Hajičová Eva
Prof., PhDr., DrSc.
Born August 23, 1935 in Prague
- Theoretical and computational linguistics
- Member of Learned Society since 2004
Educational and professional preparation:
- 1953, graduated, Academic Secondary School in Prague;
- 1953-1958, Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University, English and Czech;
- 1968, PhDr., FP CU;
- 1976, CSc.; 1988, DrSc.;
- 1991, Associate Professor, general linguistics, CU;
- 1995, Full Professor, general linguistics CU
Employment and academic positions:
- 1958-1959, elementary school teacher;
- 1959-1962, teacher, secondary vocational school;
- 1962-1972, lecturer, FP CU;
- 1973-present, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, CU (as research assistant, senior research worker, professor);
- 1990-2000, Director, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, FMP, CU;
- 2001-2004, Head, Centre of Computational Linguistics FMP CU
Membership in domestic scientific bodies:
- Prague Linguistics Circle (Chair; 1997-present), Language Association of Czech Republic;
- Czech Society for Cybernetics and Computer Science (Board Member);
- Modern Philologists Circle (Committee Member)
- 1998-2003, Scientific Council, CU;
- 1997-present, Scientific Council, FMP, CU;
- 2003-present, Scientific Council FMP, CU
Membership and positions in selected international organizations and societies:
- Association for Computational Linguistics (1997-1998 President of the Association);
- International Speech and Communication Association (Executive Committee member);
- Comité International Permanent des Linguistes (Executive Committee member);
- Societas Linguistica Europaea, International Committee of Computational Linguistics (Vice-chairperson)
- 2003-present, Member, International Scientific Council Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR Pisa
- 2001-present, Member, Academia Europaea
Notable awards:
- 1995, Silver Medal, FMP, CU
- 1997, von Humboldt Research Award, (by A.v.Humboldt-Stiftung, Bonn)
- 2000, Silver Medal, CU
- 2003, Meda,l Minister of Education, Class 1, for important scientific and pedagogical work
Selected publications:
- Negace a presupozice ve významové stavbě věty (Negation and resupposition in the meaning structure of a sentence). Academia, Prague 1975
- Presupposition and allegation revisited. J. of Pragmatics 8, 155-167, 1984
- The Meaning of the Sentence in Its Semantic and Pragmatic Aspects (with P. Sgall and J. Panevová). Reidel, Dordrecht 1986
- A dependency-based parser for topic and focus. Current Issues in Parsing Technology, Ed. M. Tomita. Kluwer, Boston/Dordrecht/London 1991, pp. 127-138
- ‚Free‘ word order described without unnecessary complexity.” Theoretical Linguistics 17, 99-106. 1991.
- A challenge for universal grammar: Valency and ‚free‘ order in underlying structure. Invited lecture at the plenary meeting, International Congress of Linguists, Quebec.
In: XVth International Congress of Linguists. Plenary Session Texts, 1992, 50-61. - Issues of Sentence Structure and Discourse Patterns. UK, Prague 1993
- Topic-Focus Articulation, Tripartite Structures and Semantic Content (with B.H.Partee and P. Sgall). Kluwer, Amsterdam 1998
- Dependency-based Underlying Structure: Tagging of a Very Large Corpus. In: Les Grammaires de Dépendence. Hermes Scientific Publications, Paris 2000, pp. 57-78
- Possibilities and Limits of Optimality in Topic-Focus Articulation. In: Current Issues in Formal Slavic Linguistics (G. Zybatow, U. Junghanns, G. Mehlhorn and L. Szucsich,. Eds.). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2001, pp. 385-394
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