Markéta Lopatková
Associate ProfessorInstitute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (ÚFAL)
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Charles University in Prague
Address:
ÚFAL, MFF UK
Malostranské náměstí 25
CZ-118 00 Praha, Czech Republic
Contacts:
phone: +420 221 914 258
fax: +420 221 914 309
e-mail: lopatkova@ufal.mff.cuni.cz
Main Research Interests
- dependency syntax, treebanking, tectogrammatical representation, Prague Dependency Treebank
- lexical semantics, Valency Lexicon of Czech Verbs VALLEX 2.5
- formal modeling of natural languages, dependency analysis by reduction, restarting automata
- word order, non-projectivity of natural languages
- sentence ambiguity (syntactic, morphological)
Teaching Activities
International Programs
- ERASMUS, Lifelong Learning Programme (for Czech students)
- LCT, European Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies: LCT webpage, LCT at Charles University
- CLARA, Common Language Resources and their Applications (Marie Curie ITN)
Courses at MFF UK
- Prague Dependency Treebank (NPFL075)
- Matematická analýza I., II., III. (Mathematical Analysis, in Czech) (cvičení k předmětům NMAI054, NMAI055 a NMAI056)
- Matematické metody v lingvistice I., II. (Mathematical Methods in Linguistics I., II., in Czech) (NPFL073, NPFL074)
- Vybrané problémy z lingvistiky I., II. (Selected Linguistic Problems I.,II.) (NPFL071, NPFL072) - not taught
- Praktikum z informatiky (PRG022) - not taught
Curriculum Vitae
Professional Experience
Education and Academic Carrier
- 2011 associate professor in Computer Science - Mathematical Linguistics
- Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
- 2001 Ph.D. degree in Computational Linguistics
- Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
- 2001 Bolzano Award
- Charles University award for the best Bc., Mgr. and Ph.D theses
- 1993-2001
- Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (postgraduate student)
- 1992 Mgr. in Mathematics
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Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and
Physics
(classical and modern mathematical analysis, differential equations, numerical methods)
Selected Bibliography
Books and Chapters in Books
- Lopatková, M., Žabokrtský, Z., Kettnerová, V.: Valenční slovník českých sloves. Praha: Karolinum, 382 p., 2008 (ve spolupráci se Skwarskou, K., Bejčkem, E., Hrstkovou, K., Novou, M., Tichým, M.)
- Lopatková, M., Panevová, J.: Recent Developments in the Theory of Valency in the Light of the Prague Dependency Treebank. Chapter in: Šimková, M. (ed.) Insight into Slovak and Czech Corpus Linguistic. Bratislava: Veda Bratislava, pp. 83-92, 2006
- Lopatková, M.: O homonymii předložkových skupin. (Co umí počítač?) Praha: Karolinum, 2003
Theses
- Lopatková, M.: Valency Lexicon of Czech Verbs: Towards Formal Description of Valency and Its Modeling in an Electronic Language Resource. Habilitation thesis, Charles University in Prague, Prague, 2010. 165+vi pages.
- Straňáková, M.: Homonymie předložkových skupin a možnost jejich automatického zpracování. (Ambiguity of prepositional groups and the possibility of its automatic processing.) Ph.D Thesis, 2001. Summary.
