Central and Eastern European Survey
Research
Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University
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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