Petr Knoth

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Petr Knoth
Personal information
Born (1983-11-06) 6 November 1983 (age 42)
Brno, Czechoslovakia
Height1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in)
Figure skating career
Country Czech Republic
Discipline Ice dance
Partner Petra Pachlová
CoachFrantišek Blaťák
Natalia Vorobieva
Skating clubTJ Stadion Brno
Began skating1996
Retired2005
Medal record
Czech Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2004 Hradec Králové Ice dance
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2003 Brno Ice dance
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2005 Ostrava Ice dance

Petr Knoth (born 6 November 1983) is Professor of Data Science at the Knowledge Media institute, The Open University. He leads the Big Scientific Data and Text Analytics Group (BSDTAG) [1] which conducts research and develops new technologies powered by AI in the area of the machine processing of scientific information. He is the Founder and Head of CORE (COnnecting REpositories), a large not-for-profit full text indexing system for open access papers with millions of monthly active users. CORE makes research papers available for people to freely discover and access, and for machines to text-mine.

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In this capacity, he has been involved in numerous knowledge exchange cooperations with enterprises, funders and not-for-profit organisations, supporting a wide variety of use cases requiring scalable access to research content.

Petr has a deep interest in the use of AI to improve research workflows. He has been involved as a researcher and as a principle investigator in over 25 European Commission, national and international funded research projects in the areas of NLP, AI, Open Science and Technology Enhanced Learning [2] and has over 100 peer-reviewed publications based on this work. [3]

Until 2005, he was also a Czech ice dancer. With Petra Pachlová, he competed in the final segment at five ISU Championships – the 2004 European Championships and four World Junior Championships.

Former Ice Dancing Career

Knoth began learning to skate in 1996. [4] He and his skating partner, Petra Pachlová, made their ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) debut in 2000. They finished 23rd at the 2002 World Junior Championships in Hamar, Norway; and 13th at the 2003 World Junior Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

In October 2003, Pachlová/Knoth won bronze at a JGP event in Ostrava, Czech Republic. In January, they outscored Diana Janošťáková / Jiří Procházka to win the Czech national senior title and were selected to compete at the 2004 European Championships. Making their senior international debut, they finished 19th at the European Championships, which took place the following month in Budapest, Hungary. In March, they achieved their career-best ISU Championship result, tenth, at the 2004 World Junior Championships in The Hague, Netherlands. They were coached by Natalia Vorobieva until the end of the season. [5]

František Blaťák coached Pachlová/Knoth during the 2004–05 season. After placing fourth at a JGP event in Budapest, they took silver at their October JGP assignment in Kyiv, Ukraine. They were named first alternates for the ISU Junior Grand Prix Final. In December, they finished second to Janošťáková/Procházka at the Czech Championships. In March, they finished 11th at the 2005 World Junior Championships in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. It was their final competition together.

Programs

(with Pachlová)

Season Original dance Free dance
2004–2005
[4]
  • Quickstep: Let Me Be a Dancing Fool
  • Foxtrot: More
    by Frank Sinatra
  • Quickstep: Let Me Be a Dancing Fool
2003–2004
[5] 		Dance with Me (1998 film):
2002–2003
[6]
  • The Mask
2001–2002
[7]
  • Paso Doble
  • Spanish Waltz

Competitive highlights

with Pachlová
International [4]
Event98–9999–0000–0101–0202–0303–0404–05
Europeans 19th
International: Junior [4] [5] [6] [7]
Junior Worlds 23rd13th10th11th
JGP Bulgaria 9th
JGP Czech Rep. 16th5th3rd
JGP Germany 14th
JGP Hungary 4th
JGP Serbia 4th
JGP Slovakia 4th
JGP Slovenia 5th
JGP Ukraine 2nd
EYOF 4th
Grand Prize SNP1st1st
Pavel Roman 1st
National [4] [7]
Czech Champ. 3rd J3rd J2nd J1st J1st J1st2nd

References

  1. ↑ "The Open University". bsdtag.kmi.open.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-11-24.
  2. ↑ "People | Knowledge Media Institute | The Open University". kmi.open.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-11-24.
  3. ↑ "Petr Knoth". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2025-11-24.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Petra PACHLOVA / Petr KNOTH: 2004/2005". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 11 May 2006.
  5. 1 2 3 "Petra PACHLOVA / Petr KNOTH: 2003/2004". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 3 June 2004.
  6. 1 2 "Petra PACHLOVA / Petr KNOTH: 2002/2003". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 8 June 2003.
  7. 1 2 3 "Petra PACHLOVA / Petr KNOTH: 2001/2002". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 2 June 2002.
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