My research interests include the application of AI in design, case based reasoning, information extraction, predictive modelling, machine learning and knowledge sharing.

Keys: Artificial Intelligence, Case Based Reasoning, Design, Knowledge Sharing, Machine Learning, Predictive Modelling

Hillaire, G., Rienties, B., Fenton-O’Creevy, M., Zdrahal, Z. and Tempelaar, D. (2022) Incorporating student opinion into opinion mining Open World Learning, eds. Bart Rienties,Regine Hampel,Eileen Scanlon,Denise Whitelock, pp. 171-185, Routledge

Hlosta, M., Bayer, V. and Zdrahal, Z. (2020) Mini Survival Kit: Prediction based recommender to help students escape their critical situation in online courses, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK20), Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Hlosta, M., Zdrahal, Z., Bayer, V. and Herodotou, C. (2020) Why Predictions of At-Risk Students Are Not 100% Accurate? Showing Patterns in False Positive and False Negative Predictions, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK20), Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Herodotou, C., Rienties, B., Hlosta, M., Boroowa, A., Mangafa, C. and Zdrahal, Z. (2020) The scalable implementation of predictive learning analytics at a distance learning university: Insights from a longitudinal case study The scalable implementation of predictive learning analytics at a distance learning university: Insights from a longitudinal case study, pp. (In Press)

Hlosta, M., Kocvara, J., Beran, D. and Zdrahal, Z. (2019) Visualisation of key splitting milestones to support interventions, VISLA 2019: Workshop on Visual Approaches to Learning Analytics, Tempe, AZ, USA

Herodotou, C., Rienties, B., Boroowa, A., Zdrahal, Z. and Hlosta, M. (2019) A large-scale implementation of Predictive Learning Analytics in Higher Education: the teachers' role and perspective A large-scale implementation of Predictive Learning Analytics in Higher Education: the teachers' role and perspective

Herodotou, C., Hlosta, M., Boroowa, A., Rienties, B., Zdrahal, Z. and Mangafa, C. (2019) Empowering online teachers through predictive learning analytics Empowering online teachers through predictive learning analytics, pp. (Early Access)

Kuzilek, J., Vaclavek, J., Fuglik, V. and Zdrahal, Z. (2018) Student Drop-out Modelling Using Virtual Learning Environment Behaviour Data, Lifelong Technology-Enhanced Learning, 13th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, eds. Viktoria Pammer-Schindler, Mar Perez-Sanagustin, Hendrik Drachsler, Raymond Elferink, Maren Scheffel, LNCS 11082, pp. 166-171, Springer

Vaclavek, J., Kuzilek, J., Skocilas, J., Zdrahal, Z. and Fuglik, V. (2018) Learning Analytics Dashboard Analysing First-Year Engineering Students, Lifelong Technology-Enhanced Learning, 13th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, eds. Viktoria Pammer-Schindler, Mar Perez-Sanagustin, Hendrik Drachsler, Raymond Elferink, Maren Scheffel, LNCS 11082, pp. 575-578, Springer

Hlosta, M., Zdrahal, Z. and Zendulka, J. (2018) Are we meeting a deadline? classification goal achievement in time in the presence of imbalanced data, Knowledge-Based Systems, 160, pp. 278-295, Elsevier

Huptych, M., Hlosta, M., Zdrahal, Z. and Kocvara, J. (2018) Investigating Influence of Demographic Factors on Study Recommenders, Poster at Artificial Intelligence in Education, Springer, Cham

Kuzilek, J., Hlosta, M. and Zdrahal, Z. (2017) Open University Learning Analytics dataset, Scientific Data, 4, Nature Publishing Group

Herodotou, C., Gilmour, A., Boroowa, A., Rientes, B., Zdrahal, Z. and Hlosta, M. (2017) Predictive modelling for addressing students' attrition in Higher Education: The case of OU Analyse, CALRG Annual Conference 2017, The Open University

Hlosta, M., Zdrahal, Z. and Zendulka, J. (2017) Ouroboros: Early identification of at-risk students without models based on legacy data, Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK 17), ACM

Herodotou, C., Rienties, B., Boroowa, A., Zdrahal, Z., Hlosta, M. and Naydenova, G. (2017) Implementing predictive learning analytics on a large scale: the teacher's perspective, Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference (LAK'17), ACM

Huptych, M., Bohuslavek, M., Hlosta, M. and Zdrahal, Z. (2017) Measures for recommendations based on past students' activity, Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK 17), ACM

