Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence
The research is directed namely to: large language models, text corpora and corpus tools, syntactic and semantic analysis of natural language, dialogue and question-answering systems, computational lexicography and last but not least machine translation. The field of natural language processing is closely related to the field of artificial intelligence, where natural language analysis is intertwined with knowledge representation, which includes semantic networks, logical calculi and various types of ontologies.
From a methodological point of view, this is an attractive area in which we encounter difficult tasks whose solution can facilitate human-machine communication. In particular, the use and creation of large language models nowadays makes it possible to bring computers closer to people without technical knowledge in many tasks. In particular, current research paradigms build on deep neural networks, analysis and preprocessing of suitable training and testing data.
PhD topics in this field are focused on solving problems in the areas outlined above. The dissertations are expected to both search for new theoretical approaches and techniques in natural language processing and to implement them in the form of tools applicable in further research and practice.
This PhD topic was created within the Natural Language Processing Laboratory at the Faculty of Informatics in 1997. Currently, the Laboratory exists under the name of the Natural Language Processing Centre, which has been cooperating with corporate partners such as the Czech-British company Lexical Computing Ltd or Seznam.cz for a long time. Thus, topics oriented towards cooperation with industrial partners can also be formulated. Successful theses can be published in international conference proceedings and peer-reviewed journals.
Some topics are directly linked to a research project and the doctoral student involved typically receives a part-time job with corresponding remuneration. A list of currently available PhD research positions is available on the PhdCalls page.
Supervisors: doc. RNDr. Aleš Horák, Ph.D., doc. Mgr. Pavel Rychlý, Ph.D.
