Otakar Smrž, Ph.D.
Personal Information
LinkedIn:	cz.linkedin.com/in/otakarsmrz
E-mail:	otakar.smrz seznam.cz
Education
2001 – 2007	Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague Ph.D. studies in Mathematical Linguistics	[www]
2004 – 2005	Department of Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania Fulbright-Masaryk Fellowship grantee	[www]
2000 – 2001	Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague one year of MSc. studies in Informatics
1996 – 2001	Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague MSc. degree in Physics, summa cum laude, master's thesis in Geophysics
1992 – 1996	Gymnázium Josefa Ressela Chrudim grammar school graduation
Employment
January 2005 – present	Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University researcher, project coordinator	[www]
September 2005 – February 2006	Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of West Bohemia lecturer	[www]
September 2004 – June 2005	Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania visiting scholar and researcher	[www]
October 2001 – December 2004	Center for Computational Linguistics, Charles University researcher, project coordinator	[www]
January 2002 – December 2006	Institute of Comparative Linguistics, Charles University programmer of tools for dictionary compilation
March 2001 – November 2001	Language Centre David Holiš webmaster and system administrator
IT Experience
Programming Languages:	Perl (experienced), PHP, C, Pascal, Fortran Haskell (experienced), Oz, Lisp TeX (dictionary typesetting)
Programming Tools:	Perl modules and libraries, TrEd contexts and macros, PPM, POD Haskell libraries, Cabal, Haddock, QuickCheck TeX/LaTeX packages, ArabTeX, Beamer, Listings, PSTricks, PGF XML technology (XPath, XSLT, DTD, XSD), HTML, CSS, XSH Matlab/Octave, IDL
Operating Systems:	Red Hat Linux, MS Windows
Application Software:	Emacs, SVN/CVS, TextPad, WinEdt, Servant Salamander, MS Office, TrEd
Language Skills
English	fluent (TOEFL in Sep 2002, total score 267, essay rating 4.0)
Arabic	fluent (Basic State Exam in Dec 2000, with high distinction)
Farsi	elementary (most recent study)
Korean	conversational (university courses in 2002, previous experience in 2001 and earlier study)
German	conversational (six non-recent years of study)
French	passive (experience in 2002, earlier one semester of study)
Russian	passive (two non-recent years of study)
Slovak	passive (perfect comprehension)
Czech	fluent (native language)
Recent Projects
Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank	research project of Charles University in Prague with application in machine translation scientific contributions, coordination of international working group	[www] [www]
ElixirFM – Functional Arabic Morphology	doctoral thesis in Mathematical Linguistics original theory and implementation	[www] [pdf] [html]
Encode Arabic	Haskell [Encode] and Perl [Encode::Arabic] libraries for encodings of Arabic	[www] [cgi] [pdf]
MorphoTrees	methodology and implementation of efficient morphological annotation	[gif] [gif] [gif] [pdf]
ArabTeX Plus	extensions of ArabTeX concerning its notation and the support for colorizing	[www] [pdf] [pdf]
Haskell and Domain-Specific Languages	gradute course for the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University lecturing, original design of the course	[www] [pdf]
ANLP – Arabic Natural Language Processing	undergradute course for the Middle Eastern studies, University of West Bohemia lecturing, original design of the course	[www] [pdf]
Qamus	open project of compilation of Arabic-Czech and Czech-Arabic dictionary computer method design, resource compilation, programming and data processing	[html/xml]
ArabSpell	spell-checker of Arabic following formal rules	[www] [pdf]
... projects in Oriental languages	processing of dictionaries, typesetting of books etc. design and implementation of tools for public use
Printed Publications
Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank: A Word on the Million Words	Otakar Smrž, Viktor Bielický, Iveta Kouřilová, Jakub Kráčmar, Jan Hajič, Petr Zemánek LREC 2008 Workshop on Arabic and Local Languages, Marrakech, Morocco, 2008	[pdf] [www]
Building the Valency Lexicon of Arabic Verbs	Viktor Bielický, Otakar Smrž LREC 2008 Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 2008	[pdf] [www]
Functional Arabic Morphology: Dissertation Summary	Otakar Smrž Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics 88, 2007	[pdf] [www]
Functional Arabic Morphology. Formal System and Implementation	Otakar Smrž Doctoral Thesis, Charles University in Prague, July 2007	[pdf] [pdf-short]
ElixirFM – Implementation of Functional Arabic Morphology	Otakar Smrž Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages, ACL 2007, Prague	[pdf]
Tips and Tricks of the Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank	Otakar Smrž The Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT, London, UK, 2006	[pdf-paper] [pdf-slides]
Encode Arabic: Exercise in Functional Parsing (under review)	Otakar Smrž (unpublished manuscript)	[pdf]
Information Structure with the Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank (under review)	Otakar Smrž, Petr Zemánek, Jakub Kráčmar, Viktor Bielický Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic, College Park, USA	[pdf-paper] [pdf-slides]
The Other Arabic Treebank: Prague Dependencies and Functions (under review)	Otakar Smrž, Jan Hajič Arabic Computational Linguistics: Current Implementations, CSLI Publications (to appear)	[pdf]
Feature-Based Tagger of Approximations of Functional Arabic Morphology	Jan Hajič, Otakar Smrž, Tim Buckwalter, Hubert Jin Proceedings of TLT 2005, Barcelona, Spain, 2005	[pdf-paper] [pdf-slides]
Learning to Use the Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank	Otakar Smrž, Petr Pajas, Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Jan Hajič, Jiří Mírovský, Petr Němec Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XIX, John Benjamins, 2007	[pdf] [ps]
