Florina Piroi

Florina Piroi is a Senior Scientist (Research Fellow) at the Center for Research Data Management (E058-06) within the Faculty of Informatics at TU Wien. Her research integrates information retrieval, knowledge graphs, and semantic technologies to advance exploratory search systems and research data infrastructure.

Her core research interests include:

• Information Retrieval evaluation and validation methodologies
• Knowledge graph applications for domain-specific search
• Patent text mining and semantic technologies
• Medical concept normalization and entity linking
• Argumentative zoning in scientific documents
• Table extraction and classification systems

Analysis of her recent publications reveals strong trends in applying machine learning to specialized IR tasks, particularly in patent analysis and medical text processing. Her work emphasizes robust evaluation frameworks and cross-lingual capabilities, with consistent contributions to the CLEF campaign and PatentSemTech workshops.

Dr. Piroi actively collaborates with international researchers through the Network Lab at TU Wien and contributes to the university's Center for Research Data Management, focusing on semantic technologies for research data infrastructure and scholarly communication systems.