Resume of Daniel Zeman

Personal and family data

Born: December 21, 1971, Praha (Czechoslovakia)
Married: April 16, 1999, Praha (Czechia)
Sex: Male
Citizenship: Czech

• Father: Vladimír Zeman (1950) has an audio technology business.
• Mother: Olga Zemanová, née Tajovská (1951) is music teacher.
• Two brothers: Michal (1975) and Pavel (1977).
• Spouse: Klára Zemanová, née Matoušková (16.9.1972), has a board games business.
• Children: Zuzana (2000), Lucie (2004) and Martin (2006).

Affiliation

ÚFAL MFF UK (Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University), Malostranské náměstí 25, Praha 1, CZ-11800

Education

2005, Univerzita Karlova (Charles University), Praha

Obtained the RNDr. title.

13.1.2005, Univerzita Karlova (Charles University), Praha

Obtained Ph.D. in mathematical linguistics

1999, May-July: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA)

visiting scholar at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science. Invited by Aravind Joshi to work together with Anoop Sarkar on automatic acquiring of subcategorization frames from the Prague Dependency Treebank.

1998, July-August: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (Maryland, USA)

participation in the summer workshop Core NLP Technology Applicable to Multiple Languages at the Center for Language and Speech Processing.

1997 to 2005: Univerzita Karlova (Charles University), Praha

Graduate student of mathematical linguistics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. The PhD thesis topic: Parsing with a Statistical Dependency Model. Special interest in syntax.

1990 to 1997: Univerzita Karlova, Praha

undergraduate study of Computer Science at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. Regular study finished with the fifth year on October 10, 1995. Thesis and final examination in the field of Computational and Formal Linguistics. The exam was passed in June 1997. Obtained the title "magistr" ("Mgr.", an equivalent to MSc.).

1986 to 1990: Akademické gymnázium (The Academical Grammar School), Praha

regular study with specialization in programming. In 1990 finished with the leaving examination in Mathematics, Programming, Czech and German Languages.

Teaching experience

2001-2002: Programování (Programming), workshop leader, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University.

2000-2005: Počítače a přirozený jazyk (Computers and Natural Language), lecturer, faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University.

1999-2005: Počítačové zpracování češtiny (Automatic Processing of Czech); since winter 2003/2004 Počítačové zpracování přirozeného jazyka (Automatic Processing of Natural Language), lecturer and workshop leader, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University.

Professional positions

2006: University of Maryland, College Park.

Awarded Fulbright-Masaryk Fellowship (January to July), postdoc (July to December). I worked with Philip Resnik at the University of Maryland, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, Computational Linguistics & Information Processing.

since 2000: Univerzita Karlova, Praha

Researcher, Center for Computational Linguistics, since 2004 Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics. Research interests: statistical parsing of Czech, dependency modeling.

1995 to 1999: Olt s.r.o., Praha

after finishing the regular MSc. study at Charles University, I started my cooperation with the Prague software firm Olt s.r.o. I have been developing parts of their programs for Windows NT, e.g. a built-in text editor (in C++).

1994: SSaG s.r.o., Praha

during the study, from April to November 1994 I worked as programmer.

Awards

• Fulbright-Masaryk Fellowship (January 9 - July 8, 2006, University of Maryland, College Park)

Publications and talks

I do not update this section regularly. An up-to-date list of publications can be found here.

