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Jan Hajič is a Professor at Charles University in Prague, where he serves as Deputy Director of the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics. Since 2016, he holds an Adjunct Professor position at the University of Colorado Boulder. His leadership extends to directing the LINDAT/CLARIN infrastructure, a key part of the EU Clarin network, and chairing the META-NET executive board.
- PhD in Computational Linguistics from Charles University (1995)
- Over 180 publications and a book on computational morphology
- Principal Investigator for major NSF, EU, and Czech grants
His research focuses on computational linguistics, natural language processing, machine translation, and semantic annotation. He pioneered the Uniform Meaning Representation (UMR) project and contributed to foundational resources like the Prague Dependency Treebank. His work spans multilingual NLP, language technology infrastructure, and digital language equality initiatives.
Recent publications highlight advancements in semantic role labeling, event-type ontologies, and interoperable language technology platforms. He has led projects such as Humane-AI-Net and European Language Grid, emphasizing cross-cultural communication and open science.
Scientific Awards:
- Donatio Prize of Charles University (2022)
- Silver Medal of Charles University (2020)
- Silver Medal I of Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (2012)
- Award of Czech Academy of Sciences for best 'Information Society' project (2009)
- Co-author of Best Student Paper at EMNLP (2005)
- Silver Medal of Charles University (2001)
