Magda Ševčíková Magda Razímová
Main Research Interests
- word-formation, conversion, derivational morphology of Czech and other languages
- DeriNet project, Universal Derivations collection
- morphological segmentation of Czech and other languages
- Universal Segmentations project
- dependency syntax, deep vs. surface syntactic structure, valency of verbs; modality (verbal mood, sentence modality)
- named entities
Projects
Principal Investigator of the projects:
Word-formation structure of Czech words: a data-based research (GA ČR 19-14534S, supported by the Czech Science Foundation; 2019-2021) An Integrated Approach to Derivational and Inflectional Morphology of Czech (GA ČR 16-18177S, supported by the Czech Science Foundation; 2016-2018) Kontrastivní pohled na moderní českou morfologii s ohledem na frankofonní mluvčí (MŠMT Mobility France 7AMB16FR048, supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic) Selected derivational relations for automatic processing of Czech (GA ČR P406/12/P175, a postdoc project supported by the Czech Science Foundation; 2012-2014) Systematic Description of Czech Syntax Based on Language Data from the Prague Dependency Treebank (GA UK 7643/2007, supported by the Grant Agency of Charles University; 2007-2008)
Curriculum Vitae
Current position:
- Associate Professor at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague
- member of European Language Resources Association (ELRA; since 2006), Societas Linguistica Europea (SLE; 2006-2007 and since 2013), Linguistic Society of America (LSA; since 2019), Jazykovědné sdružení ČR (since 2021)
Academic service:
- Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR):
- chair of the evaluation panel Linguistics and Literature (P406) - 04/2023 to 03/2025
- member of the discipline committee for Social Sciences and Humanities (OK4) - 04/2021 to 03/2025
- vice-chair of the evaluation panel Linguistics and Literature (P406) - 04/2021 to 03/2023
- Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC): Scientific Committee member - LREC 2020, LREC 2022
- Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE): Programme Committee member - since 2017
- SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics: Advisory Board member - since 2024
Education and qualifications:
2025: Associate Professor (docent) in Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
Habilitation thesis: A paradigmatic account of word formation: Conversion between noun and verb in Czech 2009: Ph.D. in Mathematical Linguistics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague
Supervisor: Prof. J. Panevová PhD thesis: Functions of the conditional mood from the viewpoint of the level of meaning (in Czech; pdf) 2004: Mgr. in Czech and German Philology at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University, Prague
Supervisor: Prof. J. Panevová Master thesis: Functions of the adverbal dative in deep and surface syntax of Czech sentences (in Czech; pdf)
Teaching
Courses at MFF UK:
- Introduction to Formal Linguistics (Úvod do formální lingvistiky), NPFL006
- Variability of languages in time and space (Variabilita jazyků v čase a prostoru), NPFL100
- with Anna Nedoluzhko and Zdeněk Žabokrtský
Courses at FF UK:
- Modern Linguistic Descriptions of English (Moderní lingvistické popisy angličtiny), link to SIS
Selected Bibliography
- Google Scholar
- ORCID: 0000-0003-4780-7912
- Scopus ID: 23393759800
- Researcher ID: P-5906-2017
Books
- Ševčíková, M.: Conversion between noun and verb in Czech: A paradigmatic approach. Springer, in press.
- Štícha, F., Bílková, J., Giger, M., Kolářová, I., Kopáčková, L., Lukešová, L., Osolsobě, K., Panevová, J., Petkevič, V., Půda, A., Ševčíková, M., Veselý, L., Vondráček, M.: Velká akademická gramatika spisovné češtiny II. Morfologie. Praha: Academia, 2021. ISBN 978-80-200-3185-3.
- Panevová, J., Hajičová, E., Kettnerová, V., Lopatková, M., Mikulová, M., Ševčíková, M.: Mluvnice současné češtiny 2. Syntax na základě anotovaného korpusu. Praha: Karolinum, 2014. ISBN 978-80-246-2497-6.
- Ševčíková, M.: Funkce kondicionálu z hlediska významové roviny. Praha: Ústav formální a aplikované lingvistiky, 2009, 179 stran. ISBN: 978-80-904175-2-6. [pdf]
Book chapters
- Ševčíková, M. Hledíková, H.: Paradigms in English and Czech noun/verb conversion: A contrastive study of corresponding lexemes. In A. E. Ruz et al. (eds.): Paradigms in Word Formation: Theory and Applications. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2022, pp. 181–214. ISBN 9789027211583.
