Research/art/teacher profile of a person
Name and surname:
prof. PhDr. Petr Zemánek, CSc.
Document type:
Research/art/teacher profile of a person
The name of the university:
Comenius University Bratislava
The seat of the university:
Šafárikovo námestie 6, 818 06 Bratislava

I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname
Zemánek
I.2 - Name
Petr
I.3 - Degrees
Prof. PhDr., CSc.
I.4 - Year of birth
1961
I.5 - Name of the workplace
Katedra klasickej a semitskej filológie
I.6 - Address of the workplace
Gondova 2, Bratislava
I.7 - Position
profesor
I.8 - E-mail address
petr.zemanek@uniba.sk
I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/45807
I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university
Arabic language and culture
I.11 - ORCID iD
ORCID: 0000-0001-8874-9937

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Univerzita Karlova
II.b - Year
1985
II.c - Study field and programme
Arabic and Oriental Studies
II.2 - Second degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Univerzita Karlova
II.b - Year
1987
II.c - Study field and programme
PhDr. - Arabic Studies
II.3 - Third degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Univerzita Karlova
II.b - Year
1991
II.c - Study field and programme
CSc. (Ph.D. equivalent) - Arabic and Semitic Linguistics
II.4 - Associate professor
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Univerzita Karlova
II.b - Year
1997
II.c - Study field and programme
Arabic and Semitic Linguistics
II.5 - Professor
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Univerzita Karlova
II.b - Year
2021
II.c - Study field and programme
Linguistics of a particular language of Asia (Arabic and Semitic Linguistics)
II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position III.b - Institution III.c - Duration
lecturer, senior lecturer Charles University 1984-1996
associate professor Charles University 1997-2021
Professor Charles University 2021--

IV. - Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

IV.a - Activity description, course name, other IV.b - Name of the institution IV.c - Year
intensive course of Arabic Institut des langues vivantes, Tunis, Tunisia 1983

V. - Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

V.1 - Overview of the profile courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.1.a - Name of the profile course V.1.b - Study programme V.1.c - Degree V.1.d - Field of study
Úvod do arabistiky a islamistiky (Introduction to Arabic and Islamic Studies) Arabic Language and Culture I. Philology
Úvod do štúdia arabského jazyka (Introduction to Arabic Language) Arabic Language and Culture I. Philology
Úvod do arabskej dialektológie I. (Introduction to Arabic dialectology I) Arabic Language and Culture I. Philology
Úvod do arabskej dialektológie II. (Introduction to Arabic dialectology II) Arabic Language and Culture I. Philology
V.2 - Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year
V.2.a - Name of the study programme V.2.b - Degree V.2.c - Field of study
Arabic Language and Culture I.+II. Philology
V.3 - Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year
V.4 - Overview of supervised final theses
V.4.1 - Number of currently supervised theses
V.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.5.a - Name of the course V.5.b - Study programme V.5.c - Degree V.5.d - Field of study
Reading easy texts Arabic Language and Culture I. Philology
Translation of publicistic texts I. Arabic Language and Culture I. Philology
Translation of publicistic texts II. Arabic Language and Culture I. Philology

VI. - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1 - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs and the corresponding citations
VI.1.1 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
74
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
24
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
590 (Google Scholar; https://scholar.google.com/citations? user=G_BQBnIAAAAJ&hl=en)
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
155 (since 2020, Google Scholar; https://scholar.google.com/citations? user=G_BQBnIAAAAJ&hl=en)
VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level
VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs
1

Zemánek, Petr: The Origins of Pharyngealization in Semitic. Praha (: enigma corporation) 1996, 86 p, ISBN 80-9010704-3-9 (autorský podíl: 100%).

2

Zemánek, Petr, Moustafa, Andrea, Obadalová, Naděžda, Ondráš, František: Arabsko-český slovník. Jazykový software. Praha, SET-OUT 2009. (Elektronická verze arabsko-českého slovníku, rozšířená a přepracovaná). EAN: 9788081234569 (autorský podíl: cca 60%)

3

Smrž, Otakar, Bielický, Viktor, Smržová, Iveta, Pajas, Petr, Žabokrtský, Zdeněk, Zeman, Daniel, Kráčmar, Jakub, Saleh, Shadi, Hajič, Jan, Zemánek, Petr: Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank.Version 1.5. Software (http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/biblio/? section=publication&id=6052414840913560461&mode=view), Praha: Univerzita Karlova 2013

4

Zemánek, Petr: Minimal word constraints and possible triggers for suppletion: the “short” imperatives in Arabic. In: R.I. Kim (ed.): Diachronic Perspectives on Suppletion. Hamburg: Baar Verlag 2019, pp. 271-286. ISBN 978-3-935536-81-3 (autorský podíl: 100%)

5

Zemánek, Petr: The limits and potentials of cladistics in Semitic. In: M. Tosco (ed.): Afroasiatic:Data and perspectives. Amsterdam: Benjamins [CILT 339], 2018, pp. 23-39 (autorský podíl:100%).

VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years
1

Zemánek, Petr. “Two Hundred Ways to Call a Lion in Arabic: Names or Epithets?” Zeitschrift Der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 171, no. 2 (2021): 343–74. https://doi.org/10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.171.2.0343

2

Štefcová, P., Polák, L., Valach, J., Zemánek, P.: Applying the principles of sustainability in cultural heritage objects care: the case study of cuneiform tablet. Estudos de Conservação e Restauro 11/2020, 52-65

3

Zemánek, Petr: AHL AL-ḎIMMA VS. AHL AL-KITĀB IN ISLAM: SYNONYMS OR DIFFERENT TERMS?. In Asian and African Studies, vol. 30/2021, no.1, pp. 189-201. 1335-1257. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/aassav.2021.30.1.09

4

Zemánek, Petr, Mynářová, Jana, Štefcová, Petra and Valach, Jaroslav: Virtual Collection of Cuneiform Tablets as a Complex Multilevel System with Interdisciplinary Content. In: Kremers, Horst (ed.): Digital Cultural Heritage. Cham: Springer 2020, pp. 183-194.

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15200-0_13, ISBN 978-3-030-15198-0, 978-3-030-15200-0 (online) (autorský podíl: cca 50%).

5

Zemánek, Petr: Minimal word constraints and possible triggers for suppletion: the “short” imperatives in Arabic. In: R.I. Kim (ed.): Diachronic Perspectives on Suppletion. Hamburg: Baar Verlag 2019, pp. 271-286. ISBN 978-3-935536-81-3 (autorský podíl: 100%)

VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
1

Zemánek, Petr: The Origins of Pharyngealization in Semitic. Praha (: enigma corporation)

1996, 86 p, ISBN 80-9010704-3-9 (autorský podíl: 100%).

Cited e.g. by:

Edward Lipiński: Semitic Languages. Outline of a Comparative Grammar. Leuven - Paris - Sterling, Virginia (Peeters) 2001, cit 613.

N. Pat-El. The Semitic Language Family. A Typological perspective. In: J. Huehnergard - N. Pat-El: The Semitic Languages. Second Edition. London: Routledge 2019, pp. 80-94, cit. 81.

John Huehnergard: Arabic in Ist Semitic Context. In: A. Al-Jallad (ed.). Arabic in Context. Leiden: Brill 2017, pp. 3-34, cit. 18

Leonid Kogan. Proto-semitic phonetics and phonology. In: S. Weninger et al.: The Semitic Languages. An International Handbook. HSK 36, de Gruyter Mouton 2011, pp. 54-151, cit. 60,

Aaron Rubin: A Brief Introduction to the Semitic Languages. Piscataway: Gorgias Press 2010. Cit. 24.

Andrzej Zaborski: Biradicalism. In: Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. General Editor: Kees Versteegh, Volume 1. A-Ed., Leiden (Brill) 2005, pp. 313-316, cit.315.

Janet C.E. Watson. The phonology and morphology of Arabic. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2002, 307p. cit. 46, 271

2

Zemánek, Petr, CLARA (Corpus Linguae Arabicae): An Overview. In: Association for Computational Linguistics. 39th Annual Meeting and 10th Conference of the European Chapter. Workshop Proceedings on Arabic Language Processing: Status and Prospects, July 6th

2001. CNRS - Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, and Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse, France, s. 111-112 (autorský podíl: 100%).

Cited e.g. by:

M. Sawalha. The Design and the Construction of the Traditional Arabic Lexicons Corpus (The TAL-Corpus). Modern Applied Science Vol. 13, No. 2, 2019, 95-115, cit. 96.

T.R.M. Romli, Hassan, A.R., Mohamad, H. Equivalent Malay-Arabic Data Corpus Collection. European Journal of Language and Literature, [S.l.], v. 2, n. 1, p. 65-73, apr. 2016, cit. 66.

Ashraf AbdelRaouf – Colin A. Higgins – Tony Pridmore – Mahmoud Khalil: Building a multimodal Arabic corpus (MMAC). International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition. Vol.13/4, December 2010, s. 285-302, cit. 287 (CLARA).

Everhard Ditters: Technologies for Arabic Language Teaching and Learning. In: Kassem M. Wahba, Zeinab A. Taha, Liz England: Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the 21st Century. London: Routledge, 2006, 239-252, cit. 249.