Kuzilek, J., Hlosta, M. and Zdrahal, Z. (2016) Open University Learning Analytics Dataset, Workshop: Data Literacy for Learning Analytics at Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK 16)

Zdrahal, Z., Hlosta, M. and Kuzilek, J. (2016) Analysing performance of first year engineering students, Workshop: Data Literacy for Learning Analytics at Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK 16)

Rienties, B., Cross, S. and Zdrahal, Z. (2016) Implementing a Learning Analytics Intervention and Evaluation Framework: what works? Big Data and Learning Analytics in Higher Education: Current Theory and Practice, eds. Ben Kei Daniel,Russell Butson, Springer

Herrmannova, D., Hlosta, M., Kuzilek, J. and Zdrahal, Z. (2015) Evaluating Weekly Predictions of At-Risk Students at The Open University: Results and Issues, EDEN 2015, Barcelona, Spain

Kuzilek, J., Hlosta, M., Herrmannova, D., Vaclavek, J., Zdrahal, Z. and Wolff, A. (2015) OU Analyse: Analysing At-Risk Students at The Open University, Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK15), Learning Analytics Review, LAK15-1, LACE project

Wolff, A., Zdrahal, Z., Herrmannova, D., Kuzilek, J. and Hlosta, M. (2014) Developing predictive models for early detection of at-risk students on distance learning modules, Workshop: Machine Learning and Learning Analytics at Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK), Indianapolis

Hlosta, M., Herrmannova, D., Vachova, L., Kuzilek, J., Zdrahal, Z. and Wolff, A. (2014) Modelling student online behaviour in a virtual learning environment, Workshop: Machine Learning and Learning Analytics at Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK), Indianapolis

Wolff, A., Mulholland, P. and Zdrahal, Z. (2014) Using machine-learning and visualisation to facilitate learner interpretation of source material, Interactive Learning Environments, 22, 6, pp. 771-788

Mulholland, P., Wolff, A., Zdrahal, Z., Li, N. and Corneli, J. (2013) Constructing and connecting storylines to tell museum stories, International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling

Wolff, A., Zdrahal, Z., Nikolov, A. and Pantucek, M. (2013) Improving retention: predicting at-risk students by analysing clicking behaviour in a virtual learning environment, Learning Analytics and Knowledge

Wolff, A., Zdrahal, Z., Herrmannova, D. and Knoth, P. (2013) Predicting Student Performance from Combined Data Sources, in eds. Alejandro Peña-Ayala, Educational Data Mining: Applications and Trends, 524, Springer

Knoth, P. and Zdrahal, Z. (2012) CORE: Three Access Levels to Underpin Open Access, D-Lib Magazine, 18, 11/12, Corporation for National Research Initiatives

Knoth, P., Zdrahal, Z. and Juffinger, A. (2012) Special Issue on Mining Scientific Publications, D-Lib Magazine, 18, 7/8, Corporation for National Research Initiatives

Wolff, A. and Zdrahal, Z. (2012) Improving retention by identifying and Supporting 'at-risk' students Case study for EDUCAUSE review online

Knoth, P., Zilka, L. and Zdrahal, Z. (2011) KMI, The Open University at NTCIR-9 CrossLink: Cross-Lingual Link Discovery in Wikipedia Using Explicit Semantic Analysis, NTCIR-9: Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Question Answering, and Cross-Lingual Information Access, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 495-502

Knoth, P., Zilka, L. and Zdrahal, Z. (2011) Using Explicit Semantic Analysis for Cross-Lingual Link Discovery, Workshop: 5th International Workshop on Cross Lingual Information Access: : Computational Linguistics and the Information Need of Multilingual Societies (CLIA) at The 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJC-NLP 2011), Chiang Mai, Thailand

Knoth, P. and Zdrahal, Z. (2011) Mining Cross-document Relationships from Text, The First International Conference on Advances in Information Mining and Management (IMMM 2011), Barcelona, Spain

Knoth, P., Robotka, V. and Zdrahal, Z. (2011) Connecting Repositories in the Open Access Domain using Text Mining and Semantic Data, International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2011 (TPDL 2011), Berlin, Germany

Knoth, P. and Zdrahal, Z. (2011) CORE: Connecting Repositories in the Open Access Domain, CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI7), Geneva, Switzerland

Wolff, A., Mulholland, P. and Zdrahal, Z. (2011) Character-eyes - Story-driven Inquiry from a Character's Viewpoint, Computer Supported Education (CSEDU'11), Holland

Mulholland, P., Wolff, A., Collins, T. and Zdrahal, Z. (2011) An Event-Based Approach to Describing and Understanding Museum Narratives, Workshop: Detection, Representation, and Exploitation of Events in the Semantic Web at International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011), Bonn, Germany

Wolff, A., Mulholland, P., Zdrahal, Z. and Blasko, M. (2010) Knowledge Modelling to Support Inquiry Learning Tasks, International COnference on Knowledge Science, Engineering & Management, Belfast, U.K.