- Panevová, J., Ševčíková, M.: Sonda do české slovotvorby: Substantiva utvořená od sloves nebo slovesa utvořená od substantiv? In D. Jamborova Lemay et al. (eds.): Des langues calculables à l’homme incalculable. Paris: Editions des archives contemporaines, 2021, s. 127–135. ISBN 9782813004260.
- Kolářová, V., Ševčíková, M.: Substantiva tvořená od sloves se supletivními kořeny: Korpusová studie deverbativ s kořeny klád a lož. In Lingvistika - korpus – empirie. Praha: Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, 2020, s. 165–177. ISBN 978-80-88211-13-6.
- Ševčíková, M.: The suffixes -ismus and -ita in nouns in Czech. In P. ten Hacken & R. Panocová (eds.): The Interaction of Borrowing and Word Formation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020, pp. 162–195. ISBN 978-1-4744-4820-8.
- Straková, J., Straka, M., Ševčíková, M., Žabokrtský, Z.: Czech Named Entity Corpus. In J. Pustejovsky & N. Ide (eds.): Handbook of Linguistic Annotation. Springer 2017, pp. 855–873. ISBN 978-94-024-0879-9.
- Panevová, J., Ševčíková, M.: Delimitation of information between grammatical rules and lexicon. In K. Gerdes et al. (eds.), Dependency Linguistics. Recent advances in linguistic theory using dependency structures. Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today Series, 215. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014, pp. 33–52.
Journal articles (incl. LNCS/LNAI)
- Hledíková, H. & Ševčíková, M.: Conversion in languages with different morphological structures: a semantic comparison of English and Czech. Morphology, 34, 2024, pp. 73–102. ISSN 1871-5621. [link]
- Ševčíková, M., Hledíková, H., Kyjánek, L. & Staňková, A.: Semantics of noun/verb conversion in Czech: Lessons learned from corpus data annotation. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 20, 2023, pp. 74–92. ISSN 1336-782X. [link]
- Ševčíková, M.: Action meanings in noun/verb conversion: Native and foreign word-formation in Czech. Linguistica Pragensia, 32, 2022, s. 173–197. ISSN 1805-9635. [link]
- Ševčíková, M.: Bezpříponová substantiva a vyjadřování vidového protikladu u příbuzných sloves. Slovo a slovesnost, 82, 2021, s. 263–288. ISSN 0037-7031. [link]
- Ševčíková, M.: Action nouns vs. nouns as bases for denominal verbs in Czech: A case study on directionality in derivation. Word Structure, 14, 2021, pp. 97–128. ISSN 1750-1245. [link] [pdf]
- Lango, M., Žabokrtský, Z., Ševčíková, M.: Semi-Automatic Construction of Word-Formation Networks. Language Resources and Evaluation, 54, 2021, pp. 3-32, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-019-09484-2. ISSN 1574-020X. [link]
- Žabokrtský, Z., Zeman, D., Ševčíková, M.: Sentence Meaning Representations across Languages: What Can We Learn from Existing Frameworks? Computational Linguistics, 46, 2020, pp. 605–665. ISSN 0891-2017. [link] [pdf]
- Panevová, J., Hajičová, E., Kettnerová, V., Kolářová, V., Lopatková, M., Mikulová, M., Ševčíková, M.: Funkční generativní popis – rámec pro konzistentní popis gramatiky. Naše řeč, 103, s. 55–78. ISSN 0027-8203.
- Bodnár, J, Žabokrtský, Z., Ševčíková, M.: Semi-supervised Induction of Morpheme Boundaries in Czech Using a Word-Formation Network. In LNCS / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2020). Berlin, Springer, 2020, pp. 189–196. ISSN: 0302-9743.
- Ševčíková, M., Kyjánek, L.: Introducing Semantic Labels into the DeriNet Network. Jazykovedný časopis, 70, 2019, pp. 412–423. ISSN 0021-5597. [link]
- Ševčíková, M., Panevová, J.: Hranice flektivní a derivační morfologie: Případ předpony po- u českých sloves. Slovo a slovesnost, 79, 2018, s. 171-198. ISSN 0037-7031.
- Ševčíková, M., Panevová, J.: Derivation of Czech verbs and the category of aspect. Linguistica Copernicana, 15, 2018, pp. 79–93. ISSN 2080-1068.
