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Research |
| Short Bio | |
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| Teaching | |
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| Archive/Links |
2013/01/12 Another set of small changes to the short bio below.
2012/10/10 Small changes to bio, projects.
2012/09/03 Bios, projects updated (this page).
2011/08/25 Some additional updates (service, projects).
Direct link to a searchable publication list added
(which is updated [almost] continuously).
2011/07/27 LSA 2011: the Prague Dependency
Treebank workshop page created.
2011/01/31 Bio, projects, publications updated.
2010/09/15 Projects updated.
My research interest evolved from morphology and tagging of inflective languages (lexicons, analysis and generation tools - see this demo) to machine translation (French-English while at IBM and Czech-English; also, Czech-Russian and other closely related languages). I am also interested in parsing (see e.g. the CLSP Workshop on parsing Czech) and generation. However, in the past 10 years, I devoted most of my research time to creating linguistic resources, such as the Prague Dependency Treebank family of projects (Czech, English, Arabic) and managing new research projects, mainly funded by the EU (see below for a complete list).
I am also interested in spoken language understanding. I participated in the now finishing project Malach, both on the language modeling part (for ASR), on thesaurus translation and on the IR Czech test collection.
I closely work not only with my students, but also with other Czech and foreign teams, such as the University or West Bohemia in the Czech Republic, Center for Speech and Language Processing at the JHU, Center for Spoken Language Research at CU-Boulder, Linguistic Data Consortium, and several European Universities on EU projects (see below).
I am or have been the PI, or the national PI of several major Czech, EU and NSF (US) research projects. The list of current (or of very recently finished) projects is below.
| 2010-2015 | LINDAT-Clarin, Large infrastructural grant for language resources, data access and distribution and related reseearch, project LM2010013 of the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic |
| 2011-2014 | EUDAT, European Data Infrastructure, Large infrastructural EU project. PI of the Czech partner, Charles University in Prague. |
| 2010-2014 | Khresmoi, IP of the 7th FP of the EU (Coordinator: Hennig Müller, HES-SO, Switzerland) |
| 2010-2013 | META-NET, Network of Excellence of the 7th FP of the EU - Building the Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance (coordinated by DFKI, Berlin, Prof. Hans Uszkoreit) |
| 2010-2013 | Faust, STREP of the 7th FP of the EU - Feedback analysis for improved Statistical Machine Translation (Coordinator: William Byrne, University of Cambridge) |
| 2009-2012 | EuroMatrixPlus, STREP of the 7th FP of the EU (Coordinator: Hans Uszkoreit, Univ. of Saarland, Germany) |
| 2006-2010 | Companions, IP of the 6th FP of the EU - Conversational Dialogue system (Coordinator: Yorick Wilks, Univ. of Sheffield, GB) |
| 2005-2011 | Center for Computational Linguistics, a virtual Center for joint research with the University of West Bohemia, Masaryk University of Brno, and the Institute of the Czech Language in Prague) |
| 2006-2010 | PIRE, a project funded by the NSF to promote U.S. graduate student education in Europe. Topic: Investigation of Meaning Representations in Language Understanding for Speech Reconstruction and Machine Translation Systems. |
| 2002-2007 | Malach, project for automatic speech recognition (in many languages) of taped interviews with Holocaust survivors, collected by the Shoah Visual History Foundation. Also, Information Retrieval experiments and resource creation. |
Before that, I have been the PI or Co-PI of many other projects, such as the Czech Grant-Agency supported highly collaborative, nation-wide Czech National Corpus project (2003-2006), of several collaborative grants for mutual visits to/from U.S. institutions (Johns Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania, Univ. of Colorado), and of several smaller subcontracting grants (such as the U.S.-based GALE project). In the 90s, I have been the Czech PI of several collaborative EU projects specifically aimed at the formerly Soviet Bloc Countries (EU project STEEL, EU project CEGLEX).
I have been working on some other grants as a researcher as well, such as the predecessor Center for Computational Linguistics (2000-2004), the Laboratory for Linguistic Data (1996-2000), Czech-English MT project supported by the Czech Grant Agency MATRACE (1993-1995), and many smaller projects.
Several industrial projects have got my attention as well, such as the Czech Grammar Checker project and certain lexicon(s) for Microsoft, morphological databases for companies like IBM, Xerox, Lotus, Morphologic, Zi Corp., Lernout & Hauspie, and cooperation on product development for several Czech companies, such as ASPI (legal information system using NL search), Oracle (the Oracle Context product) and morphological dictionary development for the Czech and Slovak portal centrum.cz and centrum.sk.
