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2007/12/04 Some small updates made; 2007 publications added.
2007/07/18 (These) new web pages are finally in place! Look below, or click on the above shortcut links to the individual sections of my pages.

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).

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) grants. The list of current projects is below.

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 (Czech language version).

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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 compelte set of foils in html form.

My other current and former teaching at Charles University in Prague can be found here.

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General Chair

Program Committee Chair, Co-chair

Program Committee Area Chair, Full PC Member

I have also served as a reviewer at additional 29 conferences or workshops (between 1994 and 2008).

Organization of conferences and workshops

Committees, Boards

Awards

Membership

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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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