2020W

• Data-oriented Programming Paradigms / 188.995 / VU
• Natural Language Processing and Information Extraction / 194.093 / VU

• Harnessing Information from Social Networks in Industry 4.0
  2016 – 2017 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
• Knowledge Helper for Medical and Other Information Users
  2011 – 2014 / European Commission
• Participative Research labOratory for Multimedia and Multilingual Information Systems Evaluation
  2011 – 2013 / European Commission

2019

• Multilingual Patent Text Retrieval Evaluation: CLEF-IP / F. Piroi, A. Hanbury / in: "Information Retrieval Evaluation in a Changing World", Springer, 2019, 365 - 387

2017

• Computer Assisted Diagnosis of Automatic Signalling Installations with Blinking Red Lights / E. Spunei, I. Piroi, C. Muscai, F. Piroi / in: "2017 International Conference on Electromechanical and Power Systems (SIELMEN)", IEEE, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-5386-1846-2, 589 - 592
• Fixed-cost Pooling Strategies based on IR Evaluation Measures / A. Lipani, J. Palotti, M. Lupu, F. Piroi, G. Zuccon, A. Hanbury / in: "ECIR 2017: Advances in Information Retrieval", issued by: Springer; Springer, Cham, Cham, 2017, ISBN: 978-3-319-56608-5, 357 - 368
• Message Ranking in a Factory Setting Using Context and User Preference / A. Taha, F. Piroi, A. Hanbury, T. Tropper, T. Mutzl, H. Shehata / in: "22nd IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA)", IEEE, 2017, ISSN: 1946-0759, 4 pages
• The Square Root Method for Terminal Voltage Adjustment in a Self-excited Synchronous Generator / E. Spunei, I. Piroi, D. Anghel, F. Piroi / in: "2017 5th International Symposium on Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ISEEE)", IEEE, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-5386-2059-5, 4 pages
• Computer-based diagnosis for electric power supply in train traffic installations / E. Spunei, I. Piroi, F. Piroi / in: "2017 5th International Symposium on Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ISEEE)", IEEE, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-5386-2059-5, 4 pages

2015

• A Researcher´s View on (Big) Data Analytics in Austria Results from an Online Survey / R. Bierig, A. Hanbury, F. Piroi, M. Haas, H. Berger, M. Lupu, M. Dittenbach / in: "Data Management Technologies and Applications, Third International Conference, DATA 2014, Vienna, Austria, August 29-31, 2014, Revised Selected papers", 178; M Helfert, A. Holzinger, O. Belo, C. Francalanci (ed.); Springer International Publishing, 2015, ISBN: 978-3-319-25935-2, 45 - 61
• Basic Concepts in the Diagnosis of Traffic Safety Installations Using Fuzzy Logic Based Models / E. Spunei, I. Piroi, F. Piroi / Analele Universitatii "Eftimie Murgu" Resita, Fascicula de Inginerie, 2 (2015), 2; 327 - 335
• Rapid diagnosis of track circuits in a railroad station / E. Spunei, I. Piroi, C. Chioncel, F. Piroi / Talk: THE 9th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ADVANCED TOPICS IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, Bucharest, Romania; 2015-05-07 - 2015-05-09; in: "9th International Symposium on Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering (ATEE), 2015", IEEE Xplore, (2015), ISBN: 978-1-4799-7514-3; 710 - 715
• Software Assisted Diagnosis for Shunting, Repeater, and Failure Light Signals in Stations with Electro-dynamic Interlocking Systems / E. Spunei, I. Piroi, F. Piroi / Talk: 10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTROMECHANICAL AND POWER SYSTEMS, Craiova, Romania AND Chisinau, Moldova; 2015-10-06 - 2015-10-09; in: "Proceedings of the 10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTROMECHANICAL AND POWER SYSTEMS", ALMA Verlag, Craiova, Romania, (2015), ISBN: 978-606-567-284-0; 512 - 517
• A Study on the Voltage Control Loop of a Self-excited Synchronous Generator in a Micro-Hydroelectric Power Plant / E. Spunei, I. Piroi, F. Piroi / Talk: 10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTROMECHANICAL AND POWER SYSTEMS, Craiova, Romania AND Chisinau, Moldova; 2015-10-06 - 2015-10-09; in: "Proceedings of the 10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTROMECHANICAL AND POWER SYSTEMS", ALMA Verlag, Craiova, Romania, (2015), ISBN: 978-606-567-284-0; 237 - 240
• DASyR(IR) - Document Analysis System for Systematic Reviews (in Information Retrieval) / F. Piroi, A. Lipani, M. Lupu, A. Hanbury / Talk: 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2015, Nancy, France; 2015-08-23 - 2015-08-26; in: "13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2015", IEEE Xplore, (2015), 591 - 595

