RESEARCH INTERESTS

Resource light morphology and tagging; computational linguistics in general.

Mathematical models of grammar, especially of complex word-order.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Linguistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 2007.

Thesis: Czech Clitics in Higher Order Grammar
The thesis developed a grammatical framework for describing complex word-order, based on lambda-calculus/higher-order logic.

Doctoral Degree in Computer Science, Charles University, Prague, Czechia, 2001.

Master Degree in Computer Science, Summa cum laude, Charles University, Prague, Czechia, 1998.

Thesis: Two level morphology of Esperanto
The thesis models Esperanto morphology in a finite-state transducer system.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

ESSLLI, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2013

Computational Morphology

Charles University, Prague, since 2010.

Computational Morphology

Linguistics

Introduction to Linguistics

Introduction to Language

ESSLLI, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010

Resource-light Morpho-syntactic Analysis of Highly Inflected Languages

The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 2002-2006.

Introduction to Language in the Humanities (5 quarters)

Charles University, Prague, 1998-2001.

Natural Language Programming (2 semesters)

Programming II (functional and logical programming, 2 semesters)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Researcher, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Prague, 2009/11-present.

• Research and development of a resource-light system for processing language morphology.
• Research and development of learner corpora of Czech.
• Developer of a modular system for linguistic annotation, 2009-present.
• Teaching courses in natural language processing and linguistics, leading student theses.
• Technologies: Java, C#, Netbeans platform, relational and graph databases, concurrency, XML.

Software Developer, NCR, 2012/10-present

• Unsupervised detection of problems in Windows System Logs.
• Technologies: Java, C#, Matlab, MongoDB; data mining, anomaly detection

Freelance Software Developer, 1996/4-present.

• Developer of a web front-end to an application comparing historical documents, 2010-2012.
• Sole developer of a system for morphological annotation, 1996, 2005-2007.
• Lead developer of an ordering system for electrical equipment, 1997-1998.
• Technologies: C++, Java, VB; GlassFish, JSF, SQL, XML.

Software Developer, Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 2007/7-2009/10.

• Developing tools and libraries for processing, storing and accessing data from surveys.
• Developed a light-weight database access layer for a database with a non-standard structure.
• Technologies: Java, Ant, JAXB, JSF, JUnit, SAS, SQL, Oracle DB, XML.

Research and Teaching Associate, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 2002/9-2006/8

• Participated in development of Higher Order Grammar, a formalism based on higher-order logic.
• Developed a set of tools for morphological analysis.
  Includes an open and efficient system for morphological analysis of inflectional languages, automatic acquisition of lexicons and abbreviations, tools for detailed evaluation, corpora processing and tagging.
• Created, modified, and tested programs for statistical analysis of child obesity with missing data.
• Taught undergraduate linguistic courses.

Researcher, Charles University, Prague, Czechia, 1998/10-2001/8.

• Developed and adapted guidelines for morphological annotation.
• Designed and implemented modules for computer generation of Czech.

Freelance translator, 1996/10-2001/8.

• Translated computer manuals and tourist guides from English or German into Czech.

HONORS

Presidential Fellowship, The Ohio State University, 2006-2007

Fulbright Fellowship, 2001-2006.

Award in Recognition of Excellence in Teaching Linguistics 200 Level Courses, Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University, 2003.

University Fellowship, The Ohio State University, 2001-2002

FUNDED RESEARCH

Resource-light Morphological Analysis and Tagging, 2010-2012.
Role: Principal investigator (post-doctoral grant), Czech Science Foundation. Award amount: 2,424,000 CZK.

MEMBERSHIPS AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Member of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Program Committee Member, Treebanks and Linguistic Theories 2006, Prague.

The Ohio State University Working Papers in Linguistics Committee. Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University, 2001-2002

Ohio State Dissertations in Linguistics Committee. Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University, 2002-2004.

Teaching Administrator. Center for Computational Linguistics, Charles University, Prague, 2000-2001

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

SKILLS

Programming: Fluent in Java and C#; Experience with C++, Haskell, Prolog, SAS, SQL, Visual Basic, XML.

Languages: Czech (native), English (fluent); some knowledge of German, French, Russian, Esperanto.