Pavel Pecina

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web:	http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~pecina/
office:	UFAL MFF UK, Malostranske namesti 25, room 422 118 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic
phone:	+420 221 914 332

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• NLP Reading Group meetings: Mondays, 15:00.

• Office Hours: Mon 11:00 - 12:00

bio sketch

I was born in Moravsky Krumlov, Czech Republic, and grew in the small village of Dolni Dubnany in South Moravia. In 1996, I graduated from the high school in Moravsky Krumlov, and in 2002 obtained a MS in Computer Science from Charles Univesity in Prague.

After my graduation I spent 12 months at the Center for Language and Speech Processing at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA as a visiting scholar. I had a great opportunity to work with Prof. Bill Byrne on interesting speech recognition and machine translation projects. In summer 2005, I worked with Chris Quirk and Arul Menezes on machine translation into morphologically complex languages at Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA.

In 2008, I defended my dissertation at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.

research interests

• lexical association measures
• machine learning and statistical classification
• speech retrieval
• machine translation

international experience

• 2005: jun-sep - Microsoft Research, USA
• 2003: oct-sep - CLSP, JHU, Baltimore, USA
• 2001: jun-sep - Glacier National Park, USA
• 2000: aug-sep - Penhow, Wales
• 2000: jul -aug - Lund, Sweden