Central and Eastern European Survey

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• Willingnes to receive PhD students: YES
  
• Research areas for PhD supervision: 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 and pragmatics: 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 and generation of Czech (morphology, tagging, syntax, discourse) for the aims of machine translation, human-machine interface, information retrieval, grammar checkers, automatic document generation. Parsing English for the aims of machine translation. Experiments with speech recognition for Czech.
  
• Average number of PhD students every year: 5-10
  
• Events organised regularly: Courses, Seminars, Workshops.
• List of Events:
  
  Event Title: Vilem Mathesius Center Courses in Linguistics and Semiotics
  Duration: two weeks, once or twice a year
  Lecturer(s): world-wide recognized experts in various fields of linguistics and computational linguistics from abroad and from the Czech republic the world, different per series
  
  Event Title: Formal linguistics Seminar
  Duration: 90 minutes every week
  Lecturer(s): supervisor: prof. Petr Sgall, contributions by workers and students from the Institute and by visiting scholars
  
  Event Title: Week of Doctorand Students
  Duration: one week, annually
  Lecturer(s): a workshop for poastgraduate students to present their work
  

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