Scholar
Petra Kralj Novak
Google Scholar ID: P5_RcIQAAAAJ
Central European University, Austria, and Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,172
H-index
16
i10-index
20
Publications
20
Co-authors
49
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published a significant paper on emoji sentiment analysis titled 'Sentiment of emojis', which has become a key reference in current research on emoji analysis.
Research Experience
- She is an associate professor at the Department of Network and Data Science, Central European University, and also serves as the Director of the Master of Science in Social Data Science Program. Additionally, she leads the theme 'Data-Driven Technologies for Social Sciences' within CIVICA. At the Jožef Stefan Institute's Department of Knowledge Technologies in Ljubljana, she participates in EU-funded projects such as OppAttune (Countering Oppositional Political Extremism) and TRUSTroke (Trustworthy AI for Improvement of Stroke Outcomes). She was the PI and coordinator of the EU REC project IMSyPP: Innovative Monitoring Systems and Prevention Policies of Online Hate Speech (2020-2022), and has been involved in several other European and national (Slovenian) research projects.
Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia; BSc in Computer and Information Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Background
- Her research interests lie in the broad area of knowledge discovery from databases, focusing on social and mainstream media, with a particular emphasis on tasks like sentiment analysis, hate speech detection, and network analysis. She has conducted pioneering work on the role of emojis in conveying sentiment.
Miscellany
- Contact Information: Vienna, Quellenstrasse 51 / D304/A, +43 1 25 230 7471, novakpe@ceu.edu; Office hours: Mondays 14:00 - 15:30, D 304A