- Ševčíková, M.: Modelling Morphographemic Alternations in Derivation of Czech. The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, 110, 2018, pp. 7-42, ISSN 0032-6585. [link]
- Ševčíková, M., Žabokrtský, Z., Vidra, J., Straka, M.: Lexikální síť DeriNet: elektronický zdroj pro výzkum derivace v češtině. Časopis pro moderní filologii, 98, 2016, s. 62-76. ISSN: 0008-7386.
- Ševčíková, M.: Morphology within the Multi-layered Annotation Scenario of the Prague Dependency Treebank. In C. Mahlow & M. Piotrowski (eds.): Systems and Frameworks for Computational Morphology. Vol. 537 of the Communications in Computer and Information Science Series. Springer, 2015, pp. 1–26. ISSN: 1865-0929, ISBN: 978-3-319-23978-1. [link]
- Ševčíková, M.: Zjišťování slovotvorné produktivity z korpusových dat: přípony odvozující názvy vlastností. Naše řeč, 97, 2014, s. 228–240. ISSN: 0027-8203.
- Ševčíková, M.: Kvalitativní a nekvalitativní význam substantiv s příponou -ost. Korpus – gramatika – axiologie, 9, 2014, s. 41–55. ISSN: 1804-137X.
- Ševčíková, M.. Mírovský, J.: Sentence Modality Assignment in the Prague Dependency Treebank. In P. Sojka et al. (eds.), LNCS / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2012). Berlin, Springer, 2012, pp. 56–63. ISSN: 0302-9743, ISBN: 978-3-642-32789-6.
- Panevová, J., Ševčíková, M.: Jak se počítají substantiva v češtině: poznámky ke kategorii čísla. Slovo a slovesnost, 72, 2011, s. 163–176. ISSN: 0037-7031.
- Ševčíková, M., Panevová, J., Smejkalová, L.: Specificity of the number of nouns in Czech and its annotation in Prague Dependency Treebank. The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, 96, 2011, pp. 27-47. ISSN: 0032-6585.
- Ševčíková, M.: Kondicionál přítomný jako součást explicitních performativních formulí. Korpus – gramatika – axiologie, 1, 2010, s. 41–62. ISSN: 1804-137X. [link]
- Ševčíková, M., Žabokrtský, Z., Krůza, O.: Named Entities in Czech: Annotating Data and Developing NE Tagger. In: V. Matoušek et al. (eds.), LNCS / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2007). Berlin: Springer, 2007, pp. 188–195. ISSN: 0302-9743.
- Razímová, M., Žabokrtský, Z.: Morphological Meanings in the Prague Dependency Treebank. In. V. Matoušek et al. (eds.), LNCS / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2005). Berlin: Springer, 2005, pp. 148–155. ISSN: 0302-9743.
Conference and workshop papers
- Svoboda, E., Ševčíková, M. PaReNT (Parent Retrieval Neural Tool): A Deep Dive into Word Formation Across Languages. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024). Torino: ELRA and ICCL, 2024, pp. 12611–12621. [link]
- Svoboda, E., Ševčíková, M.: Compounds in Universal Dependencies: A Survey in Five European Languages. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual Natural Language Processing. Stroudsburg: ACL, 2024, pp. 88–99. [link]
- Ševčíková, M.: Nominal tendency in the non-native vocabulary of Czech. Presented at the 2024 Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, New York City, January 4-7. [poster]
- Lango, M., Ševčíková, M., Žabokrtský, Z.: Semi-Automatic Construction of Word-Formation Networks (for Polish and Spanish). In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018). Miyazaki: ELRA, 2018, pp. 1853-1860, ISBN 979-10-95546-00-9. [link]
- Ševčíková, M.: Enrichment of a lexical network of Czech derived words by exploiting inflectional paradigms. In: Abstracts of the 50th Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2017). Zürich, Universität Zürich, 2017, pp. 708–709. [link]
- Ševčíková, M., Panevová, J., Pognan, P.: Inflectional and derivational paradigm of verbs in Czech: the role of the category of aspect. In First Workshop on Pradigmatic Word Formation Modeling – Booklet of Abstracts. Toulouse: Université Toulouse.
- Ševčíková, M., Limburská, A.: Enrichment of a lexical network of Czech derived words by exploiting inflectional paradigms. In: Abstracts of the 49th Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2016). Naples, University of Naples Federico II, 2016, pp. 714–715.
