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Úštěk, September 2026
- Hotel Racek, Úštěk, https://racekhotel.cz/en/
- Sunday, September 20 – Tuesday, September 22
Registration
Please, go to PAKT https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pakt/registration/2026/ and fill in the form by August 24 23:59.
Don't forget to fill in a Travel Authorization form in the SIS system before your trip. Use financial sources that you prefer (LINDAT, ERC etc.) or Provoz 207-01/207PROV if you don't have a better one. Don't forget to accept the TA approvals in SIS before the trip.
Programme
Sunday
| from 16:00 | Arrivals, check in |
| 18:30 | Dinner |
| 18:00-23:00 | ? Online puzzlehunt (solving ciphers) feat. Tmou (qualification round) |
Monday
| 7:00-9:00 | Breakfast | |
| 9:00-10:10 | Barbora Hladká – ÚFAL's head report (pdf) | |
| Jan Hajič – Publication activities of ÚFAL's members, … (pdf) | ||
| 10:10-10:30 | Dušan Variš, Veronika Fišerová – ESSLLI 2026: Wrap-Up | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00-11:20 | Pavel Pecina – PhD (slides) | |
| 11:20-11:35 | Jiří Valach – Knowledge Transfer@ÚFAL | |
| 11:35-12:20 | Overview of Ongoing Projects – Part I | |
| 12:20 | Group photo of all participants | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 18:30 | Dinner |
Tuesday
| 7:00-9:00 | Breakfast + check out |
| 9:00-9:20 | Peter Polák – JSALT 2026 (overview only, technical details will be shared on Monday with those interested) |
| 9:20-9:30 | Alena Chrastová – PR@ÚFAL |
| 9:30-9:50 | Local LLMs vs. Cloud APIs: Security, Traffic, Costs |
| 9:50-10:10 | Learning Czech: Surviving the Language  |
| 10:10-10:20 | Dan Zeman – SyntaxFest 2027 goes to Prague |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-11:50 | Overview of Ongoing Projects – Part II |
| 11:55-12:10 | Ondřej Dušek, Jindřich Libovický – Comments on ARR |
| 12:10-12:25 | Michal Olbrich – Internship in Vienna |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
Round tables, working groups
- Monday, 17:30: Master's program - what's new with the accreditation?
- Monday, 17:30: TEITOK-related new tools - NLP pipelines, search engines, document conversion - demo for feedback