• Daniel Zeman, Zdeněk Žabokrtský: Improving Parsing Accuracy by Combining Diverse Dependency Parsers. In: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT 2005). Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2005.
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Cited in:
• Václav Klimeš: Analytical and Tectogrammatical Analysis of a Natural Language (Ph.D. thesis). Univerzita Karlova, Praha, 2006.
• Jiří Hana, Daniel Zeman: Manual for Morphological Annotation, Revision for the Prague Dependency Treebank 2.0. ÚFAL Technical Report No. 2005-27, 42 pages. Univerzita Karlova, Praha, 2005.
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Cited in:
• Barbora Vidová Hladká, Ondřej Bojar, Jan Hajič, Jiří Hana, Jaroslava Hlaváčová, Jiří Mírovský, Jan Votrubec: Průvodce Českým akademickým korpusem 1.0. Univerzita Karlova, Praha, 2006.
• Daniel Zeman: Neprojektivity v Pražském závislostním korpusu (PDT). CKL/ÚFAL Technical Report No. 2004-22, 35 pages. Univerzita Karlova, Praha, 2004.
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• Daniel Zeman: Parsing with a Statistical Dependency Model (PhD thesis). Univerzita Karlova, Praha, 2004.
  (available here)
Cited in:
• Václav Klimeš: Analytical and Tectogrammatical Analysis of a Natural Language (Ph.D. thesis). Univerzita Karlova, Praha, 2006.
• Keith Hall, Václav Novák: Corrective Modeling for Non-Projective Dependency Parsing. In: Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT-05), pp. 42-52. The Association for Computational Linguistics, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2005.
• Eva Hajičová, Jiří Havelka, Petr Sgall, Kateřina Veselá, Daniel Zeman: Issues of Projectivity in the Prague Dependency Treebank. In: Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, volume 81, pages 5-22. ISSN 0032-6585. Univerzita Karlova, Praha, 2004.
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Cited in:
• Keith Hall, Václav Novák: Corrective Modeling for Non-Projective Dependency Parsing. In: Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT-05), pp. 42-52. The Association for Computational Linguistics, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2005.
• 2002, October: Daniel Zeman: How to Decrease Performance of a Statistical Parser. In: Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, volume 78, pages 53-62. Univerzita Karlova, Praha, 2002.
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• 2002, August, Coling: Daniel Zeman: Can Subcategorization Help a Statistical Dependency Parser? In: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2002). Zhongyang Yanjiuyuan (Academia Sinica), Taibei, Tchaj-wan, 2002.
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Cited in:
• Ondřej Bojar: Automatizovaná extrakce lexikálně syntaktických údajů z korpusu (master thesis). Univerzita Karlova, Praha, 2002.
• Péter Dienes: Statistical parsing with non-local dependencies (PhD Dissertation). Saarbrücken Dissertations in Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, vol. 20. Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, 2005.
• 2001, October 19: talk and paper at the International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT) 2001, Beijing. Title: How Much Will a RE-based Preprocessor Help a Statistical Parser?
Cited in:
• Václav Klimeš: Analytical and Tectogrammatical Analysis of a Natural Language (Ph.D. thesis). Univerzita Karlova, Praha, 2006.
• Ondřej Bojar: Automatizovaná extrakce lexikálně syntaktických údajů z korpusu (master thesis). Univerzita Karlova, Praha, 2002.
• 2001: Parsing with Regular Expressions: A Minute to Learn, a Lifetime to Master. In: Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, volume 75, pages 29-37. Univerzita Karlova, Praha 2001.

Cited in:
• Ondřej Bojar: Automatizovaná extrakce lexikálně syntaktických údajů z korpusu (master thesis). Univerzita Karlova, Praha, 2002.
• 2000, August 1: talk and paper at the conference Coling 2000, Saarbrücken. Title: Automatic Extraction of Subcategorization Frames for Czech (co-author: Anoop Sarkar; a modified version of the Athens paper).

