant for research in "Extraction and Summarization Based on Language Networks". The goal of this research is to develop new methods for keyword extraction and extractive summarization enabled by the formalisms of complex networks and neural networks - project abstract.


Karlo Babić @ COSTNET School in Munich

Karlo Babić participated at Early Career Training Event of COSTNET project , the Department of Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, 11-13 February 2019. All talks were in the networks domain, some were from the statistics perspective, others from physics, social, and computer science perspective. Two main speakers were Tiago de Paula Peixoto and Tom A. B. Snijders. Karlo Babić talked about methods for embedding networks into vector representations.


LangNet contribution @ OmoReader

OmoReader is a free mobile application that helps people with dyslexia to read text comfortably. The author of the idea is Petar Reić from OmoLab and Locastic companies developed the app. The algorithm used in the process of separating the word into the syllables is the result of the original scientific work "Syllabification based on maximal onset principle for Croatian", published in the Speech journal. The authors of the paper are Prof. Ana Meštrović, Prof. Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić from the Department of Informatics and Asist. Prof. Mihaela Matešić from the Faculty of Philosophy in Rijeka. You can read more about developing an app in the newspaper article. The application can be downloaded here. The paper is here.