Latifa Al-Sulaiti & Eric Atwell: The Design of a Corpus of Contemporary Arabic (CCA). International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 11:1 (2006), 1–36, cit. 7.

Everhard Ditters, Jan Hoogland: Corpus Linguistics. In: Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. General Editor: Kees Versteegh, Volume 1. A-Ed., Leiden (Brill) 2005, pp. 511-518, cit. 516.

Everhard Ditters: Computational Linguistics. In: Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. General Editor: Kees Versteegh, Volume 1. A-Ed., Leiden (Brill) 2005, pp. 455-465, cit. 460.

3

Zemánek, Petr: Ugaritischer Wortformenindex. Hamburg (Buske) 1995 (Lexicographia Orientalis Bd 4), XII, 294 s. ISBN: 3-87548-119-4 (autorský podíl: 100%)

Cited e.g. by:

Carolina López-Ruiz: When the Gods Were Born. Greek Cosmogonies and the Near East. Harvard University Press 2010, 320 s., ISBN 9780674049468, cit. 230.

Irene E. Riegner: The Vanishing Hebrew Harlot: The Adventures of the Hebrew Stem ZNH. New York (Peter Lang) 2009, ISBN 978-0820472768, cit. 43.

William M. Schniedewind, Joel H. Hunt: A Primer on Ugaritic. Language, Culture, and Literature. Cambridge – New York – Melbourne (Cambridge University Press) 2007, cit. 219.

John Kaltner – Steven L. McKenzie: Beyond Babel. A Handbook for Biblical Hebrew and Related Languages. Atlanta (Society of Biblical Literature) 2002, cit. 239.

P. Day: Ugaritic. In: J. Kaltner, S.L. McKenzie (eds.): Beyond Babel. A Handbook for Biblical Hebrew and Related Languages. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature 2002, 223-241, cit. 239.

Mark S. Smith: Untold Stories. The Bible and Ugaritic Studies in the Twentieth Century. Peabody (Mass.; Hendrickson Publishers) 2001, 252 s, cit. 64.

Edward Lipiński: Semitic Languages. Outline of a Comparative Grammar. Leuven - Paris - Sterling, Virginia (Peeters) 2001, cit. 613.

Josef Tropper: Ugaritische Grammatik. Münster (Ugarit-Verlag) 2000, 1056 s, cit. 86.

Mark S. Smith: Ugaritic Studies and the Hebrew Bible, 1968-1998 (with an excursus on Judean Monotheism and the Ugaritic texts. In: Lemaire, A. / M. Sæbø (eds.): Congress Volume Oslo 1998. Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, 80. Brill Academic Publishers (April 2000), ISBN-10: 9004115986, cit. 334.

Stanislav Segert: Ugaritic and Classical Arabic. Asian and African Studies 9/2000, 4-15, cit. 6.

W.G.E. Watson – N. Wyatt: Handbook of Ugaritic Studies. Leiden – Boston - Köln (Brill) 1999. cit. 747.

M. Jursa (review): Archiv für Orientforschung, Bd. 44/45 (1997/1998), p. 534

4

Smrž, Otakar, Bielický, Viktor, Kouřilová, Iveta, Kráčmar, Jakub, Hajič, Jan, Zemánek, Petr: Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank : A Word on the Million Words. In HLT & NPL within the Arabic World : Arabic Language & Local Languages Processing – Status Updates & Prospects.

LREC 2008 Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 2008. DOI 10.1.1.569.3336 (autorský podíl: 20%)


Cited e.g. by:

Culbertson, J., Schouwstra, M., & Kirby, S. (2020). From the world to word order: Deriving biases in noun phrase order from statistical properties of the world. Language 96(3), 696-717. doi:10.1353/lan.2020.0045. Cit. 714.

Alian M., Awajan A. (2019) Arabic Tag Sets: Review. In: Arai K., Kapoor S., Bhatia R. (eds) Intelligent Systems and Applications. IntelliSys 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 868. Springer, Cham, p. 592-606, cit. 595.

Jaafar Y., Bouzoubaa K. (2018) A New Tool for Benchmarking and Assessing Arabic Syntactic Parsers. In: Lachkar A., Bouzoubaa K., Mazroui A., Hamdani A., Lekhouaja A. (eds) Arabic Language Processing: From Theory to Practice. ICALP 2017. Communications in Computer and

Information Science, vol 782. Springer, Cham, cit. 243.

Rafiya Begum , Dipti Misra Sharma . "Development and Analysis of Verb Frame Lexicon for Hindi." Linguistics and Literature Studies 5.1 (2017) 1 - 22. doi: 10.13189/lls.2017.050101, cit. 1.

