Petra Galuscakova

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Petra Galuscakova

Kontakt

E-post: petra.galuscakova@uis.no

Rom: KE D-432

Sted: KE-D432

Organisasjonsenhet

Det teknisk- naturvitenskapelige fakultet

Institutt for data- og elektroteknologi

Kort om meg

I work on an intersection of information retrieval and natural language processing. I have been working on a wide range of information retrieval and natural language processing problems and I am interested in providing robust access strategies for complex search scenarios, such as cross-language retrieval and speech retrieval. I particularly enjoy working on interdisciplinary research and applications.

Work experience

   Since 2023: Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Stavanger
   2022-2023: Junior researcher, Modélisation et Recherche d’Information Multimédia, Université Grenoble Alpes
   2021: Researcher, Summer Camp for Applied Language Exploration, Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, Johns Hopkins University
   2018-2021: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland
   Since 2017: Language expert, Lionbridge
   2010 - 2017: Research assistant, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University
   2010: Research programmer-linguist, Seznam a.s.

Education

   PhD in Computational Linguistics, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 2018
   Mgr. in Computational Linguistics (Equivalent to M.Sc.), Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 2011
   Bc. in Computer Science (Equivalent to B.Sc.), Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 2008

Currently Taught Courses

Databases and Web programming (DAT130)
Generative AI (DAT560) 
Information Retrieval and Text Mining (DAT640)

Teaching Competences
PhD supervisory qualification program (100 hours, 2024)
An Introduction to Evidence-Based STEM Undergraduate Teaching (2019)

Publikasjoner

Vitenskapelige publikasjoner

Dominykas Petniunas; Gabriel Emerson Iturra Bocaz; Petra Galuscakova (2026) RAG in the Aerospace Domain: A Comprehensive Retrieval, Generation, and User Evaluation for NASA Documentation. I: Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR). Online ISSN 2640-3498. s.345-357. DOI: https://proceedings.mlr.press/v307/petniunas26a.html

Matteo Cancellieri; Alaa El-Ebshihy; Tobias Fink; Maik Fröbe; Petra Galuščáková; Gabriela Gonzalez-Saez; Lorraine Goeuriot; David Iommi; Jüri Keller; Petr Knoth; Philippe Mulhem; Florina Piroi; David Pride; Philipp Schaer (2025) LongEval at CLEF 2025: Longitudinal Evaluation of IR Systems on Web and Scientific Data. I: Jorge Carrillo-de-Albornoz, Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction (CLEF 2025).. Springer Publishing Company. ISBN 9783032043542. s.363-387. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-04354-2_20

Sirina Håland; Trond Karlsen Strøm; Petra Galuscakova (2025) Navigating Speech Recording Collections with AI-Generated Illustrations. I: Omar Alonso; Suzan Verberne; Andrew Trotman; Nicola Ferro; Maria Maistro; Gabriella Pasi, SIGIR '25: The 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ISBN 9798400715921. DOI: 10.1145/3726302.3730136

Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio; Guglielmo Faggioli; Nicola Ferro; Petra Galuscakova; Alba García Seco de Herrera; Lorraine Goeuriot; Philippe Mulhem; Georges Quénot; Didier Schwab; Laure Soulier (2025) Report on the 15th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2024): Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction. I: SIGIR Forum. ISSN 0163-5840. Volum 58. s.17-17. DOI: 10.1145/3722449.3722465

Matteo Cancellieri; Alaa El-Ebshihy; Tobias Fink; Petra Galuščáková; Gabriela Gonzalez-Saez; Lorraine Goeuriot; David Iommi; Jüri Keller; Petr Knoth; Philippe Mulhem; Florina Piroi; David Pride; Philipp Schaer (2025) LongEval at CLEF 2025: Longitudinal Evaluation of IR Model Performance. I: Craig Macdonald; Fabio Pinelli; Fabrizio Silvestri; Gabriella Kazai; Dietmar Jannach; Nicola Tonellotto; Franco Maria Nardini; Claudia Hauff, Advances in Information Retrieval : 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2025, Lucca, Italy, April 6–10, 2025, Proceedings, Part IV. Springer Nature. ISBN 9783031887161. s.382-388. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-88720-8_58

Gabriel Iturra-Bocaz; Danny Vo; Petra Galuscakova (2025) Impact of Shallow vs. Deep Relevance Judgments on BERT-based Reranking Models. I: Benjamin Piwowarski; Sebastian Bruch; Laura Dietz; Hamed Zamani, ICTIR '25: Proceedings of the 2025 International ACM SIGIR Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ISBN 9798400718618. DOI: 10.1145/3731120.3744602

Venktesh V; Vinay Setty; Avishek Anand; Boushra Bendou; Maram Hasanain; Houda Bouamor; Gabriel Emerson Iturra Bocaz; Petra Galuscakova; Firoj Alam (2025) Overview of the CLEF-2025 CheckThat! Lab Task 3 on Fact-Checking Numerical Claims. I: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Online ISSN 1613-0073.

Gabriela Gonzalez-Saez; Petra Galuscakova; Romain Deveaud; Philippe Mulhem; Lorraine Goeuriot (2024) Outil d’exploration visuelle de l’évaluation longitudinale en Recherche d’Information. I: Liana Ermakova; Philippe Mulhem, CORIA-RJCRI 2024 : COnférence en Recherche d'Informations et Applications, 3-4 avril 2024 (La Rochelle). CORIA.