MorphoTrees of Arabic and Their Annotation in the TrEd Environment	Otakar Smrž, Petr Pajas NEMLAR Conference Proceedings, Cairo, Egypt, 2004	[pdf] [ps] [pps]
Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank: Development in Data and Tools	Jan Hajič, Otakar Smrž, Petr Zemánek, Jan Šnaidauf, Emanuel Beška NEMLAR Conference Proceedings, Cairo, Egypt, 2004	[pdf] [ps] [pps]
Arabic Syntactic Trees: from Constituency to Dependency	Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Otakar Smrž EACL'03 Research Note, Budapest, Hungary, 2003	[pdf] [ps] [pps]
Sherds from an Arabic Treebanking Mosaic	Otakar Smrž, Petr Zemánek Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics 78, 2002	[pdf] [www]
Searching for Non-linearities in Natural Language	Kiril Ribarov, Otakar Smrž 7th Experimental Chaos Conference, San Diego, USA, 2002	[pdf]
External Tools Not Only for ArabTeX Documents	Karel Mokrý, Otakar Smrž International Symposium on Processing of Arabic, Manouba, Tunisia, 2002	[pdf] [ps] [pps]
Earthquake of Athens, 1999: Study of Aftershocks	Otakar Smrž Master's Thesis, Charles University in Prague, 2001	[pdf-I] [pdf-II] [zip/ps-I+II]
Lectures & Reviews
Programming the Arabic Treebank	Otakar Smrž Invited Lecture, National Centre for Language Technology, Dublin City University, 2008	[pdf]
Demo Proposal: Extensible Integrated Treebank Annotation Environment	Otakar Smrž Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages, Stanford, 2007	[pdf]
Functional Arabic Morphology: Principles of Design (Funkční arabská morfologie)	Otakar Smrž Research Report, Formal Linguistics Seminar, Charles University in Prague, 2006	[pdf-slides] [pdf]
Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank (Prague Treebanking for Everyone)	Otakar Smrž Invited Lecture, Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series 21, Prague, 2006	[pdf-slides] [pdf] [www]
Impressive Haskell	Otakar Smrž Invited Lecture, Seminar of the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Kvilda, 2006	[pdf] [www]
Yet Another Introduction to Arabic NLP	Otakar Smrž Lecture Notes, Faculty of Philosophy, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, 2005	[pdf] [www]
Functional Morphology by Markus Forsberg and Aarne Ranta	Otakar Smrž LDC Institute Presentation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, 2005	[pdf] [pps] [www]
Review of Finite State Morphology by Kenneth R. Beesley and Lauri Karttunen	Otakar Smrž Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics 81, 2004	[pdf] [www]
Review of A Student Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic by Eckehard Schulz	Iveta Kouřilová, Otakar Smrž The Linguist List, online issue 16.2221, 2005	[www] [www]
Intro to Natural Language Processing (in Czech)	Otakar Smrž Presentation of PADT, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, 2003	[pps] [www]
Scripts of Ancient Orient and Modern Information Technology (in Czech + English)	Otakar Smrž Orientalia Antiqua Nova, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, 2006	[pdf] [www]
International Meetings
October 2006	The British Computer Society, London, UK The Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT
September 2006	Portland, OR, USA International Conference on Functional Programming 2006
August–September 2006	International Center for Persian Studies, Tehran, Iran Elementary course in Farsi
August 2006	Faculty of Literature and Human Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Invited lecture on Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank
June 2006	University of Maryland, College Park, USA Conference on Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic
December 2005	University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain The Fourth Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories TLT 2005
August 2005	Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK ESSLLI 2005 European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
July 2005	Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA CLSP Workshop '05 on Parsing Arabic Dialects (visiting participant)
June 2005	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA ACL 2005 Conference
May 2005	University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA Chicago 2005 Machine Learning Summer School
April 2005	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA XIXth Arabic Linguistics Symposium
September 2004	Cairo, Egypt NEMLAR International Conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools
November–December 2003	Yemen Language Center, Sanaa, Yemen Individual advanced course in Arabic
July 2003	Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic XVIIth International Congress of Linguists
July 2003	Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA CLSP Workshop '03 Summer School in Natural Language Processing
May 2003	Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Prague-Penn Arabic Treebanking Workshop
April 2003	Budapest, Hungary EACL'03 Conference
December 2002	Pisa, Italy ISLE/EAGLES Workshop, CNR meeting on Arabic
July 2002	University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA Penn-Prague Arabic Treebanking Workshop, ACL'03 Conference
May 2002	Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain LREC'02 Conference
April 2002	University of Manouba, Tunis, Tunisia International Symposium on Processing of Arabic
July–August 2001	International House, Seoul, South Korea Korean language and culture lessons
June 2001	Smolenice Castle, Slovak Republic Czech-Slovak Seismological Days
July–August 1999	Bourguiba Institute of Modern Languages, Tunis, Tunisia 35th Intensive Summer Course in Arabic
Other Information
Non-profit organizations	Opus arabicum, former vice-chairman and webmaster	[www]
	ACL SIG on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages	[www]
Fellowships & grants	Fulbright-Masaryk Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, September 2004 – June 2005	[www]
	Grant Agency of Charles University in Prague, project UK 373/2005, 2005 – 2006	[www]