PhD Topics

research interests:

• machine translation
• spoken language translation
• speech summarization
• representation of natural language expressions

open PhD topic areas:                                                                                              

• On-line Spoken Language Translation
• Deep Neural Networks for Machine Translation
• Semantic Databases to Support and Check Machine Translation
• Transfer Learning in NMT for Related and Less Related Languages
• Speech Processing for Summarization in Specific Domains

currently supervised PhD theses:

• Ing. Josef Jon - Exploring Diversity in Machine Translation (2022 - now)
• Mgr. Dávid Javorský - Global and Local Constraints for Neural Models of Natural Language Processing (2021 - now)
• Peter Polák - Robust Speech Translation (2020 - now)
• Sunit Bhattacharya - Exploring Deep Learning Representations in NLP (2019 - now)

defended PhD theses:

• Mgr. Dominik Macháček, Ph.D. - Multi-Source Simultaneous Speech Translation (2024)
• Mgr. Ivana Kvapilíková, Ph.D. - Towards Machine Translation based on Monolingual Texts (2024)
• Mgr. Dušan Variš, Ph..D. - Methods of Automatic Post-Editing of Machine Translation Output (2023)
• Ing. Tom Kocmi, Ph.D. - Exploring Benefits of Transfer Learning in Neural Machine Translation (2019)
• Mgr. Aleš Tamchyna, Ph.D. - Lexical and Morphological Choices in Machine Translation (2017)

research interests:

• readability
• reading comprehension
• plain language
• Digital Humanities

open PhD topics:

• evaluation and adaptation of selected readability formulas to Czech
• domain-sensitive readability assessment
• reading comprehension of "average" adults
• empirical background of Plain Czech
• automatic simplification of Czech according to the Easy To Read standards

currently supervised PhD theses:

• Mgr. Klára Bendová - Error classification in learners of Czech as a foreign language (2019 - now)             

research interests:

• dialogue systems
• natural language generation
• chatbots

open PhD topics:

• open-domain & structured dialogue systems
• accurate & explainable natural language generation
• dialogue systems and language generation evaluation
• other NLG/dialogue topics – talk to me

currently supervised PhD theses:

• Mgr. Nalin Kumar - Efficient methods for neural natural language generation systems (2024 - now)
• Mgr., M.Sc. Kristýna Onderková - Textual inference in natural language generation (2024 - now)
• Mgr. Patrícia Schmidtová - Semantic accuracy in natural language generation (2023 - now)
• Mgr. Ondřej Plátek - New Evaluation Metrics for Spoken Dialogue Systems (2021 - now)
• Sourabrata Mukherjee - Controllable natural language generation (2019 - now)

defended PhD theses:

• Ing. Zdeněk Kasner, Ph.D. - Domain Adaptation for Natural Language Generation (2024)
• Mgr. Vojtěch Hudeček, Ph.D. - Low resource methods for dialogue systems applications (2024)

research interests:

• semantic representation
• lexicons and ontologies
• morhology, syntax
• building language resources

open PhD topics:

• Deep Language Understanding by Deep Learning

defended PhD theses:

• Mgr. Jindřich Helcl - Non-Autoregressive Neural Machine Translation (2022)
• RNDr. Jana Straková, Ph.D. - Neural Network Based Named Entity Recognition (2017)
• Mgr. David Klusáček, Ph.D. - New Methods in Statistical Speech Recognition (2012)
• Mgr. Pavel Straňák, Ph.D. - Annotation of Multiword Expressions in the Prague Dependency Treebank (2010)
• RNDr. Jiří Mírovský, Ph.D. - Netgraph-A Tool for Searching in the Prague Dependency Treebank 2.0 (2008)
• RNDr. Václav Novák  - Semantic Network - Manual Annotation and its Evaluation (2008)
• doc. RNDr. Pavel Pecina, Ph.D. - Lexical Association Measures: Collocation Extraction (2008)
• RNDr. Jiří Semecký - Verb Valency Frames Disambiguation (2007)
• RNDr. Jan Cuřin - Statistical Methods in Czech-English Machine Translation (2006)
• RNDr. Martin Čmejrek, Ph.D. - Using Dependency Tree Structure for Czech-English MachineTranslation (2006)
• RNDr. Václav Klimeš, Ph.D. - Analytical and Tectogrammatical Analysis of a NaturalLanguage (2006)
• RNDr. Pavel Krbec, Ph.D. - Language Modeling for Speech Recognition of Czech (2006)
• RNDr. Pavel Květoň, Ph.D. - Rule -Based Morphological Disambiguation (2006)
• RNDr. Petr Podveský - Speech Recognition of Czech Using Finite-State Machines (2006)
• RNDr. Daniel Zeman, Ph.D. - Parsing with a Statistical Dependency Model (2004)
• RNDr. Kiril Ribarov - Automatic Building of a Dependency TreeThe Rule-Based Approach and Beyond (2004)
• Doc. Mgr. Barbora Vidová Hladká, Ph.D. - Czech Language Tagging (2000)

