Central and Eastern European Survey

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Type of Organisation: public
Number of Employees: Less than 10
Activities developed: Research, Education, Software publishing activities.

Please provide us with a short text (maximum 1 page), in which you describe the nature of your organisation's involvement in NL and speech. Suggestions for topics to include in this free text are: outstanding achievements, research projects, education and training, implemented systems and tools, computing and communication facilities, programming languages and operating systems used in the department, collaborative activities (institutionalised participation in national or international projects, consortia, national and international professional associations)

Since this description will be stored as a free text and be made accessible by means of text retrieval systems it is important that you use the appropriate (English) key words and phrases.> Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University is a young one, now it s in its second year. t offers all the main subjects within the field of computer science and lso the applications in other fields like law, economics, natural anguage processing, virtual reality and others. That's why one of its argest departments is called Dept.of Information Technologies. he programme of the Faculty for graduates offers 3 years for Bachelor egree and also 5 years for MA Degree. Postgraduate programme usually akes 3 years for PhD Degree (or its Czech equivalent). e participate in some large projects supported by Czech Grant Agency, as o NLP - it is "Czech in the Age of Computers", we have applied for articipation in INCO Copernicus - project Information System Interface or Handicapped People together with the Erlangen and Jena University, jubljana University, Durham University, West Bohemia University. n March 1998 we going to start participation within EuroWordNet-2 roject coordinated by Piek Vossen from Amsterdam University. e cooperate closely with the Institute of Czech National Corpus (tagging, uilding corpus of spoken Czech, corpus tools) at Charles University in rague and also with the group of Prof.P.Sgall (Institute of Theoretical nd Computational Linguistics) and Prof.E.Hajicova (Institute of Formal nd Applied Linguistics), both at Charles University. Our other interests re within the field of (Czech) syntax and also logical semantics, articularly intensional logic and its application to he analysis of natural language (together with Prof.Pavel Materna). There is a Unix based network at the Faculty connected to Internet, all ain programming languages are used, TeX and LaTeX tools are supported ithin the network. Main hardware are Sun Sparck workstations and also ilicon Graphics workstations (mostly Indy and O2). omepage is: http://www.fi.muni.cz/tech/public.html

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