Fred Jelinek Seminar Series

The history of Linguistic Mondays dates back to the 1980s and their original aim was to make both the students and the faculty members as well as the wider research community aware of the field of computational linguistics in general and of the results achieved by the members of our team in particular. During the years, with the growing awareness of the domain and with new trends appearing on the scene and with more master and doctoral students coming in, the scope of the topics introduced has broadened correspondingly, covering all aspects of the field from the basics of computational linguistics, its linguistic and formal background through corpora case studies and natural language processing applications such as machine translation and information retrieval up to the most modern trends including machine learning. It is also offers an excellent opportunity for PhD students to present their results and to receive a relevant response from leading experts in the field.

Within the regular Linguistic Mondays, special space is reserved approx. 4 times per academic year for talks given by leading specialists in the field of computational and formal linguistics and natural language processing. The invited speakers come from the most prominent research centers in Europe or outside this geographic region, and their involvemenet in the Series is also an opportunity for all interested participants for establishing contacts with the visiting professors and their teams. The Series is named after Professor Frederick Jelinek (18.11.1932 in former Czechoslovakia - 14.9.2010 in the USA), a honorary doctor of Charles University and a former prominent researcher at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center and Johns Hopkins University, who was a pioneering figure in the field of speech recognition and statistical methods in natural language processing, After the political changes in Czechoslovakia in 1989, professor F. Jelinek was regularly invited by our Institute to give courses and to supervise our students and his contribution to the development of the field of computational linguistics at Charles University is immense.

Archive

Video archive is available on our dedicated ÚFAL video lectures site.