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Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal.mff.cuni.cz · 7d

🚀 PROJECT LAUNCH: Infoveillance is Live! Our AI tool monitors digital media to detect misinformation and enhance public trust/literacy. Fighting infodemics & polarization.

[https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/grants/infoveillance]
#Infoveillance #AI #Misinformation #PublicTrust #UFAL

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Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal.mff.cuni.cz · 8d

The tools developed by Pavel and Jan are used by several oral history collections around the world, including the USC Holocaust testimonies available and the Center for Visual History Malach at UFAL. Their general ASR tools are also available at lindat.mff.cuni.cz/services/uwe....

UWebASR - University of West Bohemia : Automatic Speech Recognition Service

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LINDAT / CLARIAH - CZ @lindatclariahcz.bsky.social · 8d

Huge win! 🎉 The CLARIN Steven Krauwer Prize 2025 goes to LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ partners Pavel Ircing & Jan Švec (UWB). They won for their ASR tools for complex Oral History recordings. Their work is vital for global digital humanities!

#CLARIN #LINDAT #StevenKrauwerAward #ASR #OralHistory #DG

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Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal.mff.cuni.cz · 10d

Letní školu vedli: Ondřej Bojar, Zdeněk Kasner, Tomáš Polák, Dominik Macháček, Miroslav Hrabal a Josef Jon.

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Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal.mff.cuni.cz · 10d

Šest kolegů vedlo pro DGT (Evropské ředitelství pro překlady) třídenní letní školu v Lucemburku. Učili 40+ pracovníků DGT nejnovější metody strojové podpory překladu a zajištění kvality. Cíl? Zefektivnit překlad legislativy EU do všech členských jazyků!
#DGT #UFAL #StrojovyPreklad #AI #EUTools

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Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal.mff.cuni.cz · 15d

In his speech titled "Indirect Objects across Languages: A Trap in Universal Dependencies?" he discussed the challenges of the UD framework in relation to traditional language descriptions. He highlighted the ambiguities in UD guidelines and their impact on annotation practices.

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Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal.mff.cuni.cz · 15d

@Dan Zeman has been invited as a keynote speaker at the ICLC 11 conference! iclc11.ff.cuni.cz/keynote-spea...

#UFAL #ICLC11 #UniversalDependencies #CharlesUniversity #Prague

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Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal.mff.cuni.cz · 16d

ufal.mff.cuni.cz/grants/human...
Projekt bude zkoumat, jak mohou velké jazykové modely a další technologie umělé inteligence přispět k demokratickému dialogu, vzdělávání a komunikaci mezi lidmi.

Období realizace: 1. 3.2025 – 31. 12.2028. Financování: OP JAK: Společenské a humanitní vědy 2/2

Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal.mff.cuni.cz · 16d

Nahlédněte na kick‐off meeting projektu ✨HumanAId: AI zaměřená na člověka pro udržitelnou a adaptabilní společnost✨.

Projekt se silnou účastí: vede ho FFUK ve spolupráci s MFF UK, FSV UK, PF UP v Olomouci, FÚ AV ČR, prg.ai a Kampusem Hybernská.

#prgAI #HumanAId #OPJAK
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Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal.mff.cuni.cz · 16d

And another successfully defended thesis: 👉Dr.👈 Kira Droganova defended her thesis: Dependency Parsing beyond Simple Trees, which focused on enriching syntactic parsing with deeper semantic layers to better capture meaning across languages. Congratulations 🥳

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Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal.mff.cuni.cz · 17d

The word intruder test 🕵️ for interpreting independent components of LLM representations is described in an LREC-COLING 2024 paper: aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-ma...
If you are interested in more of Tomáš's work, check out his publications scholar.google.com/citations?hl...

Exploring Interpretability of Independent Components of Word Embeddings with Automated Word Intruder Test

Tomáš Musil, David Mareček. Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024). 2024.

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Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal.mff.cuni.cz · 17d

🎉 Congratulations to 👉Dr.👈 Tomáš Musil on successfully defending his PhD thesis! 🍻 His talk explored #LLMs, theories of meaning, and their role in LLM #interpretability, highlighting unsupervised discovery of binary semantic features via ICA and the word intruder test.

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Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal.mff.cuni.cz · 17d

The discussions from the LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ Advisory Board meeting, particularly on long-term strategy and the upcoming Evaluation 2025, are crucial for our shared mission. We were happy to host the meeting!

Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal.mff.cuni.cz · 20d

Workshop "Regulace, AI a advokacie – zákulisí legislativy a advokátních inovací" představil OpenEuroLLM jako naději pro evropskou digitální suverenitu a nutnost pro konkurenceschopnost Evropy. Jan Hajič zdůraznil, že Česko se snaží o snižování byrokracie v oblasti AI.

#AI #AIregulation #FutureOfLaw

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Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal.mff.cuni.cz · 21d

Researchers' Night with @informatfyz.cuni.cz!
You can come to a live podcast recording and try out a real-time automatic interpreting system ELITR. The event is on September 26th.

🔗 czechia.representation.ec.europa.eu/evropsky-den...

#ELITR #AI #Interpreting #MachineTranslation #LanguageTech

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Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal.mff.cuni.cz · Sep 1

Gold Data and Multiple Understanding of Discourse Relations
by Š. Zikánová, A. Nedoluzhko, J. Mírovský & E. Hajičová
TL;DR: Investigate how annotators interpret discourse relations differently, revealing important insights about subjectivity in linguistic annotation and its impact on NLP systems.

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Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal.mff.cuni.cz · Sep 1

Morphological Segmentation with Neural Networks: Performance Effects of Architecture, Data Size, and Cross-Lingual Transfer in Seven Languages
by M. Olbrich & Z. Zabokrtsky
TL;DR: Analyzed neural architectures, data size, and cross-lingual transfer for morphological segmentation for 7 languages.

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Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal.mff.cuni.cz · Sep 1

Flexing in 73 Languages: A Single Small Model for Multilingual Inflection
by Tomáš Sourada & Jana Straková
TL;DR: Compact neural model successfully handles morphological inflection across 73 diverse languages, proving that small can be mighty in multilingual NLP.

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Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal.mff.cuni.cz · Sep 1

Refining Czech GEC: Insights from a Multi-Experiment Approach
by P. Pechman, @straka-milan.bsky.social , @janastrakova.bsky.social , J. Náplava
TL;DR: Better Czech grammatical error correction systems + insights for better automated writing assistance in Czech arxiv.org/abs/2506.22402

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Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal.mff.cuni.cz · Sep 1

Investigating the Effect of Parallel Data in the Cross-Lingual Transfer for Vision-Language Encoders
by @andrei-a-manea.bsky.social & @jlibovicky.bsky.social
TL;DR: Explore how parallel datasets improve cross-lingual transfer in vision-language models. arxiv.org/abs/2504.21681

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Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal.mff.cuni.cz · Sep 1

ParCzech 3.0: A Large Czech Speech Corpus with Rich Metadata
by M. Kopp, V. Stankov, J. O. Krůza, . Straňák & . Bojar
TL;DR: Czech parliamentary speeches from 2013-2021 with rich metadata incl. speaker identities, political affiliations, and automatic linguistic annotations in TEI format.

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Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal.mff.cuni.cz · Sep 1

Automated Speaking Assessment for L2 Learners of Czech by Peter Polák, Michal Novák, Kateřina Rysová, Magdaléna Rysová & Ondřej Bojar
TL;DR: An automated system to evaluate the Czech speaking skills of second language learners, making language assessment more accessible and consistent.

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Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal.mff.cuni.cz · Sep 1

Great week at #TSD2025 in Erlangen! Our @ufal-cuni.bsky.social team presented 7 papers covering various topics from Czech speech assessment to multilingual morphology. Thanks to all attendees who engaged with our work! 🧵👇
#NLP #ComputationalLinguistics #CzechNLP #MachineLearning

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Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal.mff.cuni.cz · Sep 1

Šimon Libřický defended his bachelor thesis with great success and co-authored an article accepted to @ISMIR 2025. His topic is the intersection between music and computers - a model of difficulty of saxophone scores. Inteview for @informatfyz.cuni.cz: www.mff.cuni.cz/en/public/ne....

#UFAL #MFFUK

Musician at Matfyz, computer scientist with a saxophone

Šimon Libřický, a student from the Prague Music Computing Group, has merged music with computer science to create a model for the difficulty of saxophone scores. His bachelor's thesis, which addresses...

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Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal.mff.cuni.cz · Aug 27

Tomorrow, Thu Aug 28, 14-17, join AutoMin 2025 fully remote session to learn about automatic summarization of meetings. Keynote talks by our colleagues from Zoom and Translated.net
Link+Schedule: ufal.github.io/automin-2025
Proudly co-organized by Ondřej Bojar and folks from @ufal-cuni.bsky.social

AutoMin 2025 | Home

Shared Task on Automatic Minuting

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