My name is Jonáš Vidra and I am a postgraduate student at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University. If you want to contact me, please write me an e-mail at my-surname@ufal.mff.cuni.cz
I'm working on a system for automatic discovery of derivational relations in many languages at once, using both monolingual data and cross-lingual information transfer.
My master’s thesis topic was supervised morphological segmentation for Czech using data from the DeriNet project, supervised by Zdeněk Žabokrtský. The preliminary code is published as a Git repository.
I help develop DeriNet, a lexical network of derivational relations between Czech words. My focus is mostly on the technical side of things, although I do some linguistic work as well. I develop and maintain the (deprecated but still used) Perl API used for building the network and help develop the new Python API that will replace it. I also develop a search engine called DeriSearch for querying derivational relations. If you’re looking for the development version of DeriSearch, you can find it on this very server.
During the summer semester of 2018/19 I teach the practicals for Programming Ⅱ.
I am a member of NoStraDivadlo amateur theatre group. No performances are currently planned, but we organize several festivals: Setkání ve Strašecí (student and experimental theatre), which will take place from 2019-04-12 to 14th, and Dětská Scéna (school theatre groups and drama clubs), which will take place from 2019-04-27 to 28th.