Thi Hoang Thi Pham; Petra Galuscakova; Philippe Mulhem; Gabriela Gonzales-Saez; Lorraine Goeuriot (2024) Impact des collections sur les performances des Systèmes de Recherche d’Information. I: Liana Ermakova; Philippe Mulhem, CORIA-RJCRI 2024 : COnférence en Recherche d'Informations et Applications, 3-4 avril 2024 (La Rochelle). CORIA.

Nolwenn Bernard; Ivica Kostric; Weronika Lajewska; Krisztian Balog; Petra Galuscakova; Vinay Setty; Martin G Skjæveland (2024) PKG API: A Tool for Personal Knowledge Graph Management. I: Conference ACM, WWW '24 : Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ISBN 9798400701726. s.1051-1054. DOI: 10.1145/3589335.3651247

Peter Røysland Aarnes; Vinay Jayarama Setty; Petra Galuscakova (2024) IAI Group at CheckThat! 2024: Transformer Models and Data Augmentation for Checkworthy Claim Detection. I: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Online ISSN 1613-0073. Volum 3740. s.339-350.

Rabab Alkhalifa; Hsuvas Borkakoty; Romain Deveaud; Alaa El-Ebshihy; Luis Espinosa-Anke; Tobias Fink; Gabriela Gonzalez-Saez; Petra Galuscakova; Lorraine Goeuriot; David Iommi; Maria Liakata; Harish Tayyar Madabushi; Pablo Medina-Alias; Philippe Mulhem; Florina Piroi; Martin Popel; Christophe Servan; Arkaitz Zubiaga (2024) LongEval : Longitudinal evaluation of model performance at CLEF 2024. I: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). ISSN 0302-9743. Volum 14613. s.60-66. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-56072-9_8

Rabab Alkhalifa; Hsuvas Borkakoty; Romain Deveaud; Alaa El-Ebshihy; Luis Espinosa-Anke; Tobias Fink; Petra Galuscakova; Gabriela Gonzales-Saez; Lorraine Goeuriot; David Iommi; Maria Liakata; Harish Tayyar Madabushi; Pablo Medina-Alias; Philippe Mulhem; Florina Piroi; Martin Popel; Arkaitz Zubiaga (2024) Overview of the CLEF 2024 LongEval Lab on Longitudinal Evaluation of Model Performance. I: Petra Galuscakova; Georges Quénot; Nicola Ferro; Alba García Seco de Herrera; Lorraine Goeuriot; Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio; Philippe Mulhem; Guglielmo Faggioli; Laure Soulier; Didier Schwab, Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction : 15th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2024 : Proceedings, Part II. Springer. ISBN 9783031719080. s.208-230. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-71908-0_10

Bøker og kapitler

Guglielmo Faggioli; Nicola Ferro; Petra Galuscakova; Alba G. Seco de Herrera (2024) CLEF 2024 : Working Notes on the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2024), Grenoble, France, 9-12 September, 2024. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

Lorraine Goeuriot; Philippe Mulhem; Georges Quénot; Didier Schwab; Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio; Laure Soulier; Petra Galuscakova; Alba García Seco de Herrera; Guglielmo Faggioli; Nicola Ferro (2024) Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction : 15th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2024 : Proceedings, Part II. Springer. ISBN 9783031719080.

Formidling

Breuer, Timo; Cancellieri, Matteo; El-Ebshihy, Alaa; Fröbe, Maik; Petra Galuscakova; Goeuriot, Lorraine; Gabriel Emerson Iturra Bocaz; Keller, Jüri; Knoth, Petr; Kruff, Andreas Konstantin; Mulhem, Philippe; Piroi, Florina; Pride, David; Schaer, Philipp; Schwab, Didier (2026) Evaluating Information Retrieval Models Along Time: The LongEval Lab at CLEF 2026 | Springer Nature Link. I: Advances in Information Retrieval. Volum 13186. s.345-353. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-21321-1_45

Salomz Cojean; Nicolas Martin; Petra Galuscakova (2025) • Beyond Interpolation: Enhancing Large Language Models (LLMs) with Mental Models. I: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Volum 47.

Sergey Alyaev; Liang Zhang; Benoit Daireaux; Michal Chudoba; Tomasz Wiktorski; Petra Galuscakova (2025) DDBot – AI for automatic population of DWIS semantical models. DigiWells Anual Seminar; 2025-11-24 - 2025-11-25.

Matteo Cancellieri; Alaa El-Ebshihy; Tobias Fink; Maik Fröbe; Petra Galuscakova; Gabriela Gonzalez-Saez; Lorraine Goeuriot; David Iommi; Jüri Keller; Petr Knoth; Philippe Mulhem; Florina Piroi; David Pride; Philipp Schaer (2025) Extended Abstract of LongEval at CLEF 2025: Longitudinal Evaluation of IR Systems on Web and Scientific Data. I: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Online ISSN 1613-0073. Volum 16089. s.3296-3299. DOI: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4038/paper_264.pdf

Salomé Cojean; Nicolas Martin; Petra Galuscakova (2025) Beyond Interpolation: Enhancing Large Language Models (LLMs) with Mental Models. I: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Volum 47. DOI: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5k8295z6

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