Meaning Annotation Experience. Tribute to Petr Sgall (Jan Štěpánek et al.)
Spatial semantics: where philosophy meets spreadsheets. Multiple annotators, 3M Czech tokens, and one humbling conclusion — meaning is messy and labels lie. Thanks Petr Sgall for the theory, sorry for the disagreements. 📍
27/5/26 marks the centenary of Petr Sgall, a pioneer of computational linguistics. His ideas on multi-layer language description and form–meaning-content relation still shape my research. Our latest paper honors his lasting impact on linguistics. @ufal.mff.cuni.cz
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Exciting news for our team! 🚀
The results for @ACL 2026 are out, and we are thrilled to announce that at least 3 papers from ÚFAL (Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics) will be presented in San Diego in July!
🔗https://2026.aclweb.org/
#LREC2026 🌴🇪🇸 continues with day 1 of the main conference.
@ufal.mff.cuni.cz folks will present 5 papers: From annotating medieval manuscripts to auditing LLM hallucinations: Prague NLP is everywhere 🚀
Two weeks until submissions close! The conference call for the Biennial is closing on April 30 🚨 Keep sending us your research through our OpenReview page here 👇 openreview.net/group?id=BCL...
🔸 🔶 Petr Sgall was a pioneer who saw the future of NLP long before the age of LLMs 🔶 🔸
As we mark the 100th anniversary of his birth, Eva Hajičová and Jarmila Panevová have shared a brilliant tribute to his life and work.
🔗 Read the full tribute here: www.matfyz.cz/clanky/ste-v...
Marie Mikulová
Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics
Great discussions, inspiring talks, and lots of interest around the 🌲Prague Dependency Treebank🌲 at #LREC2026. Hope we helped give PDT some well-deserved visibility there! @ufal.mff.cuni.cz
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🔸 Save the Date: A Special Centenary Seminar 🔸
Event Details:
📅 Date: Monday, April 13, 2026
⏰ Time: 14:00
📍 Location: S1, MFF UK, Malostranské náměstí 25
🎁 Talks by Marie Mikulova, Dan Zeman and Jindřich Libovický
🔗 Full program and details: ufal.mff.cuni.cz/events/semin...
#LREC2026 starts in a couple of hours and @ufal.mff.cuni.cz folks are there to present their research. 🤩
Don't miss the panel discussion with @hajicjan.bsky.social on the role of symbolic representations in the era of LLMs. And check out our posters and talks 👇
Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics
NLP relies on Linguistics & that's capital RELIES! It encapsulates 6 major facets where linguistics contributes to NLP: Resources, Evaluation, Low-resource settings, Interpretability, Explanation, & the Study of language. Read it at doi.org/10.1162/coli... @nlopitz.bsky.social @complingy.bsky.social