Journal Articles
- Lopatková, M., Homola, P., Klyueva, N.: Annotation of sentence structure: Capturing the relationship between clauses in Czech sentences. Language Resources and Evaluation, 2011
- Lopatková, M., Plátek, M., Sgall, P.: Towards a Formal Model for Functional Generative Description: Analysis by Reduction and Restarting Automata. The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics No. 87, pp.7-26, 2007
- Žabokrtský, Z., Lopatková, M.: Valency Information in VALLEX 2.0: Logical Structure of the Lexicon. The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics No. 87, pp. 41-60, 2007
- Lopatková, M.: Valency in the Prague Dependency Treebank: Building the Valency Lexicon. The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics No. 79-80, pp. 37-59, 2003
- Straňáková, M.: Selected Types of Pg-Ambiguity. The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics No. 72, pp. 29-58, 1999
Selected Conference and Workshop Papers
- Kettnerová, V., Lopatková, M.: The Lexicographic Representation of Czech Diatheses: Rule Based Approach. In Natural Language Processing, Multilinguality (Proceedings of Slovko 2011) (Slovenská akadémia vied, Bratislava, Slovakia), Tribun EU, Brno, p. 89-100, 2011
- Kuboň, V., Lopatková, M.: Studying Properties of Czech Complex Sentences from an Annotated Corpus. In Proceedings of the 24th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 24), The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California, p. 180-185, 2011
- Lopatková, M., Mráz, F., Plátek, M.: Towards a formal model of natural language description based on restarting automata with parallel DR-structures In Pardubská, D. (ed.) Proceedings of the Conference Information Technologies - Applications and Theory (ITAT 2010), Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika, p. 25-32, Seňa, Slovakia, PONT s. r. o., 2010
- Plátek, M., Mráz, F., Lopatková, M.: (In)Dependencies in Functional Generative Description by Restarting Automata. In Bordihn, H., Freund, R., Hinze, T., Holzer, M., Kutrib, M., Otto, F. (eds.) Proceedings of Second Workshop on Non-Classical Models for Automata and Applications (NCMA 2010), books@ocg.at, Band 263, p. 155-170, Wien, @Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft, 2010
- Bejček, E., Kettnerová, V., Lopatková, M.: Advanced Searching in the Valency Lexicons Using PML-TQ Search Engine. In P. Sojka, A. Horák, I. Kopeček, K. Pala (eds.) Proceedings of Text, Speech and Dialogue International Conference, TSD 2010, LNAI 6231, Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Verlag, p. 51-58, 2010.
- Kettnerová, V., Lopatková, M.: The Representation of Diatheses in the Valency Lexicon of Czech Verbs. In Loftsson, H., Rögnvaldsson, E., Helgadóttir, S. (eds.) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Natural Language Processing (IceTAL 2010), LNAI 6233, Berlin Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, p. 185-196, 2010
- Jakob, M., Lopatková, M., Kordoni, V.: Mapping between Dependency Structures and Compositional Semantic Representations. In Calzolari, N., Choukri, K., Maegaard, B., Mariani, J., Odijk, J., Piperidis, S., Rosner, M., Tapias D. (eds.) Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10), ELRA, 2010
- Plátek, M., Mráz, F., Lopatková, M.: Restarting Automata with Structured Output and Functional Generative Description. In Dediu, A. H., Hernau, F., Martín-Vide, C. (eds.) Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference Language and Automata Theory and Applications (LATA 2010) , LNCS 6031, Berlin Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, p. 500-511, 2010
- Kettnerová, V., Lopatková, M.: Changes in Valency Structure of Verbs: Grammar vs. Lexicon. In Levická, J., Garabík, R. (eds.) NLP, Corpus Linguistics, Corpus Based Grammar Research - Proceedings of Slovko 2009, Slovak National Corpus, Ĺ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science, Bratislava, p. 198-210, 2009
- Lopatkové, M., Klyueva, N., Homola, P.: Annotation of Sentence Structure; Capturing the Relationship among Clauses in Czech Sentences In Proceedings of the Third Linguistic Annotation Workshop, Law III, ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Conference, Association for Computational Linguistics, Singapore, p. 74-81, 2009
- Lopatková, M., Holan, T.: Segmentation Charts for Czech - Relations among Segments in Complex Sentences. In Dediu, A. H., Ionescu, A. M., Martín-Vide, C. (eds.) Proceedings of the Third International Conference Language and Automata Theory and Applications (LATA 2009) LNCS 5457, Berlin Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, p. 542-553, 2009
- Kettnerová, V., Lopatková, M., Hrstková, K.: Semantic Roles in Valency Lexicon of Czech Verbs: Verbs of Communication and Exchange. In Nordström, B., Ranta, A. (eds.) Advances in Natural Language Processing; Proceedings of GoTAL 2008 , LNAI 5221, Berlin Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, p. 217-221, 2008
- Hlaváčová, J., Lopatková, M.: Variants and Homographs: Eternal Problem of Dictionary Makers. In Sojka, P., Horák, A., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds.) Proceedings of Text, Speech and Dialogue International Conference (TSD 2008) , LNAI 5246, Berlin Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, p. 93-100, 2008
- Kettnerová, V., Lopatková, M., Hrstková, K.: Semantic Classes in Czech Valency Lexicon: Verbs of Communication and Verbs of Exchange. In Sojka, P., Horák, A., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds.) Proceedings of Text, Speech and Dialogue International Conference (TSD 2008) , LNAI 5246, Berlin Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, p. 109-116, 2008
- Benešová, V., Lopatková, M., Hrstková, K.: Enhancing Czech Valency Lexicon with Semantic Information from FrameNet: The Case of Communication Verbs. In Webster, J., Ide, N., Chengyu Fang, A. (eds.) Proceedings of The First International Conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources (ICGL 2008) Hong Kong, SAR, p. 18-25, 2008.
