--- title: "Pavel Kral — author profile and papers" description: "Pavel Kral, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 15 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pavel-kral/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pavel-kral/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Pavel Kral # Pavel Kral Pavel Kral has 3 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Speech act theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/), [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/); often with [Jakub Šmíd](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jakub-smid/), [Christophe Cerisara](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christophe-cerisara/). 3 papers in our library · 2024–2026 current affiliation [University of West Bohemia in Pilsen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-west-bohemia-in-pilsen/), Pilsen, Czechia [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5062260796) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3096-675X) · [**h-index 15**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5062260796) · [156 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5062260796) · [920 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5062260796&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pavel-kral/#papers) · [12 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pavel-kral/cited-by/) · 2 more works in our library · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4971](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/50/#star-4971) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Pavel+Kral) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Pavel+Kral) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Pavel+Kral) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Pavel+Kral) ## Affiliations - [University of West Bohemia in Pilsen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-west-bohemia-in-pilsen/) · Pilsen, Czechia —current · 2005–2026 on 100 papers - [Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-lorrain-de-recherche-en-informatique-et-ses-applications/) · Nancy, France —2006–2007 on 3 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Language models & pretraining 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Speech act theory 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Sentiment & emotion 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Dialogue systems 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pavel-kral/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/martinek-2024-comicorda-dialogue-act-recognition-comic/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[COMICORDA: Dialogue Act Recognition in Comic Books](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/martinek-2024-comicorda-dialogue-act-recognition-comic/)** *(2024 · 3 citations)* The authors build COMICORDA, over 1,400 comic panels (from the public COMICS collection and another source) with speech and narration balloons, corrected text, faces linked to balloons, and a dialogue act for each utterance, annotated by three people after the VERBMOBIL guide with additions: a separate Order class… 2. **[Large Language Models for Citation Function Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vodicka-2026-large-language-models-citation-function/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Citation counts treat every reference alike, but citations serve very different purposes. One may build on a method, another may dispute a finding. This paper examines how well current large language models can automatically label citation function. The authors benchmark four open LLMs (Mistral 7B, Orca 2-7B, LLaMA… 3. **[Extending Czech Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis with Opinion Terms: Dataset and LLM Benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/smid-2026-extending-czech-aspect-based-sentiment/)** *(2026)* Czech aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) has had no data with opinion term labels. As a result, tasks that link aspects, categories, opinions and polarity could only be studied in English. The authors extend the existing CsRest-M restaurant review corpus, which already has train, validation and test splits, with… ## Also in our library 2 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Jakub Šmíd](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jakub-smid/) ×2 - [Christophe Cerisara](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christophe-cerisara/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 12 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pavel-kral/cited-by/).