- Žabokrtský, Z., Ševčíková, M., Straka, M., Vidra, J., Limburská, A.: Merging Data Resources for Inflectional and Derivational Morphology in Czech. In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016). Portorož: ELRA, 2016, pp. 1307-1314. ISBN 978-2-9517408-9-1. [link]
- Ševčíková, M.: Building a database of Czech derived words. In: Abstracts of the 47th Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2014). Poznań, Adam Mickiewicz University, 2014, pp. 132–133.
- Ševčíková, M., Žabokrtský, Z.: Word-Formation Network for Czech. In: Proceedings of the 9th International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2014). Paris: ELRA, 2014, pp. 1087–1093. ISBN 978-2-9517408-8-4. [link]
- Ševčíková, M.: Productivity of selected deadjectival suffixes in Czech. In: Abstracts of the 46th Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2013). Croatia, University of Split, 2013, pp. 338–339. [link]
- Panevová, J., Ševčíková, M.: The Role of Grammatical Constraints in Lexical Component in Functional Generative Description. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Meaning-Text Theory. Prague: Charles University in Prague, 2013, pp. 134–143. ISBN 978-3-86688-405-2
- Ševčíková, M.: Česká adverbia s příponou -o v teoretickém popisu a v syntakticky anotovaném korpusu. In Zborník Filozofickej fakulty Univerzity Komenskeho, Philologica, Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 2013, s. 365–374. ISBN 978-80-223-3562-1
- Bejček, E., Panevová, J., Popelka, J., Straňák, P., Ševčíková, M., Štěpánek, J., Žabokrtský, Z.: Prague Dependency Treebank 2.5 – a revisited version of PDT 2.0. In: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2012). Mumbai, Coling Organizing Commitee, 2012, pp. 231–246.
- Ševčíková, M.: Deadjektivní deriváty v češtině jako deriváty syntaktické vs. lexikální. In: Gramatika a korpus / Grammar and Corpora 2012. Hradec Králové: Gaudeamus, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7435-243-0
- Ševčíková, M.: Predikativum v gramatickém popisu češtiny. In: Čmejrková S., Hoffmannová J., Klímová J. (eds.): Čeština v pohledu synchronním a diachronním – Stoleté kořeny Ústavu pro jazyk český. Praha, Karolinum, 2012, pp. 597–602.
ISBN 978-80-246-2121-0- Panevová, J., Ševčíková, M.: Delimitation of information between grammatical rules and lexicon. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling 2011). Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2011, pp. 173-182. ISBN: 978-84-615-1834-0. [link]
- Giang Linh Nguy, Ševčíková, M.: Unstated Subject Identification in Czech. In: J. Šafránková (ed.), WDS'11 Proceedings of Contributed Papers: Part I – Mathematics and Computer Sciences. Prague: Matfyzpress, 2011, pp. 149–154. ISBN: 978-80-7378-184-2. [link]
- Ševčíková, M., Panevová, J., Žabokrtský, Z.: Grammatical number of nouns in Czech: linguistic theory and treebank annotation. In: M. Dickinson, K. Müürisep, M. Passarotti (eds.), Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2010). Prague: Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, 2010, pp. 211–222. ISSN: 1736-8197. [link]
- Panevová, J., Ševčíková, M.: Annotation of Morphological Meanings of Verbs Revisited. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010). Paris: ELRA, 2010, pp. 1491–1498. ISBN: 2-9517408-6-7. [link]
- Novák, V., Ševčíková, M.: Unsupervised Detection of Annotation Inconsistencies Using Apriori Algorithm. In: ACL-IJCNLP 2009 workshop: Proceedings of the Third Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW III). Singapore: ACL, pp. 138–141. ISBN: 978-1-932432-52-7. [link]
- Ševčíková, M.: The meaning of the conditional mood within the tectogrammatical annotation of Prague Dependency Treebank 2.0. In: J. Levická & R. Garabík (eds.), NLP, Corpus Linguistics, Corpus Based Grammar Research. Bratislava: Slovac Academy of Sciences, 2009, pp. 321–330. ISBN: 978-80-7399-875-2.