research interests:

• Optical Music Recognition
• Music Information Retrieval
• Bayesian models, non-parametric Bayesian models
• Neural networks for text modeling
• Multimodal (text/image) models

currently supervised PhD theses:

• Mgr. Adam Štefunko - Computational models of harmonic accompaniments (2023 - now)

research interests:

• legal texts processing
• digital humanities
• computer assisted language learning

open PhD topics:

• Artificial Neural Networks for Opinion Target Identification

currently supervised PhD theses:

• Mgr. Tomáš Polák - Optimizing comprehensibility and semantic accuracy in legal texts (2024 - now)

defended PhD theses:

• RNDr. Vincent Kríž, Ph.D. - Detecting semantic relations in texts and their integration with external data resources (2019)
• RNDr. Otakar Smrž, Ph.D. - Functional Arabic Morphology: Formal System and Implementation (2007)
• doc. Ing. Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Ph.D. - Valency Lexicon of Czech Verbs (2005)

research interests:

• word order
• gramar checking
• MT of related languages

defended PhD theses:

• Mgr. Jan Oldřich Krůza - Iteractive Improving of Transcribed Speech Recordings Exploiting Listener's Feedback (2021)
• Mgr. Natalia Klyueva - Linguistic Issues in Machine Translation between Czech and Russian (2015)
• Mgr. Petr Homola - Syntactic Analysis in Machine Translation (2009)
• doc. RNDr. Ondřej Bojar, Ph.D. - Exploiting Linguistic Data in Machine Translation (2008)

research interests:

• multilingual representations
• neural machine translation
• combining language and vision

currently supervised PhD theses:

• Mgr. Andrei-Alexandru Manea - Multimodality for multilingual natural language processing (2022 - now)   
• Mgr. Gianluca Vico - Culture-aware multilingual natural language processing (2023 - now)      

research interests:

• dependency syntax
• lexicon and lexical semantics
• semantic representation

currently supervised PhD theses:

• Mgr. Petra Barančíková - Sentences Paraphrasing for Czech MT Evaluation (2012 - now)

defended PhD theses:

• Mgr. et Mgr. Anna Vernerová, Ph.D. - Lexicographic treatment of the valency aspects of verbal diatheses (2019)
• Mgr. Jana Šindlerová, Ph.D. - Verbal Valency in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective (2018)
• RNDr. Eduard Bejček, Ph.D. - Automatic linking of lexicographic sources and corpus data (2015)
• Mgr. Václava Kettnerová, Ph.D. - Lexical-semantic Conversions in the Valency Lexicon (2012)

research interests:

• syntax and parsing
• interpreting neural networks

open PhD topics:

• Interpretation of Large Language Models (probing, causal tracing, sparse autoencoders, ...)

currently supervised PhD theses:

• Mgr. Tomáš Musil - Exploring natural language principles with respect to algorithms of deep neural networks (2017 - now)

defended PhD theses:

• Ing. Tomasz Limisiewicz - Exploring multilingual representations of language units in a shared vector space (2024)

research interests:

• information retrieval
• machine translation
• multimodal data processing
• natural language processing

open PhD topics:

• Multimodality in natural language processing

currently supervised PhD theses:

• Mgr. Christopher Brückner - Information extraction from domain-specific data (2023 - now)
• Mgr. Vojtěch Lanz - Document-level information extraction (2023 - now)
• Mgr. Jiří Mayer - Optical Music Recognition (2021 - now)
• Mgr. Michal Auersperger - Vector representation of words and text (2017 - now)

defended PhD theses:        

• Mgr. Mateusz Krubiński - Multimodal summarization (2024)
• Ing. Shadi Saleh - Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval in the Medical Domain (2020)
• Mgr. Jan Hajič, Ph.D. - Optical Recognition of Handwritten Music Notation (2019)
• Mgr. Jindřich Libovický, Ph.D. - Multimodality in Machine Translation (2019)
• Mgr. Petra Galuščáková, Ph.D. - Information retrieval and navigation in audio-visual archives (2018)  

research interests:

• morphosyntactic analysis
• natural language understanding
• multilingual and crosslingual approaches
• NLP deployment

currently supervised PhD theses:

• Mgr. Matěj Kripner - Advancing Reasoning Capabilities of Statistical Systems (2024 - now)

defended PhD theses:

• Mgr. Jakub Náplava - Natural Language Correction with Focus on Czech (2022)

research interests:

• derivational morphology
• word-formation
• syntax

open PhD topics:

• Modeling named entities across languages

currently supervised PhD theses:

• Mgr. Hana Hledíková - Word formation and syntactic-semantic properties of verbs in a comparative perspective (2022 - now)

defended PhD theses:        

• Mgr. Emil Svoboda - Modelling compounds for multilingual language data resources (2024)

research interests:

• resource-poor languages
• universal dependencies
• syntax and parsing
• morphology

currently supervised PhD theses:

• Mgr. Dima Taji - Deep Universal Dependencies (2022 - now)
• Mgr. Federica Gamba - Dealing with Latin Variability in Parsing (2022 - now)
• Minoo Nassajian - Multilingual Semantic Annotation with Focus on a Low-Resource Language (2021 - now)
• Mgr. Ing. Kira Droganova - Dependency Parsing beyond Simple Trees (2016 - now)

research interests:

• discourse structure
• information structure
• syntax

open PhD topics:

• Discourse structure

currently supervised PhD theses:

• Mariia Anisimova - Argumentation in speeches of the Security Council of the United Nations Organizations (2019 - now)

defended PhD theses:

• Mgr. Zuzanna Bedřichová, Ph.D. - Error Analysis of Czech Written Expression of the Romani Pupils in the 9th Grade of the Secondary Practical Schools Based on the Corpora ROMi (2015)
• PhDr. Kateřina Rysová, Ph.D. - On Word Order from the Communicative Point of View (2013)

research interests:

• machine learning in NLP
• language data resources
• dependency syntax
• word formation

open PhD topics:

• Computational Models of Word Formation

currently supervised PhD theses:

• Mgr. Vojtěch John - Morpheme-level language changes in time and space (2024 - now)
• Ing. Michal Olbrich - Computational Models of Competition in Natural Languages (2023 - now)
• Mgr. Abishek Stephen - Modeling Morpheme Flow among Languages (2023 - now)
• Mgr. Jonáš Vidra - Semi-supervised machine learning methods for developing derivational networks (2018 - now)

defended PhD theses:

• Mgr. Michal Novák, Ph.D. - Coreference from the Cross-lingual Perspective (2018)
• Mgr. Martin Popel, Ph.D. - Machine Translation Using Syntactic Analysis (2018)
• Mgr. Rudolf Rosa, Ph.D. - Discovering the structure of natural language sentences by semi-supervised methods (2018)
• M. Sc. Loganathan Ramasamy, Ph.D. - Parsing under-resourced languages: Cross-lingual transfer strategies for Indian languages (2014)
• Nathan David Green, Ph.D. - Improvements to Syntax-based Machine Translation using Ensemble Dependency Parsers (2013)
• RNDr. David Mareček, Ph.D. - Unsupervised Dependency Parsing (2012)