Cited in:
• Anna Korhonen: Using Semantically Motivated Estimates to Help Subcategorization Acquisition. In: Proceedings of the Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora. Hong Kong, China, 2000.
• Anna Korhonen, Genevieve Gorrell, Diana McCarthy: Statistical Filtering and Subcategorization Frame Acquisition. In: Proceedings of the Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora. Hong Kong, China, 2000.
• Katia-Lîda Kermanidou, Manolis Maragoudakîs, Nikos Fakôtakîs, Geôrgios Kokkinakîs: Influence of Conditional Independence Assumption on Verb Subcategorization Detection. In: Václav Matoušek et al. (eds.): "Proceedings of TSD 2001" , Springer LNAI 2166, pp. 62-69. Železná Ruda, Czechia, 2001.
• Anna Korhonen: Subcategorization Acquisition (PhD thesis). Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, 2002.
• 2000, May 31: talk and paper at the conference LREC 2000, Athîna. Title: Learning Verb Subcategorization from Corpora: Counting Frame Subsets (co-author: Anoop Sarkar).
• 1999, July 29: talk at IRCS, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA). Title: Learning Verb Subcategorization from Corpora.
• 1998, September: poster presentation at the conference "Text, Speech and Dialogue", Brno (Czechia). Title: Parsing Czech with Statistics.
• 1998: Core Natural Language Processing Technology Applicable to Multiple Languages. The Workshop 98 Final Report. At: http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/ws98/projects/nlp/report/. Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (Maryland, USA).

Cited in:
• Michael Collins: Head-Driven Statistical Models for Natural Language Parsing (PhD Dissertation). University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1999.
• Barbora Hladká: Czech Language Tagging (PhD Dissertation). Univerzita Karlova, Praha, 2000.
• Tomáš Holan: Nástroje pro vývoj závislostních analyzátorů přirozených jazyků s volným slovosledem (disertační práce). Univerzita Karlova, Praha, 2001.
• Vladislav Kuboň: Problems of Robust Parsing of Czech (PhD Dissertation). Univerzita Karlova, Praha, 2001.
• 1998: A Statistical Approach to Parsing of Czech. In: Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, volume 69, pages 29-37. Univerzita Karlova, Praha (Czechia).
  Cited in:
• Barbora Hladká: Czech Language Tagging (PhD Dissertation). Univerzita Karlova, Praha, 2000.
• Péter Dienes: Statistical parsing with non-local dependencies (PhD Dissertation). Saarbrücken Dissertations in Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, vol. 20. Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, 2005.
• 1998, June: talk at the conference "Week of Doctoral Students", Praha (Czechia). Title: Parsing Natural Languages: Statistical Methods.
• 1997: Pravdepodobnostni model vyznamovych zapisu vet. (In Czech - master degree thesis.) Matematicko-fyzikalni fakulta, Univerzita Karlova, Praha (Czechia).

Cited in:
• Markéta Straňáková: Homonymie předložkových skupin v češtině a možnost jejich automatického zpracování (PhD thesis). Univerzita Karlova, Praha, 2001.
• Ondřej Bojar: Automatizovaná extrakce lexikálně syntaktických údajů z korpusu (master thesis). Univerzita Karlova, Praha, 2002.

Reviews

• Reviewer COLING-ACL 2006 (section Parsing), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
• Reviewer (section Parsing), COLING 2002, Academia Sinica, Taibei, Taiwan.
• Reviewer, ACL 2002, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Reviewer, ACL 1999, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
• Reviewer, EACL 1999, Universitetet i Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

Languages

German, English, Russian (sufficient knowledge for communication, although not fluent). Spanish (basic knowledge). Of course, fluent in Czech and able to understand Slovak (well) and Polish (a little).

Programming environments

Programming languages:

Perl, C++, Visual Basic

Operating systems:

Windows, Linux

Other interests

travel, alpine tourism, canoeing; languages, computers

References

Doc. Jan Hajič
Ústav formální a aplikované lingvistiky
Matematicko-fyzikální fakulta
Univerzita Karlova
Malostranské náměstí 25
CZ-11800 Praha
Czechia
tel. +420-221-914-257
hajic -at- ufal -dot- mff -dot- cuni -dot- cz

Prof. Frederick Jelinek
Center for Language and Speech Processing
Johns Hopkins University
Barton Hall
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
USA
tel. +1-410-516-7730
jelinek -at- jhu -dot- edu

Prof. Philip Resnik
Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
University of Maryland
3143 A. V. Williams Building
College Park, MD 20742
USA
tel. +1-301-405-6760
resnik -at- umiacs -dot- umd -dot- edu