Historical and corpus linguistics, quantitative and computational linguistics, digitization and digital humanities
Topics: obsolescence of lexical items and multi-word expressions in the history of English, history of English orthography, quantitative analysis of Old, Middle and Early Modern English, automatic morphological analysis and lemmatization of Old English, quantitative typology in the history of English, digital lexicography
Deputy Head of the Department of Linguistics (CU FA)
Chairman of the board of the Digital Humanities Center (CU FA)
Member of the executive board of the Czech Association for Digital Humanities
Previously: head of the academic senate and vice-dean for information resources at the Faculty of Arts, Member of the executive board of the European Association for DH
PublicationsGrants & ProjectsTeachingTheses
Forthcoming:
Tichý, Ondřej, Barbora Bulantová, Anna Marklová and Jiří Milička. Benchmarking Large Language Models for Linguistic Research.
Tichý, Ondřej, Barbora Bulantová, Veronika Raušová and Anna Marklová. Teaching (with) Critical AI Literacy: Experiences and Practice at the Department of Linguistics CU FA.
Tichý, Ondřej and Vojtěch Ripl. Countability in Old English.
Tichý, Ondřej and Klára Přečkový. Countability in Middle English.
Cvrček, Václav and Ondřej Tichý. (forthcoming), DIACOL: Visualisation and analysis of collocations in diachronic perspective.
Selected Publications
Bullets:
Conferences
2026 ICOME „Tracing the Development of Countability in English: From Middle to Modern English“
2026 ICAME 47 “Benchmarking Large Language Modelsfor Linguistic Research“
2026 Joseph Bosworth & Old English Studies: Then, Now and the Future “Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online: The Story of a Dictionary and its Digitization”
2025 SELIM „Markers of Countability in Middle English & Tracing the Development of Countability Category in English”
2024 SLE 57 “Mass Nouns in Old English & the Roots of the Category of Countability in English“
2024 ICAME 45 „Analysis and visualization of semantic change using collocations in English and Czech“
2024 La Rioja Connection. International Network of Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence applied to language
2022 ICHLL11: 11th International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology (“Bosworth-Toller’s Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online”)
2021 Euralex (“Lexico-semantic database of Czech”)
2018 ICEHL XX, Edinburgh (“Spelling Variation in CEEC: A Quantitative Analysis”)
2018 DGfS 2018: 40. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Stuttgart (“Obsolescence of multi-word expressions in English, 1700-2000”)
2017 Chaucer in Bohemia, Paris Colloqium (“Til at the laste aslaked was his mood: reflections on figurative conceptualisations of anger in medieval English and Czech”)
2016 Využití diachronní korpusové analýzy, kolokvium Lingvistika Praha 2016, („Starší anglická korespondence“)
2016 Digital Britain: New Approaches To The Early Middle Ages („Sources of Bosworth-Toller’s Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online“)
2015 SELIM 27, Granada (“Corpus of Old English Lemmatization (COEL) – A Project Proposal”)
2015 Ox-Lex4, Oxford („Lexical obsolescence and loss: two methodological probes“)
2013 a 2014 Lingvistika Praha („Vizualizace vícerozměrných dat z velkých anglických diachronních korpusů“)
2012 ICAME 33, Leuven („Semantic Change Through Corpora: The Case of Collocability“)
2012 Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age, Cambridge University & King’s College London
2012 4th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics, Jaén („Measuring typological syntheticity of English diachronically with the use of corpora“)
2010 9th Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies
2009 ISAS: St. John’s, Newfoundland (“XML-TEI and the Anglo-Saxon Dictionary”
2008 XIII Euralex International Congress in Barcelona („An Anglo Saxon Dictionary and a Morphological Analyzer of Old English”)
Grants and Projects
2025- Countability in the History of English, The Czech Science Foundation (25-17430S)
2024- Advanced Training in Digitization of Older Texts — ANTIDOTE, Erasmus+ (KA220-HED-D3AFF6E)
2023- CoRe, Beyond Security: Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building. “Creating models of contemporary society’s response to crisis phenomena using digital tools.” Reg. Nr. CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004595.
2022- Digital Humanities Course. Part of Transformation for Universities at CU (reg. No. NPO_UK_MSMT-16602/2022)
Adjectival Postposition in English (APE). The Czech Science Foundation (19-05631S), 2019-2021.
2019-2021. Lexico-Semantic Database of Czech (LSD-CZ), The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic.