Knoth, P., Novotny, J. and Zdrahal, Z. (2010) Automatic generation of inter-passage links based on semantic similarity, The 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), Beijing, China

Wolff, A., Mulholland, P. and Zdrahal, Z. (2010) Visual summaries of data: a spatial hypertext approach to user feedback, Poster at Hypertext 2010, Toronto, Canada

Knoth, P., Collins, T., Sklavounou, E. and Zdrahal, Z. (2010) Facilitating cross-language retrieval and machine translation by multilingual domain ontologies, Workshop: Workshop on Supporting eLearning with Language Resources and Semantic Data at LREC 2010, Valletta, Malta

Knoth, P., Collins, T., Sklavounou, E. and Zdrahal, Z. (2010) EUROGENE: Multilingual Retrieval and Machine Translation applied to Human Genetics, Demo at 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2010), Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Knoth, P., Sova, J. and Zdrahal, Z. (2010) Eurogene - The First Pan-European Learning Service in the Field of Genetics, Znalosti (Knowledge) 2010, Jindrichuv Hradec, Czech Republic

Li, N., Motta, E., d'Aquin, M. and Zdrahal, Z. (2010) Evaluation of an Ontology Summarization Approach, Poster at The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management by the Masses (EKAW 2010), Lisbon, Portugal

Whitelaw, L., Collins, T., Zdrahal, Z., Mulholland, P., Potter, L., Scantlebury, N. and Taylor, J. (2009) Pragmatic support for taxonomy-based annotation of digital documents, The Electronic Library. The international journal for the application of technology in information environment., 27, 5, pp. 755-767

Collins, T., Mulholland, P. and Zdrahal, Z. (2009) Using mobile phones to map online community resources to a physical museum space, International Journal of Web Based Communities, 5, 1, pp. 18-32

Zdrahal, Z., Knoth, P., Collins, T. and Mulholland, P. (2009) Reasoning across Multilingual Learning Resources in Human Genetics, ICL 2009, Villach, Austria

Zdrahal, Z., Mulholland, P., Truman, S. and Smid, M. (2009) G-LEARN: Using constraint modelling to teach geographical principles, Interactive Computer Aided Learning, ICL 2009, Villach, Austria

Mulholland, P., Zdrahal, Z., Abrahamcik, J. and Wolff, A. (2009) Intelligent support for inquiry learning from images: a learning scenario and tool, The 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED2009), Brighton, UK, pp. 417-424

Knoth, P., Schmidt, M., Smrz, P. and Zdrahal, Z. (2009) Towards a Framework for Comparing Automatic Term Recognition Methods, Znalosti 2009, Brno, Czech Republic

Smid, M., Truman, S., Mulholland, P., Zdrahal, Z. and Crouch, S. (2009) G-LEARN: An exploratory learning environment for school geography level, Znalosti 2009, Brno, Czech Republic, pp. 213-224, Vydavatel'stvo STU, Bratislava, ISBN 978-80-227-3015-0

Novakova, L., Collins, T. and Zdrahal, Z. (2009) Document annotations in genetics domain for Eurogene project, Znalosti 2009, Brno, Czech Republic, pp. 155-166, Vydavatel'stvo STU, Bratislava , 2009. ISBN 978-80-227-3015-0

Mulholland, P., Wolff, A., Zdrahal, Z. and Collins, T. (2008) Blending coherence and control in the construction of interactive educational narratives from digital resources, Interactive Learning Environments Journal, 16, 3, pp. 283-296, Routlege, Taylor & Francis

Zdrahal, Z., Mulholland, P. and Collins, T. (2008) Exploring Pathways across Stories, IEEE SMC Conference Distributed Human-Machine Systems (DHMS 2008), Athers, Grece, pp. 341-346

Mulholland, P., Zdrahal, Z. and Collins, T. (2008) Investigating the Effects of Exploratory Semantic Search on the Use of a Museum Archive, IEEE SMC Conference Distributed Human-Machine Systems (DHMS 2008), Athens, Greece

Zdrahal, Z., Mulholland, P., Valasek, M. and Bernardi, A. (2007) Worlds and transformations: supporting the sharing and reuse of engineering design knowledge, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 65, 12, pp. 959-982