- Lopatková, M., Plátek, M., Sgall, P.: Functional Generative Description, Restarting Automata and Analysis by Reduction. In Marušič, F., Žaucer, R. (eds.) Studies in Formal Slavic Linguistics. Contributions from Formal Description of Slavic Languages 6.5. Series: Linguistik International, Vol. 19, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, pp. 173-190, 2008
- Kuboň, V., Lopatková, M., Plátek, M., Pognan, P.: A Linguistically-Based Segmentation of Complex Sentences. In Wilson, D. C., Sutcliffe, G. C. J. (eds.) Proceedings of the 20th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 20), Menlo Park, California, AAAI Press, pp. 368-374, 2007
- Kuboň, V., Lopatková, M., Plátek, M., Pognan, P.: Segmentation of Complex Sentences. In Sojka, P., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds.) Proceedings of Text, Speech and Dialogue International Conference (TSD 2006), LNAI 4188, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 151-158, 2006.
- Lopatková, M., Žabokrtský, Z., Skwarska, K.: Valency Lexicon of Czech Verbs: Alternation-Based Model. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006), ELRA, pp. 1728-1733, 2006
- Lopatková, M., Plátek, M., Kuboň, V.: Modeling syntax of Free Word-Order Languages: Dependency Analysis by Reduction. In Matoušek, V., Mautner, P., Pavelka, T. (eds.) Proceedings of Text, Speech and Dialogue International Conference (TSD 2005), LNAI 3658, Springer, pp. 140-147, 2005.
- Lopatková, M., Bojar, O., Semecký, O., Benešová, V., Žabokrtský, Z.: Valency Lexicon of Czech Verbs VALLEX: Recent Experiments with Frame Disambiguation. In Matoušek, V., Mautner, P., Pavelka, T. (eds.) PProceedings of Text, Speech and Dialogue International Conference (TSD 2005), LNAI 3658, Springer, pp. 99-106, 2005.
- Žabokrtský, Z., Lopatková, M.: Valency Frames of Czech Verbs in VALLEX 1.0. In Meyers, A. Frontiers in Corpus Annotation, Proceedings of the workshop joined HLT/NAACL Conference, ACL, Boston, pp. 70-77, 2004. 03-RA-mnich.pdf
- Plátek, M., Lopatková, M., Oliva, K.: Restarting Automata: Motivations and Applications. In Holzer, M. (ed.) Proceedings of the workshop Petrinetze München, Technische Universität München, p. 90-96, 2003
- Lopatková, M., Řezníčková, V., Žabokrtský, Z.: Valency Lexicon for Czech: from Verbs to Nouns. In Sojka, P., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds.) Proceedings of Text, Speech and Dialogue International Conference (TSD 2002) , LNAI2448, Springer, pp. 147-150, 2002.
