The segment of Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel), 1938, issue no. 52 promotes a collection of toys and books for the children of Sudetenland refugees. The footage shows parts of the collection organised by Pilsen soldiers under the leadership of Jan Klouda, an engineer and doctor of technical sciences.
The segment of Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel), 1938, issue no. 31 captures politicians Rudolf Beran and Vladislav Klumpar during their visit to a refugee camp near Kladno, which was established for those who fled the Sudetenland. The footage includes a report on a charity collection for the refugees conducted at the Drtina Comprehensive School in Prague´s Smíchov district.
This text corpus contains a carefully optimized set of sentences that could be used in the process of preparing a speech corpus for the development of personalized text-to-speech system. It was designed primarily for the voice conservation procedure that must be performed in a relatively short period before a person loses his/her own voice, typically because of the total laryngectomy.
Total laryngectomy is a radical treatment procedure which is often unavoidable to save life of patients who were diagnosed with severe laryngeal cancer. In spite of being very effective with respect to the primary treatment, it significantly handicaps the patients due to the permanent loss of their ability to use voice and produce speech. Luckily, the modern methods of computer text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis offer a possibility for "digital conservation" of patient's original voice for his/her future speech communication -- a procedure called voice banking or voice conservation. Moreover, the banking procedure can be undertaken by any person facing voice degradation or loss in farther future, or who is simply is willing to keep his/her voice-print.
The HMM-based Tagger is a software for morphological disambiguation (tagging) of Czech texts. The algorithm is statistical, based on the Hidden Markov Models.
Segment from Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) issue no. 3B from 1944 was shot during the Youth Ice Sports Championship organised by the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth. The winning teams from the district championships competed in regional rounds held in twelve towns between 2 and 12 January. The Aktualita newsreel cinematographers recorded a part of an ice hockey game in Lázně Bělohrad.
Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is the formal process used to predict the environmental consequences of a plan. We present a rule-based extraction system to mine Czech EIA documents. The extraction rules work with a set of documents enriched with morphological information and manually created vocabularies of terms supposed to be extracted from the documents, e.g. basic information about the project (address, ID company, ...), data on the impacts and outcomes (waste substances, endangered species, ...), a final opinion. The documents Notice of Intent contains the section BI2 with the information on the scope (capacity) of the plan.
Segment of the Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1939 No. 20 captures the solemn event of the interment of the remains of poet Karel Hynek Mácha at Vyšehrad Cemetery in Prague on 7 May 1939. Mourners walk past the coffin with the poet´s remains in the Pantheon of the National Museum. The large funeral procession starts on Wenceslaus Square and continues along National Street, Masaryk Embankment and narrow alleys to Vyšehrad. The streets are lined with crowds of people. The film footage is accompanied by the recitation of the fourth canto of the poem May delivered by Václav Vydra Jr., an actor of the National Theatre. This is followed by images from the solemn ceremony in the Slavín Tomb at Vyšehrad Cemetery. The coffin with the poet´s remains is lowered into the grave. Rudolf Medek bids farewell to Mácha on the behalf of Czech writers. Actor Eduard Kohout recites 7 May 1939, a poem by Josef Hora. People walk past the grave, placing flowers on it, some crossing themselves. The mourners include composer Vítězslav Novák, painter Max Švabinský, Minister of Education and National Enlightenment Jan Kapras and the Mayor of Prague Otakar Klapka.
The segment of Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel), 1938, issue no. 15 features the speech delivered by MP Luděk Pik, the Mayor of Pilsen, to mark the opening of the Sixth Pilsen Jubilee Exhibition, held from 26 June to 11 September 1938. The footage is complemented by images of Pilsen. The Mayor highlights the importance of the Pilsen and Chodsko regions in defending Czechoslovakia
An image of writer Ivan Olbracht from an unidentified newsreel segment. Ivan Olbracht with his father, writer Antal Stašek, and his wife, writer Helena Malířová, in the garden of the villa in Prague-Krč.
This package contains data used in the IWPT 2020 shared task. It contains training, development and test (evaluation) datasets. The data is based on a subset of Universal Dependencies release 2.5 (http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-3105) but some treebanks contain additional enhanced annotations. Moreover, not all of these additions became part of Universal Dependencies release 2.6 (http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-3226), which makes the shared task data unique and worth a separate release to enable later comparison with new parsing algorithms. The package also contains a number of Perl and Python scripts that have been used to process the data during preparation and during the shared task. Finally, the package includes the official primary submission of each team participating in the shared task.