Martin Fajčík

PhD candidate in Natural Language Processing

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Office no. L220.2

Božetěchova 1/2

612 66 Brno, Czech Republic

I am a final-year PhD student in Natural Language Processing from Knowledge Technology Research Group active at FIT-BUT in Brno, Czech Republic, advised by prof. Pavel Smrž. My faculty webpage is available here.

My main research interests are problems related to Question Answering and Fact-Checking. This includes topics such as latent variable models, document retrieval/re-ranking, machine comprehension or 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

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.
Sep 9, 2022 Together with colleagues at IDIAP, we participated in 3rd shared task of CASE22@EMNLP. We achieved close 2nd place in subtask2! Check out our preprints for subtask 1 and subtask 2.
Jul 29, 2022 Finally, our work on Claim-Dissector: An Interpretable Fact-Checking System with Joint Re-ranking and Veracity Prediction is available at arXiv!