RESEARCH INTERESTS

Resource light morphology and tagging; computational linguistics in general.

Mathematical models of grammar, especially of complex word-order.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Linguistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 2007.

Thesis: Czech Clitics in Higher Order Grammar

Doctoral Degree in Computer Science, Charles University, Prague, Czechia, 2001.

Master Degree in Computer Science, Summa cum laude, Charles University, Prague, Czechia, 1998.

Thesis: Two level morphology of Esperanto

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 2002-2006

Introduction to Language in the Humanities (5 quarters)

Charles University, Prague, 1998-2001.

Natural Language Programming (2 semesters)

Programming II (functional and logical programming, 2 semesters)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Software Developer, Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 2007/7-present.

Freelance Software Developer, 1996/4-present.

• Sole developer of an integrated environment for morphological annotation, 2005-present.
• Lead developer of an electronic ordering system for electrical equipment, 1997-1998.
  Hundreds of installations in more than 15 languages.
• Sole developer of a tool for morphological annotation, 1996.
  Tool used to annotate over a million words of the Prague Dependency Treebank, as well as Arabic, Polish and Russian corpora.

Research and Teaching Associate, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 2002/9-2006/8

• Developed a set of tools for morphological analysis.
  Includes an open and efficient system for morphological analysis of inflectional languages, automatic acquisition of lexicons and abbreviations, tools for detailed evaluation, corpora processing and tagging.
• Created, modified, and tested programs for statistical analysis of child obesity with missing data.
• Participated in development of Higher Order Grammar, a formalism based on higher-order logic.
• Taught undergraduate linguistic courses.

Researcher, Charles University, Prague, Czechia, 1998/10-2001/8.

• Developed and adapted guidelines for morphological annotation.
• Designed and implemented modules for computer generation of Czech.

Freelance translator, 1996/10-2001/8.

• Translated computer manuals and tourist guides from English or German into Czech.

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Presidential Fellowship, The Ohio State University, 2006-2007 (full tuition and fee waiver and monthly stipend for 12 months with no service required)

Fulbright Fellowship, 2001-2006.

Award in Recognition of Excellence in Teaching Linguistics 200 Level Courses, Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University, 2003.

University Fellowship, The Ohio State University, 2001-2002 (full tuition and fee waiver and monthly stipend for 12 months with no service required)

MEMBERSHIPS AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Member of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Program Committee Member, Treebanks and Linguistic Theories 2006, Prague.

The Ohio State University Working Papers in Linguistics Committee. Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University, 2001-2002

Ohio State Dissertations in Linguistics Committee. Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University, 2002-2004.

Teaching Administrator. Center for Computational Linguistics, Charles University, Prague, 2000-2001

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

SKILLS

Programming: Fluent in Java, SAS, SQL, C++; Experience in Haskell, Prolog, Visual Basic, XML, XSLT.

Languages: Czech (native), English (fluent), German, French, Russian, Esperanto.