Taming the Corpus

Masako Fidler received her PhD in Slavic Linguistics at UCLA. She is currently a Professor of Slavic Slavic Studies at Brown University. Fidler's research areas are comparative linguistics, discourse analysis, and cognitive linguistics. Her most current research involves corpus-assisted text analysis of Czech using statistical applications developed at the Institute of the Czech National Corpus at Charles University in Prague. This is a collaborative project with Václav Cvrcek at the Institute of the Czech National Corpus at Charles University in Prague.

Václav Cvrcek received his PhD in Mathematical and Corpus Linguistics at Charles University. He is currently the Deputy Chair of the Institute of the Czech National Corpus and Associate Professor at Charles University. His research interests include corpus linguistics, quantitative linguistics, and corpus-assisted discourse studies.