- Straňáková-Lopatková, M., Žabokrtský, Z.: Valency Dictionary of Czech Verbs: Complex Tectogrammatical Annotation. In M. González Rodríguez, C. Paz Suárez Araujo (eds.) LREC2002, Proceedings vol.III., ELRA, pp. 949-956, 2002.
- Skoumalová, H., Straňáková-Lopatková, M., Žabokrtský, Z.: Enhancing the Valency Dictionary of Czech Verbs: Tectogrammatical Annotation. In Matoušek, V., Mautner, P., Mouček, R., Taušer, K. (eds.) Proceedings of Text, Speech and Dialogue International Conference (TSD 2001), LNAI 2166, Springer, pp. 142-149, 2001.
- Straňáková-Lopatková, M.: Ambiguity of Prepositional Groups; Classification, Criteria and Method for Automatic Processing. In Šaric, L., Reindl, D.F. (eds.) On Prepositions. Studia Slavica Oldenburgensia 8, Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem, Oldenburg, pp.263-282, 2001.
- Straňáková, M.: Selected Types of Pg-Ambiguity; Processing Based on Analysis by Reduction. In Sojka, P., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds.) Proceedings of Text, Speech and Dialogue International Conference (TSD 2000), LNAI 1902, Springer, pp. 139-144, 2000.
- Panevová, J., Straňáková, M.: Some Types of Syntactic Ambiguity; How to Treat Them in an Automatic Procedure. In Matoušek, V., Mautner, P., Ocelíková, J., Sojka, P. (eds.) Proceedings of Text, Speech and Dialogue International Conference (TSD'99), LNAI 1692, Springer, pp. 50-55, 1999.
Others
- Kettnerová, V., Lopatková, M.: Representation of Changes in Valency Structure of Verbs in the Valency Lexicon of Czech Verbs In Bertinetto, P. M., Korhonen, A., Lenci, A., Melinger, A., Schulte im Walde, S., Villavicencio, A. (eds.) Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Workshop of Verbs (IWV 2010): The Identification and Representation of Verb Features, Scuola Normale Superiore - Laboratore di Linguistica, Universita di Pisa - Dipartimento di Linguistica, Pisa, p. 154-159, 2010
- Kettnerová, V., Lopatková, M.: Mapping Semantic Information from FrameNet onto VALLEX (Extended Abstrakt). In FrameNet Masterclass and Workshop, co-located with TLT 8 (Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories), Milan, 2009
- Lopatková, M., Žabokrtský, Z., Benešová, V. Valency Lexicon of Czech verbs VALLEX 2.0. UFAL Technical Report TR-2006-34, 27+233 p., 2006 (in cooperation with: K. Skwarska, K. Chvátalová, M. Nová, E. Bejček, M. Tichý)
- Lopatková, M., Žabokrtský, Z., Skwarska, K., Benešová, V.: VALLEX 1.0 Valency Lexicon of Czech Verbs. CKL/UFAL Technical Report TR-2003-18, 2003.
- Lopatková, M.: Issue of Valency in Prague Dependency Treebank: Creating valency lexicon of Verbs. In Hajičová, E. (ed.) XVII International Congress of Linguists Abstracts, Prague, CKL MFF UK, p. 153-153, 2003.
- Lopatková, M., Žabokrtský, Z., Skwarská, K., Benešová, V.: Tektogramaticky anotovaný valenční slovník českých sloves. UFAL/CKL Technical Report TR-2002-15, 2002.
Public Releases of Linguistic Data
- Lopatková, M., Žabokrtský, Z., Benešová, V.: VALLEX 2.5 Valency Lexicon of Czech Verbs, 2007.
- Lopatková, M., Žabokrtský, Z., Benešová, V.: VALLEX 2.0 Valency Lexicon of Czech Verbs, 2006.
- Lopatková, M., Žabokrtský, Z., Skwarska, K., Benešová, V.: VALLEX 1.0 Valency Lexicon of Czech Verbs, 2003.