Petr Sgall, Professor Emeritus of Charles University, died
The Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics is saddened by the passing of Emeritus Professor Petr Sgall, one of the founders and leading personalities in computational linguistics in former Czechoslovakia, aged 93.
Studies in Prague
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Pavel Straňák awarded
Pavel Straňák was awarded the 2018 Steven Krauwer Award for CLARIN Achievements for his outstanding contributions towards goals of the European infrastructure ERIC-CLARIN.
He specializes in the area of computational linguistics and open repositories for language resourses, contributing prominently to CLARIN both locally and internationally.
CoNLL Shared Task 2019
ÚFAL and LINDAT/CLARIN announce the Cross-Framework Meaning Representation Parsing CoNLL Shared Task (MRP 2019).
The goal of the task is to advance data-driven parsing into graph-structured representations of sentence meaning. Please see http://mrp.nlpl.eu/ for details, schedule, and data.
Syntax–Semantics Interface
Eva Hajičová
A new volume reflects the author’s research in four main domains: (i) the specification of the underlying dependency sentence structure, (ii) topic-focus articulation, (iii) building of an annotated corpus of Czech, and (iv) the notion of the hiearachy of knowledge elements shared by the speaker and the hearer.
Introducing Martin Popel
I developed a neural MT system CUNI-Transformer, which won in the English-Czech WMT2018 shared task. I also work on Universal Dependencies using Udapi.
I teach Language Data Resources, Modern Methods in Computational Linguistics and Natural language processing on computational cluster.
I am the technical editor of the PBML journal.