Daniel Zeman

office
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email
zeman@ufal.mff.cuni.cz
phone
+420 951 554 225
address
Malostranské náměstí 25
118 00 Praha 1
Czech Republic

Main Research Interests

My research in computational linguistics is mostly centered around morphological analysis and dependency syntax of natural languages. I am interested in computational models of morphology and syntax, including preparation of annotated data to train such models.

I am particularly interested in multilingual approaches that work for many typologically different languages, cross-lingual techniques that support disadvantaged languages with little resources, and harmonized data resources that support multilingual processing. Besides training models, I also look into ways how these datasets can be used in comparative linguistics and typology.

Beyond surface syntax I am working on deep syntactic relations, semantic roles and coreference. In the past I also worked on statistical machine translation for morphologically rich languages.

Selected Bibliography

  1. Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Christopher Manning, Joakim Nivre, Daniel Zeman (2021): Universal Dependencies. In: Computational LinguisticsISSN 1530-9312, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 255-308 (urllocal PDFbibtex)
  2. Daniel Zeman, Jan Hajič (2020): FGD at MRP 2020: Prague Tectogrammatical Graphs. In: Proceedings of the CoNLL 2020 Shared Task: Cross-Framework Meaning Representation Parsing, pp. 33-39, Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, ISBN 978-1-952148-64-4 (urllocal PDFbibtex)
  3. Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Daniel Zeman, Magda Ševčíková (2020): Sentence Meaning Representations across Languages: What Can We Learn from Existing Frameworks? In: Computational LinguisticsISSN 1530-9312, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 605-665 (urllocal PDFbibtex)
  4. Daniel Zeman (2018): The World of Tokens, Tags and Trees. ISBN 978-80-88132-09-7 (urlbibtex)
  5. Daniel Zeman, Jan Hajič, Martin Popel, Martin Potthast, Milan Straka, Filip Ginter, Joakim Nivre, Slav Petrov (2018): CoNLL 2018 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies. In: Proceedings of the CoNLL 2018 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies, pp. 1-21, Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, ISBN 978-1-948087-82-7 (pdflocal PDFbibtex)
  6. Daniel Zeman, Ondřej Dušek, David Mareček, Martin Popel, Loganathan Ramasamy, Jan Štěpánek, Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Jan Hajič (2014): HamleDT: Harmonized Multi-Language Dependency Treebank. In: Language Resources and EvaluationISSN 1574-020X, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 601-637 (urllocal PDFbibtex)
  7. Martin Popel, David Mareček, Jan Štěpánek, Daniel Zeman, Zdeněk Žabokrtský (2013): Coordination Structures in Dependency Treebanks. In: Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 517-527, Association for Computational Linguistics, Sofija, Bulgaria, ISBN 978-1-937284-50-3 (pdflocal PDFposterslidesbibtex)
  8. Daniel Zeman (2008): Reusable Tagset Conversion Using Tagset Drivers. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008), pp. 213-218, European Language Resources Association, Marrakech, Morocco, ISBN 2-9517408-4-0 (urlposterlocal PDFbibtex)
  9. Daniel Zeman, Philip Resnik (2008): Cross-Language Parser Adaptation between Related Languages. In: IJCNLP 2008 Workshop on NLP for Less Privileged Languages, pp. 35-42, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India (urllocal PDFslidesbibtex)

See here for the complete list of publications.

Teaching

Projects

Supervised Theses

Graduated Doctoral Students

Graduated Master Students

  • Ján Faryad (2024)
  • Christian Cayralat (كريستيان خيرالله) (2021; Univerzita Karlova & Universität des Saarlandes)
  • Akshay Aggarwal (अक्षय अग्रवाल) (2020; Univerzita Karlova & Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea)
  • Ronald Cardenas (2020; Univerzita Karlova & L-Università ta' Malta)
  • Ọlájídé Ishola (2019; co-supervised at Universität Tübingen)
  • Adédayọ̀ Olúòkun (2018)
  • Vinit Ravishankar (विनीत रविशंकर) (2018; Univerzita Karlova & L-Università ta' Malta)
  • Joachim Daiber (2013; Univerzita Karlova & Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
  • Sibel Ciddi (2013; Univerzita Karlova & Universität des Saarlandes)
  • Manh-Ke Tran (Trần Mạnh Kế) (2012; Univerzita Karlova & Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
  • Pranava Swaroop Madhyastha (ಪ್ರನವ) (2012; Univerzita Karlova & L-Università ta' Malta)
  • Angelina Ivanova (Ангелина Иванова) (2011; Univerzita Karlova & Freie Universität Bozen)
  • Bushra Jawaid (بشری جاوید) (2010; Univerzita Karlova & L-Università ta' Malta)

Graduated Bachelor Students

  • Katarína Dančejová (2021)
  • Tereza Storzerová (2019)
  • Ondřej Hálek (2010; FJFI ČVUT)
  • Martin Žember (2007)
  • David Mareček (2006)