2014

• Extracting Nanopublications from IR Papers / A. Lipani, F. Piroi, L. Andersson, A. Hanbury / Talk: 7th Information Retrieval Facility Conference (IRFC2014), Copenhagen, Denmark; 2014-11-11 - 2014-11-12; in: "Multidisciplinary Information Retrieval", Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8849 (2014), ISBN: 978-3-319-12978-5; 53 - 62
• An Information Retrieval Ontology for Information Retrieval Nanopublications / A. Lipani, F. Piroi, L. Andersson, A. Hanbury / Talk: 5th International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2014, Sheffield, UK; 2013-09-15 - 2013-09-18; in: "Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction", Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8685 (2014), ISBN: 978-3-319-11381-4; 44 - 49
• Automatic block signaling installation failure diagnosis with LCOBla / E. Spunei, I. Piroi, C. Muscai, F. Piroi / Talk: International Conference on Applied and Theoretical Electricity (ICATE) 2014, University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania; 2014-10-23 - 2014-10-25; in: "Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Applied and Theoretical Electricity (ICATE)", IEEExplore, (2014), ISBN: 978-1-4799-4161-2; 1 - 6
• Experimental measurements of the rotor oscillations in an synchronous generator during the three-phased sudden short-circuit test / I. Piroi, E. Spunei, F. Piroi / Talk: International Conference on Applied and Theoretical Electricity (ICATE) 2014, University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania; 2014-10-23 - 2014-10-25; in: "Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Applied and Theoretical Electricity (ICATE)", IEEExplore, (2014), ISBN: 978-1-4799-4161-2; 1 - 5
• Diagnosis charts for regular inversion failures of an Automatic Block Signal Installation / I. Piroi, E. Spunei, C. Muscai, F. Piroi / Talk: International Conference on Applied and Theoretical Electricity (ICATE) 2014, University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania; 2014-10-23 - 2014-10-25; in: "Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Applied and Theoretical Electricity (ICATE)", IEEExplore, (2014), ISBN: 978-1-4799-4161-2; 1 - 4
• ABS failure diagnosis charts for a blocked CL / E. Spunei, I. Piroi, C. Muscai, F. Piroi / Talk: International Conference on Applied and Theoretical Electricity (ICATE) 2014, University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania; 2014-10-23 - 2014-10-25; in: "Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Applied and Theoretical Electricity (ICATE)", IEEExplore, (2014), ISBN: 978-1-4799-4161-2; 1 - 5
• A Glimpse into the State and Future of (Big) Data Analytics in Austria / R. Bierig, A. Hanbury, M. Haas, F. Piroi, H. Berger, M. Dittenbach / Talk: 3rd International Conference on Data Management Technologies and Applications (DATA), Wien; 2014-08-29 - 2014-08-31; in: "DATA 2014", ScitePress, (2014), ISBN: 978-989-8565-67-9; 178 - 188
• Insight to Hyponymy Lexical Relation Extraction in the Patent Genre Versus Other Text Genres / L. Andersson, M. Lupu, J. Palotti, F. Piroi, A. Hanbury, A. Rauber / Talk: First International Workshop on Patent Mining and Its Applications (IPaMin 2014), Hildesheim, Germany; 2014-10-06 - 2014-10-07; in: "Patent Mining and Its Applications", CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 1292 (2014), ISSN: 1613-0073

2013

• Research on Decreasing the Cost Price for the Synchronous Hydrogenerator / E. Spunei, L. Padeanu, F. Piroi, I. Piroi, G. Liuba / Buletinul AGIR, 3 (2013), 163 - 168
• Overview of CLEF-IP 2013 Lab - Information Retrieval in the Patent Domain. / F. Piroi, M. Lupu, A. Hanbury / in: "Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visualization - 4th International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2013, Valencia, Spain, September 23-26, 2013. Proceedings", Springer, 2013, ISBN: 978-3-642-40801-4, 232 - 249
• Evaluating Flowchart Recognition for Patent Retrieval / M. Lupu, F. Piroi, A. Hanbury / Talk: The Fifth International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access, Tokyo, Japan; 2013-06-18; in: "The Fifth International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access", (2013), #!

2012

• Patent Images - a Glass encased Tool / Opening the case / M. Lupu, R. Mörzinger, T. Schleser, R. Schuster, F. Piroi, A. Hanbury / in: "Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies", ACM, 2012, ISBN: 978-1-4503-1242-4
• Effects of Language and Topic Size in Patent IR: An Empirical Study / F. Piroi, M. Lupu, A. Hanbury / Talk: Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visual Analytics (CLEF 2012), Italy; 2012-09-17 - 2012-09-20; in: "CLEF 2012 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7488 (2012), ISBN: 978-3-642-33246-3; 54 - 66

2010

• CLEF-IP 2009: Retrieval Experiments in the Intellectual Property Domain / G. Roda, J. Tait, F. Piroi, V. Zenz / in: "Multilingual Information Access Evaluation I. Text Retrieval Experiments", Lecture Notes in Computer Science; issued by: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010; Springer, 2010, ISBN: 978-3-642-15753-0, 385 - 409