Current PhD advisors at ÚFAL and their advised PhD topics

  1. Doc. RNDr. Ondřej Bojar, Ph.D.
  2. Mgr. Silvie Cinková, Ph.D.
  3. Mgr. et Mgr. Ondřej Dušek, Ph.D.
  4. Prof. RNDr. Jan Hajič, Dr.
  5. Mgr. Jan Hajič, Ph.D.
  6. Mgr. Barbora Vidová Hladká, Ph.D. 
  7. Doc. RNDr. Vladislav Kuboň, Ph.D.
  8. Mgr. et Mgr. Jindřich Libovický, Ph.D.
  9. Doc. RNDr. Markéta Lopatková, Ph.D.
  10. RNDr. David Mareček, Ph.D.
  11. Doc. RNDr. Pavel Pecina, Ph.D
  12. RNDr. Milan Straka, Ph.D.
  13. Mgr. Magda Ševčíková, Ph.D.
  14. RNDr. Daniel Zeman, Ph.D.
  15. PhDr. Šárka Zikánová, Ph.D.
  16. Doc. Ing. Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Ph.D.

doc. RNDr. Ondřej Bojar, Ph.D.

 

research interests:

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

open PhD topics:                                                                                              

currently supervised PhD theses:

defended PhD theses:


Mgr. Silvie Cinková, Ph.D.

 

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)             

Mgr. et Mgr. Ondřej Dušek, Ph.D.

 

research interests:

  • dialogue systems
  • natural language generation
  • chatbots

open PhD topics:

  • Semantic accuracy in surface realization
  • combining chatbots and task-oriented dialogue systems
  • argumentative dialogue
  • explainable natural language generation
  • dialogue systems and language generation evaluation
  • other NLG/dialogue topics – talk to me

currently supervised PhD theses:

defended PhD theses:


prof. RNDr. Jan Hajič, Dr.

 

research interests:

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

open PhD topics:

defended PhD theses:


Mgr. Jan Hajič, Ph.D.

 

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. Barbora Vidová Hladká, Ph.D.

 

research interests:

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

open PhD topics:

defended PhD theses:


 

doc. RNDr. Vladislav Kuboň, Ph.D.

 

research interests:

  • word order
  • gramar checking
  • MT of related languages

defended PhD theses:


Mgr. et Mgr. Jindřich Libovický, Ph.D.

 

research interests:

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

 

currently supervised PhD theses:


doc. RNDr. Markéta Lopatková, Ph.D.

 

research interests:

  • dependency syntax
  • lexicon and lexical semantics
  • semantic representation

currently supervised PhD theses:

defended PhD theses:


RNDr. David Mareček, Ph.D.

 

research interests:

  • syntax and parsing
  • interpreting neural networks
  • machine translation
  • word associations

 

currently supervised PhD theses:

  • Ing. Tomasz Limisiewicz - Exploring multilingual representations of language units in a shared vector space (2019 - now)
  • Mgr. Tomáš Musil - Exploring natural language principles with respect to algorithms of deep neural networks (2017 - now)

 


doc. RNDr. Pavel Pecina, Ph.D.

 

research interests:

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

open PhD topics:

currently supervised PhD theses:

defended PhD theses:        


RNDr. Milan Straka, Ph.D.

 

research interests:

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

 

defended PhD theses:


Mgr. Magda Ševčíková, Ph.D.

 

research interests:

  • derivational morphology
  • word-formation
  • syntax

open PhD topics:

currently supervised PhD theses:

  • Mgr. Hana Hledíková - Word formation and syntactic-semantic properties of verbs in a comparative perspective (2022 - now)
  • Mgr. Emil Svoboda - Modelling compounds for multilingual language data resources (2020 - now)
  • Mgr. Adéla Kalužová - Formal representation of the word-formation process of compounding (2016 - now)  

RNDr. Daniel Zeman, Ph.D.

 

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)

PhDr. Šárka Zikánová, Ph.D.

 

research interests:

  • discourse structure
  • information structure
  • syntax

open PhD topics:

currently supervised PhD theses:

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

defended PhD theses:

 

 


doc. Ing. Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Ph.D.

 

research interests:

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

open PhD topics:

currently supervised PhD theses:

defended PhD theses: