PLIN082 Alghoritmic Descript. of Language

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2026
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jakub Machura, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Klára Osolsobě, Dr. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Klára Osolsobě, Dr.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Silvie Hulewicz, DiS.
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
TYP_STUDIA(N)
Recommended presupposition – the successful completion of the CJJ04 seminar. Student knows recent syntactic theories about sentence structure and basic terminology. Recommended presupposition – the successful completion of one of mentioned seminars: CJJ06 Současný český jazyk – syntax, CJBB172 Introduction to Czech syntax.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Abstract
The course aims to familiarise students with: 1) a) how automatic morphological analysis tools used in the Czech environment work; b) how these tools have changed; and c) How do the tools address selected language-related issues? It builds on courses focused on corpus linguistics (PLIN059, CJBB105, CJBB75, and PLIN041). 2) to acquire the basic methods of formal syntactic description with respect to computational processing and automatic syntactic analysis. The course content will be situated within the historical development of syntactic theories since the second half of the 20th century, with a focus on the evolution of Czech linguistic approaches. Students will become familiar with contemporary formalisms for syntactic description, their practical applications, and related methods and algorithms for syntactic analysis. They will also gain hands-on experience working with syntactically annotated corpora.
Learning outcomes
The student will:
- know how tools for automatic morphological analysis of Czech works;
- be able to describe differences and similarities between the tagsets used for Czech;
- employ the benefits of a tagged corpus and avoid its limits;
- able to describe the process of syntactic analysis;
- able to understand differences between dependency and component approach;
- able to work with the syntactically annotated text corpora.
Key topics
  • Automatic morphological analysis for morphologically rich languages
  • Machine dictionaries
  • Selected tokenisation problems and their solutions
  • Selected lemmatisation problems and their solutions
  • Part-of-speech overlaps and their solutions
  • Limitations and possibilities of using automatic analysis results in word formation research
  • Automatic tools for word formation research
  • Syntactic analysis – historical overview, motivation
  • Deep and surface analysis of sentences.
  • Dependency and constituent syntax.
  • Syntactically annotated text corpora.
  • Methods for evaluating the quality of syntactic analysis.
Study resources and literature
  • Náhradní obsah: Ševčíková, M., Žabokrtský, Z., Vidra, J., Straka, M.: Lexikální síť DeriNet: elektronický zdroj pro výzkum derivace v češtině. Časopis pro moderní filologii, 98, 2016, s. 62-76. ISSN: 0008-7386.
  • OSOLSOBĚ, Klára; Vladimír PETKEVIČ; Jaroslava HLAVÁČOVÁ; Josef ŠIMANDL a Martin SVÁŠEK. Parts of Speech in NovaMorf, a New Morphological Annotation of Czech. Jazykovedný časopis. Jazykovedný ústav Ľudovíta Štúra Slovenskej akadémie vied, 2019, roč. 70, č
  • PANEVOVÁ, Jarmila. Mluvnice současné češtiny. Vydání první. Praha: Karolinum, 2014, 291 stran. ISBN 9788024624976.
  • OSOLSOBĚ, Klára a Jaroslava HLAVÁČOVÁ. Chystané změny projektu NovaMorf jako výsledek dlouhého období konvergencí a divergencí ve zpracování české morfologie. In Aleš Horák, Klára Osolsobě, Adam Rambousek, Pavel Rychlý (eds.) Slavonic Natural Language Pr
  • GREPL, Miroslav a Petr KARLÍK. Skladba češtiny. Olomouc: Votobia, 1998, 503 s. ISBN 80-7198-281-4.
  • OSOLSOBĚ, Klára. Morfologie českého slovesa a tvoření deverbativ jako problém strojové analýzy češtiny. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2011, 220 s. Spisy FF MU v Brně ; 401. ISBN 978-80-210-5565-0.
  • ŽIŽKOVÁ, Hana. Compound Adverbs as an Issue in Machine Analysis of Czech Language. Jazykovedný časopis. Versita, 2017, roč. 68, č. 2, s. 396-403. ISSN 0021-5597. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jazcas-2017-0049.
  • OSOLSOBĚ, Klára a Hana ŽIŽKOVÁ. Improving Nominalized Adjectives Tagging. Jazykovedný časopis. Bratislava: Jazykovedný ústav Ľudovíta Štúra Slovenskej akadémie vied, 2019, roč. 70, č. 2, s. 370-379. ISSN 0021-5597. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.2478/
  • Nový encyklopedický slovník češtiny. Edited by Petr Karlík - Marek Nekula - Jana Pleskalová. První vydání. Praha: NLN, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2016, 1092 stran. ISBN 9788074224812.
  • OSOLSOBĚ, Klára. Synonymní/variantní tvary infinitivu jako problém konzistentní lemmatizace. In Jana, Bílková; Kolářová, Ivana; Vondráček, Miloslav. Lingvistika – korpus – empirie. 1. vyd. Praha: Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i., 2020, s. 28-41. Lin
Approaches, practices, and methods used in teaching
Introduction to the problem Reading and discussing a text
Method of verifying learning outcomes and course completion requirements
written test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2025.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2026, recent)
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