She went on to graduate with a PhD and a DrSc (Doctor of Sciences) degree in general and computational linguistics.

She works at her Alma mater, Charles University, where her research interest areas include corpus linguistics, as well as computational areas in semantic and syntactic sentence structure[3] Her participation in research has reached many publications, organizations, and boards.

She also became a part of research or intellectually focused organizations, with membership in the International Committee of Computational Linguistics from 1978 to present, first chair and founding board member of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics from 1982 to 1987,[4] chairpersonship of the Prague Linguistic Circle from 1997 to 2006, presidency and fellowship in the International Association for Computational Linguistics in 1998, elected membership in the Learned Society of Czech Republic from 2004 to present, and presidency and honorary membership in the Societas Linguistica Europaea from 2006 to 2007.

The description is dependency-based, integrating both the syntactic structure of natural language and the topic-focus articulation, or the information that is intended for communication.

[6] She assisted in creating and updating The Prague Dependency Treebank, a database of Czech Language annotated with three tiers of linguistic information.