Futrell, Richard, Mahowald, Kyle, Gibson, Edward: Large-scale evidence of dependency length minimization in 37 languages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015/08/18, 10336-10341 doi 10.1073/pnas.1502134112. Cit. Table S1 (www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1502134112/- /DCSupplemental/pnas.1502134112.st01.pdf)

El-Taher, A., Abo Bakr, H.M., Zidan, I., Shaalan, K.: An Arabic CCG approach for determining constituent types from Arabic Treebank. Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences, Volume 26, Issue 4, December 2014, Pages 441-449, cit. 442.

Marimon, M., Bel, N. Dependency structure annotation in the IULA Spanish LSP Treebank. Lang Resources & Evaluation 49, 433–454 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-014-9280-5, cit. 442.

Hiroshi Noji, Yusuke Miyao: Left-corner Parsing for Dependency Grammar. Journal of Natural Language Processing 2015 Volume 22 Issue 4 Pages251-288, https://doi.org/10.5715/jnlp.22.251, cit. 252.

El-Taher, A., Abo Bakr, H.M., Zidan, I., Shaalan, K.: An Arabic CCG approach for determining constituent types from Arabic Treebank. Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences, Volume 26, Issue 4, December 2014, Pages 441-449, cit. 442.

Everhard Ditters: Issues in Arabic Computational Linguistics. In: Owens, J. (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013, 213-240.

Maytham Alabbas - Allan Ramsay: Natural Language Inference for Arabic Using Extended Tree Edit Distance. Journal of Artificial Intelligencce Research 48, 2013, 1-22, cit. 16.

Nizar Y. Habash: Introduction to Arabic Natural Language Processing. Morgan & Claypool 2010, cit. 104, 107, 117

5

Smrž, Otakar, Zemánek, Petr: Sherds from an Arabic Treebanking Mosaic. In: Prague Bulletin

of Mathematical Linguistics 78, 2002, s. 63-76 (autorský podíl: cca 50%).

Cited e.g. by:

Judith Rosenhouse: Trends of development in Arabic dialectology in the 20th century. A Survey. Zeitschrift für arabische Linguistik 2011, No. 54 (2011), pp. 42-66, cit. 54.

Nizar Y. Habash: Introduction to Arabic Natural Language Processing. Morgan & Claypool 2010, cit. 84.

US Patent US7966173B2: System and method for diacritization of text (Ossama S. Emam, Ruhi Sarikaya, Imed Zitouni). 2006 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7966173)

Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow: Extracting a Tree Adjoining Grammar from the Penn Arabic Treebank. JEP-TALN 2004, Session Traitement Automatique de l’Arabe, Fès, 20 avril 2004. pp 277–284, cit. p. 278.

VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years
1

2020 - 2023 WELCOME: Multiple Intellingent Conversation Agent for Reception , Management and Integration of Third Country Nationals in EU, č. 870930, Rada EU, H 2020. SC6 Migration 2019. Member of the team..

2

2016-2020 Analýza,popis a archivace souborných informací o vlastnostech předmětu

kultúrního dědictví a využití těchto informací v restaurátorské a konzervátorské praxi. (Analysis, description and archivation of aggregate information on properties of cultural heritage artifacts and usage of such data in restoration, conservation and research)

Ministry of Culture, Czech Republic. Head of the team for FA UK Praha (head of project: ing. Petra

Štefcová, Ph.D. - Národní muzeum ČR)

3

2017-2021 Jazyk v proměnách času, místa a kultury (Language in the changing time, places and cultures). Member of the Programme Committee. Karlova Univerzita

4

2018-2022 KREAS, Č. CZ.02.3.68/0.0/0.0/19_68/0016093, MŠMT - operačný program výzkumu,

vývoja z vzdelávania . Member of the team..

VII. - Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

VII.a - Activity, position VII.b - Name of the institution, board VII.c - Duration
Scientific Council, member Faculty of Arts, Charles University 2018-
Editorial Board, Member Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies 1996-
Editorial Board, Member Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica 2017-
Society member SIGARAB (ACL Special Interest Group on Arabic Natural Language Processing) 1996-
Editorial Board, Member Archív Orientální 1990-1998

VIII. - Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

VIII.a - Name of the institution VIII.b - Address of the institution VIII.c - Duration (indicate the duration of stay) VIII.d - Mobility scheme, employment contract, other (describe)
Universita degli Studi di Napoli Orientale Naples, Italy 2/1989-4/1989 study stay
University of Bergen, Norway Bergen, Norway 3/1996-5/1996, 9/1996 - 11/1996 guest professor
New York University New York, USA 7/2001 - 8/2001 Study stay
Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Philadelphia Philadelphia, USA 7/2002-8/2002 cooperation on the project of the Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank

IX. - Other relevant facts