Ondřej Svoboda — Curriculum Vitae (česky)

computational linguist, programmer, hacker, creator

Personal information

Alma mater: Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic; personal page
Field of study: Czech Language with Orientation on Computational Linguistics; at the Faculty of Arts (in cooperation with the Faculty of Informatics)
Master’s degree: 09/2014 — 02/2017; thesis: Corpus tagging accuracy as affected by changes to its rich tagset (in English)
Erasmus+: 09/2015 — 02/2016; Department of Russian & Slavonic Studies, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Bachelor’s degree: 09/2011 — 06/2014; thesis: Automatic Recognition of Czech Word-order Positions and Elements of Functional Sentence Perspective (in Czech); papers: An Experiment with Theme–Rheme Identification, Semi-automatic Theme-Rheme Identification, both with Karel Pala
Other studies attempted: 09/2009 — 06/2011 (bachelor’s, not completed); Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing at the Faculty of Informatics

open-source
- GitHub profile
- Red Hat (oVirt project) – improvements and fixes to a (network) configuration daemon for hypervisors; unit and system testing
- Master’s thesis: tagsetbench source code (MIT licensed)
- contributor to OSD Lyrics and maintainer of the Arch Linux package
- Czech translation of OpenTTD (regularly until 2009) and lrcShow-X
- Music on Console patches: MPRIS support, and a few more
- bug reporter: helped make Altap Salamander work under Wine
Jablocom – design and implementation of a statistical framework (frequency distribution, over time)
Heuréka.cz – heuristics for assessing the quality of a product’s description; refactoring and improvement of a crawler and a parser
Tycoonez.com:munity – programmed TTD and OpenTTD sites (frontend and backend)
Svoboda Fonservis – various applications for Windows, current temperature gadget, repair status

Computer science: efficient data structures, grasp of Prolog and the functional programming paradigm, principles of speech recognition and synthesis, basics of digital signal and image processing
Linguistics: corpus linguistics using CQL, basic knowledge of internals of a corpus manager, ability to create own tools, grasp of syntactic analysis frameworks, interest in morphology and development of languages
Natural language processing: batch processing of text corpora, chart-based syntactic analysis (including a basic Czech grammar designed with the concept of word-order positions in mind), derivational morphology
Development: Python (data processing, automation, testing, GUI), AJAX, SQL, C#/.NET, advanced regular expressions, user-space C/C++ and Win32 (basics), Visual Basic 6, PHP
Computing environment capability: keyboard-centric power user of Arch Linux, seasoned user of Git
Other: private teaching (linguistics, programming)

programming, development of convenience tools (for time and knowledge management)
development, etymology, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and scripts of the world languages
natural language understanding (someday)
biking, walking, trekking, parkour
singing, just enjoying a piano or a guitar
occasional contributing to Wikipedia and Wiktionary

Last updated on 10 March 2017.