Wanthalf's Lair

Contact

E-mail: Pavel.Vondricka@ff.cuni.cz

Office address / pracovní adresa:

Ústav Českého národního korpusu
Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy v Praze
Panská 890/7 (Kaunický palác)
CZ-11000 Praha 1
Czech Republic

tel.: +420-221619848

Home address / domácí adresa:

Březová alej 1305
CZ-46001 Liberec 1
Czech Republic

tel.: +420-910115049 (VoIP mobile: sip:910115049@sip.odorik.cz)
GSM: +420-774916418

Curriculum vitae

Name: Pavel Vondřička
Born: 1977 in Liberec, Czech Republic
Main scholarly interest: linguistics and lexicography in general, Nordic languages particularly (computational and corpus linguistics, lexical databases; historical linguistics and language variation)
Languages supported: Czech (mother tongue), Norwegian, German, English, Icelandic
[which implies passive knowledge of: Slovak, Danish, Swedish, Old-Norse and Faroese]

Qualifications

  • 2011 - PhD in Mathematical Linguistics: Corpus Linguistics, Lexicology and Lexicography, Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2009 - BA in Icelandic for foreign students, University of Iceland in Reykjavík, Iceland
  • 2003 - Magister in German Studies and Norwegian Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Main education

  • 2003 - 2011 Mathematical Linguistics: Corpus Linguistics, Lexicography and Lexicology, PhD programme, Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic (project: Contrastive multilingual description - a lexical database for bilingual dictionaries)
  • 2007 - 2009 - Icelandic for foreigners and Medieval Icelandic Studies, University of Iceland in Reykjavík, Iceland
  • 2000 - 2001 - Icelandic for foreigners, University of Iceland in Reykjavík, Iceland
  • 1996 - 2003 German Studies and Norwegian Studies, MA programme, Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic (thesis: Bokmål and Nynorsk in bilingual dictionaries - lexical variation in dictionary descriptions)
  • 1991 - 1996 Czech-German bilingual gymnasium, secondary school, Gymnázium F.X.Šaldy in Liberec, Czech Republic
  • until 1991 primary school with extended tuition in mathematics and natural sciences in Liberec, Czech Republic

Additional external studies and visits

  • 2009 - 2010 - guest researcher at Unifob AKSIS/Uni Digital, University of Bergen, Norway; Yggdrasil mobility grants of the Research Council of Norway (10 months)
  • 2009 - ESR / research assistant in Marie-Curie training network Sound2Sense (annotation of Czech speech corpora), Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics / Radboud Universiteit in Nijmegen, Netherlands (3 months)
  • 2008 - Summerschool of Faroese language and literature, University of Faroe Islands in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
  • 2006 - Marie-Curie training site BATMULT, AKSIS, University of Bergen, Norway (9 months)
  • 2003 - Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies: Section for Lexicography and Dialects, University of Oslo, Norway (2 months)
  • 1998 - Summerschool of Norwegian language, University of Bergen, Norway

Professional experience

  • since 2010 - researcher/programmer at the Institute of the Czech National Corpus, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2009 - ESR / research assistant in the Marie-Curie training network Sound2Sense (annotation of Czech speech corpora), Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics / Radboud Universiteit in Nijmegen, Netherlands (3 months)
  • since 2005 - InterCorp - parallel corpus of Czech and more than 20 foreign languages, coordination of the Czech-Norwegian parallel corpus; technical support (text database design and implementation, project website), Institute of the Czech National Corpus, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2003 - 2005 occasional cooperation with the Institute of the Czech National Corpus (text conversion and annotation)
  • since 2001 - Vševěd - electronic encyclopaedia, technical support (conception and design, database and publishing system development; server system maintenance), private project of Netpoint s.r.o., Czech Republic

Other experience and fields of interest

  • Unix (Linux, Mac OS X) system and network administration (since 1995); programming/scripting (PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, C++) and SQL databases; webdesign and publishing systems (HTML/CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Qooxdoo, D3.js, Google Charts API); XML technologies; computer hardware and network maintenance
  • travelling and mountain hiking (especially in Norway, Lappland and Iceland)
  • photography, music, film, literature (especially: Tolkien, old Germanic literature aso.), Celtic languages