Research Activities pursued at the organisation

Theoretical Linguistics:

Syntax: formal framework for dependency syntax as a linguistic level of interface towards cognition, including the topic-focus articulation of the sentence.

Semantics: impact of topic and focus on an intensional interpretation of the sentence and of the discourse.

Morphology: formal descriptive framework.

Statistical methods: development of methods suitable for free-word order languages and for languages with high degree of inflection, mainly for parsing purposes.

Natural Language Processing:

Parsing Czech (morphology, tagging, syntax) for the aims of machine translation, human-machine interface, information retrieval, grammar checkers. Parsing English for the aims of machine translation. Experiments with speech recognition for Czech.

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