Jan Hajic
Encyclopedia
Jan Hajič is a Czech computational linguist and the director of Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics at the Charles University in Prague
. He specializes in empirical NLP
, machine translation
, speech recognition
and creating of treebank
s.
Charles University in Prague
Charles University in Prague is the oldest and largest university in the Czech Republic. Founded in 1348, it was the first university in Central Europe and is also considered the earliest German university...
. He specializes in empirical NLP
NLP
- Artificial intelligence :* Natural language processing, a field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human languages- Medicine and biology :...
, machine translation
Machine translation
Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of computer software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another.On a basic...
, speech recognition
Speech recognition
Speech recognition converts spoken words to text. The term "voice recognition" is sometimes used to refer to recognition systems that must be trained to a particular speaker—as is the case for most desktop recognition software...
and creating of treebank
Treebank
A treebank or parsed corpus is a text corpus in which each sentence has been parsed, i.e. annotated with syntactic structure. Syntactic structure is commonly represented as a tree structure, hence the name Treebank...
s.