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My full current CV can be downloaded from here (in English); the Czech version is here.
| 2003- | Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, School of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague. Director (2003-2011). Acting director (2001-2003, 2011-2012). Vice-director (2012-). LINDAT-Clarin infrastructural project director/coordinator (2012-). |
| 2008- | Full Professor of the Charles University in Prague |
| 2003-2007 | Associate Professor of the Charles University in Prague |
| 2002 | Team Leader, CLSP JHU Summer Workshop, Generation in the Context of Machine Translation |
| 1999-2000 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Computer Science Dept. and Center for Speech and Language Processing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. Teaching "Introduction to NLP" (two semesters) and "Data Structures" |
| 1998 | Team Leader, CLSP JHU Summer Workshop, Core Natural Language Processing Technology Applicable to Multiple Languages |
| 1994 | PhD ("Dr.") in Computational Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague. Topic: Computational Morphology of Czech. |
| 1993-2003 | Researcher, Assistant Professor, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, School of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague. |
| 1991-1993 | Visiting Scientist, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA. Project: Candide (Statistical Machine Translation French -> English, project head(s): Robert Mercer, Peter Brown) |
| 1990,1991 | Visiting Scientist, ISSCO, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland. Project: Multilingual Morphological Analysis. |
| 1984-1991 | Researcher, Research Institute of Mathematical Machines, Prague. Project: Machine Translation Czech -> Russian (software documentation). |
| 1979-1984 | Bc. & Master Degree study, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague (high honors, RNDr. 1984, thesis topic: Natural Language Robot Control). |
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A new searchable publication database of our Institute can be found here.
Just in case something does not work in the new database... my publications (only after 1998) and until 2005 and those in 2006-2007. For a complete list of my publications until 2008 please see this PDF.
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I am now teaching an adapted version of the "Introduction to (statistical) NLP" course which I developed while at JHU. The current course is divided into two parts: NPFL067 and NPFL068. Please see also my Hopkins' archive web pages for more information and the complete set of foils in html form.
My other current and former teaching at Charles University in Prague can be found here; and this is a direct link to my current courses in the Charles University information system.
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This section is new; it contains talks starting in 2012, but it will be extended backwards at some point.
| 2010 | ACL'10, Uppsala, Sweden |
| 2012 | META-RESEARCH Workshop on Advanced Treebanking, LREC 2012, Istanbul, Turkey (with Koenraad deSmedt, Antonio Branco and Marko Tadic). |
| 2007 | TLT'07 (Treebanks and Linguistic Theories), Bergen, Norway |
| 2006 | TLT'06 (Treebanks and Linguistic Theories), Prague, Czech Rep. |
| 2003 | EACL'03 (European ACL Conference), Budapest, Hungary |
| 2002 | EMNLP'02 (Empirical Methods in NLP), Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| 1999 | Thematic Session on "Parsing inflective and free word order languages" ACL '99, June 1999, College Park, MD, USA |
| 2004 | EMNLP'04, Barcelona, Spain |
| 2004 | EAMT Workshop, La Valetta, Malta |
| 2002 | ACL'02, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| 1995 | EACL'95, Dublin, Ireland |
| 2003- | Text, Speech and Dialog Conference, Czech Rep., (standing) PC (SC) Member |
I have also served as a reviewer at additional 37 conferences or workshops (between 1994 and 2012).
| 2012 | META-RESEARCH Workshop on Advanced Treeabnking, LREC 2012, Istanbul, Turkey. |
| 2007 | ACL'07 and EMNLP'07, Prague, Czech Republic (Local Coordinator) |
| 2006 | TLT'06, Prague, Czech Republic |
| 2006- | Vilem Matheisus Courses (Schools), Prague, Czech Republic |
| 2013-2017 | Member of the Management Committee (for Czech Republic) for the COST IC1207 Action of the ESF, within the 7th FP EU(PARSEME). |
| 2012-2015 | Member of the Standing Committee for CLARIN Technical Centres (SCCTC), of the EU-wide language resource infrastructure Clarin ERIC. |
| 2012-2015 | Member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague (2nd term) |
| 2012-2016 | Member of the Council of the core research PRVOUK project, awarded to the Computer Science School by the Charles University in Prague. |
| 2011-2014 | Research Council of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, member |
| 2011-2012 | Expert panel of the Coordinating Committee on the strategy of applied research in the Czech Republic ("Priorities 2030") of the Council for Science, Research and Innovations of the the Czech Republic |
| 2011-2012 | Scientific Council of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague |
| 2010-2014 | Subcommittee for social sciences and humanities, Council for Science, Research and Innovations of the government of the Czech Republic |
| 2008-2010 | Computational Linguistics, Editorial Board Member |
| 2003- | NSF Panels (ITR, HLT) |
| 1999-2002 | TEI Consortium Board of Directors Member, ACL Representative |
| 1998-1999 | TEI Steering Committee Member, ACL Representative |
| 1997- | EU Evaluation Committee(s), Research Projects |
| 1996- | Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, reviewer (Linguistic and Computer Science Programs) |
| 1995-1996 | European Chapter of the ACL Advisory Board Member |
| 1990- | Czech National Corpus Founding Member |
| 2012 | Silver Medal I of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague. |
| 2009 | Award of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic for the best research project in the programme "Information Society" 2005-2009 (Project: "From natural language to the semantic web") |
| 2005 | Co-author of a best student paper at EMNLP 2005, Vancouver, with Ryan McDonald, Fernando Pereira and Kiril Ribarov: "Non-projective Dependency Parsing using Spanning Tree Algorithms" |
| 2001 | Silver Medal of the Charles University in Prague (for the Czech National Corpus) |
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You might want to visit my previous page(s) and teaching pages at http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~hajic.
You might also want to visit our Institute's pages at http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz.
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