Pavel Pecina
Assistant professor, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University in Prague.contact
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news
- My thesis Lexical Association Measures: Collocation Extraction, published as a book in the series Studies in Computational and Theoretical Linguistics, was recognized by the Charles University in Prague as the Best book of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics for 2011.
bio sketch
I was born in Moravsky Krumlov, Czech Republic, and grew in the small village of Dolni Dubnany in South Moravia. In 2002, I obtained a MS in Computer Science from Charles Univesity in Prague. After my graduation, I spent one year at the Center for Language and Speech Processing at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA working with Bill Byrne on speech recognition and machine translation. During my internship in 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. In 2010 and 2011, I was a member of the Andy Way's machine translation group at Dublin City University, Ireland.
research interests
- machine translation
- lexical association measures
- machine learning in natural language processing
- speech retrieval
international experience
- 2010-2011 - CNGL, Dublin City University, Ireland
- 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
