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12AM: We're back in the Madrid room for Oral session 2! Federica Gamba Federica Gamba presents "Universal Feature-based Morphological Trees"; a novel extension of Universal Dependencies syntactic trees to capture morphological structure of word forms.

Federica Gamba Read the paper here: aclanthology.org/2024.mwe-1.17/ #MWEUD2024 colocated at LREC COLING 2024

12.20: Abishek Stephen of Charles University presents "Light Verb Constructions in Universal Dependencies for South Asian Languages"; taking us on a safari through the jungle of light verb constructions. LVCs may require a new approach where compounds are a factor.

Read the paper here: aclanthology.org/2024.mwe-1.21/ #MWEUD2024 colocated at LREC COLING 2024

Computational comparative grammar research is getting more and more sophisticated – UD corpora are being enhanced by constructional annotation, using cross-linguistically defined constructions. aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main…

Congratulations🥳 to 👉Dr.👈 Dominik Macháček👨‍🎓for passing his PhD thesis defence! 🍻 In his defense talk, Dominik described his five-year journey from text machine translation to automated interpreting.

GPT-5 will go to only a vaguely related talk somewhere in the department, motivated solely by the complimentary snacks.

Viktor Orbán does not represent our or EU interests in Moscow. Nor does he have any mandate to negotiate on our behalf. The Czech position is clear: Putin is the aggressor, we stand with Ukraine.

The first edition of the Biennial of Czech Linguistics took place from September 17 to 20 at Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy bcl2024.ff.cuni.cz/en/home. Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics was there with 1⃣6⃣🤯 contributions, and Magda Ševčíková in the organizing committee.

Pětikoalice se rozpadá, Fiala udělal hrubou chybu a Babiš má blíž ke koalici s ODS nazory.aktualne.cz/komentare/peti… prostřednictvím Názory Aktuálně.cz

Great news 👉 The Scientific Council of Charles University awarded (without a single negative vote‼️) ✨Zdeněk Žabokrtský✨ the title of a Full Professor. This is in recognition of his long-standing scientific and pedagogical excellence. Congratulations on a well-deserved promotion!

Skvělé vlákno o tom, proč rok 46 př.n.l. byl nejdelší v historii - celých 445 dní, v čem byl Gaius Julius Caesar skoro génius, v čem ho papež Řehoř XIII. opravil a proč trvalo tak dlouho, než opravu přijala celá Evropa. Dejte si trochu klidu při historickém vyprávění.

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Universal Dependencies v2.15 is out! 13 new treebanks, 7 new languages, including Gwichin, Pashto, or Uzbek. universaldependencies.org

President prezidentpavel has officially appointed Zdeněk Žabokrtský as a professor. ☺️ cuni.cz/UK-6311.html?n… Congrats! 🥳

Universal Dependencies v2.16 is out! 23 new treebanks, 11 new languages, including Esperanto, Khoekhoe, or Tundra Nenets. universaldependencies.org

Nechutná kampaň ANO proti Ukrajincům pokračuje. Tentokrát se neštítili zapojit svoje mladé. Tak pro pořádek. Rodičovský příspěvek pro uprchlíky nikdo nechystá a Ukrajinci do našeho rozpočtu přispívají více, než nás stojí pomáhat jejich krajanům. Budu rád, když pomůžete v boji s

Congratulations Doctor Kira Droganova!

Universal Dependencies v2.17 is out! 20 new treebanks, 7 new languages, including Shanghainese, Sicilian, or Yiddish. universaldependencies.org