Office no. L220.2

Božetěchova 1/2

612 66 Brno, Czech Republic

I am a posdoctoral researcher in Natural Language Processing from Knowledge Technology Research Group active at FIT-BUT in Brno, Czech Republic. My faculty webpage is available here.

My main research interests are problems related to Large Language Models, Information Retrieval, Question Answering and Fact-Checking. This includes topics such as latent variable models, document retrieval/re-ranking, machine comprehension, cross-lingual continued pretraining or methods for faithful explainability.

If you are a student looking for BSc/MSc thesis supervision in Natural Language Processing and you are not afraid of doing the challenging research, feel free to contact me.

news

Apr 25, 2024	Today, I have defended my dissertation on Automated Factoid Question Answering and Fact-Checking in Natural Language (thesis here). The thesis was also awarded by Dean’s award!
Mar 13, 2024	We released BUT-FIT/csmpt7b, the first Czech-only 7b LLM, together with most of it’s training corpus and checkpoints. We also released BUT-FIT/CSTinyLlama-1.2B to complement our BUT-FIT model family.
Oct 31, 2023	We released an open-source 1.5b BUT-FIT/Czech-GPT-2-XL-133k czech language model checkpoint. This is an intermediate result of our ongoing work on SEMANT project here at BUT.
May 2, 2023	Our work on Claim-Dissector: An Interpretable Fact-Checking System with Joint Re-ranking and Veracity Prediction was accepted to Findings of ACL 2023!
Apr 26, 2023	Today, I gave an invited talk at Masaryk University in Introduction to Information Retrieval course!. The talk’s theme was Question Answering and Beyond.