- Ševčíková, M.: Pronouns Introducing Content Clauses. In: F. Štícha & M. Fried (eds.), Grammar & Corpora / Gramatika a korpus 2007. Prague: Academia, 2008, pp. 277–284. ISBN: 978-80-200-1634-8. [ppt]
- Ševčíková, M.: Proper Nouns in Czech Corpora. In: M. Davies et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics Conference Series. Birmingham, University of Birmingham. ISSN: 1747-9398. [link]
- Ševčíková Razímová, M., Žabokrtský, Z.: Systematic Parameterized Description of Pro-forms in the Prague Dependency Treebank 2.0. In: J. Hajič & J. Nivre (eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2006). Prague: Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, 2006, pp. 175–186. ISBN: 80-239-8009-2. [pdf] [ppt]
- Razímová, M.: System of Pronominal Words in Czech with Respect to German and English. In: Abstracts of the 39th Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2006). Bremen: Universität Bremen, 2006, pp. 53–54. [pdf] [ppt]
- Razímová, M., Žabokrtský, Z.: Annotation of Grammatemes in the Prague Dependency Treebank 2.0. In: In: E. Atwell & N. Ide (eds.), Proceedings of the LREC 2006 Workshop on Annotation Science. Genova: ELRA, 2006, pp. 12–19. [pdf] [ppt]
- Razímová, M.: Meanings of Morphological Categories on the Tectogrammatical Level. In: J. Šafránková (ed.), WDS'05 Proceedings of Contributed Papers: Part I – Mathematics and Computer Sciences. Prague: Matfyzpress, 2005, pp. 72–77. ISBN: 80-86732-59-2.
Co-authored data collections:
- DeriNet lexical network
- Universal Segmentations (UniSegments)
- Universal Derivations (UDer) collection of harmonized derivational resources
- Czech Named Entity Corpus (CNEC)
- Prague Dependency Treebank (PDT)
- link to the project page incl. the links to the LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ repository
Other talks
- Trees and paradigms: How to model derivation in natural languages? Seminar of formal linguistics, ÚFAL MFF UK, June 2025. [link]
- Paradigmatika slovotvorby: Jiný pohled na tvoření slov v češtině. Seminář Ústavu lingvistiky FF UK, březen 2025. [slides]
- Lexikální databáze DeriNet jako formální model tvoření slov v češtině (with Z. Žabokrtský). Seminář Ústavu Českého národního korpusu, FF UK, listopad 2021. [slides]
- Patterns in derivation of Czech: Applying the paradigmatic approach to Czech word-formation. Seminar of formal linguistics, ÚFAL MFF UK, March 2020. [link]
- A language resource specialized in Czech word-formation: Recent achievements in developing the DeriNet database (with A. Kalužová & Z. Žabokrtský). SlaviCorp 2018 conference, Prague, September 2018. [link]
- Lexikální síť DeriNet: Derivační vztahy v české slovní zásobě. Ústav českého jazyka, Filozofická fakulta, Masarykova univerzita, Brno, duben 2018.
- Modelování slovotvorných vztahů ve slovní zásobě češtiny. Seminar of formal linguistics, ÚFAL MFF UK, May 2017. [link]
- DeriNet: A Lexical Network of Czech Derived Words (with Z. Žabokrtský). Seminar of formal linguistics, ÚFAL MFF UK, December 2014. [link]
- Slovotvorná produktivita: deadjektivní přípony odvozující názvy vlastností. Seminar of formal linguistics, ÚFAL MFF UK, November 2013. [link]
- Anotace souborového významu substantiv v datech Pražského závislostního korpusu (společně s prof. J. Panevovou). Seminar of formal linguistics, ÚFAL MFF UK, March 2011. [link]
- Jazykové korpusy – moderní nástroj pro lingvistický výzkum (společně s prof. J. Panevovou). Kruh přátel českého jazyka, FF UK, březen 2011.
- Revize morfologických gramatémů pro Pražský závislostní korpus 3.0 (společně s prof. J. Panevovou). Seminar of formal linguistics, ÚFAL MFF UK, October 2010. [pdf]
- Užitečnost jazykových elektronických korpusu a jejich anotování. Metodologický seminář ÚČJTK FF UK, říjen 2010.
- Významy morfologických kategorií v PDT 2.0. Seminář projektu Collegium Informaticum, MFF UK, listopad 2005. [ppt]
- Gramatémy ve FGD a v PDT II (with Zdeněk Žabokrtský). Seminar of formal linguistics, ÚFAL MFF UK, November 2004. [ppt]