Showing papers on "Czech published in 2012"

Checklist of vascular plants of the Czech Republic

Abstract: A checklist of vascular plants of the Czech Republic is provided, based on the Kubat et al’s Key to the flora of the Czech Republic from 2002 and volumes 7 and 8 of the Flora of the Czech Republic as taxonomic reference, and incorporating numerous floristic, taxonomic and nomenclatural novelties. Native, alien, both naturalized and casual, as well as frequently cultivated taxa are included. Species, subspecies, nothospecies and nothosubspecies, and some frequently used variety names are listed. For cultivated plants, the taxonomic rank of Group is widely applied. For practical purposes, 188 species aggregates and other informal species groups are defined. References are made to corresponding taxonyms in the Key or the two Flora volumes when name or orthography changes occurred. Most important changes in nomenclature, taxonomy, recently described taxa and additions to the country’s flora are annotated. The flora of the Czech Republic includes 3557 species (plus 194 additional subspecies) and 609 (plus 13 additional nothospecies) hybrids. Of these, 2256 species are native, 464 naturalized (228 archaeophytes and 236 neophytes) and 837 casual aliens. Further, 324 cultivated taxa of different ranks are listed. The list includes categorizations of alien species of Pysek et al.’s second edition of the Catalogue of alien plants of the Czech Republic and Red List categorizations of Grulich’s third edition of the Red List of vascular plants of the Czech Republic, both published in Preslia in 2012.

Announcing Prague Czech-English Dependency Treebank 2.0

Abstract: We introduce a substantial update of the Prague Czech-English Dependency Treebank, a parallel corpus manually annotated at the deep syntactic layer of linguistic representation. The English part consists of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) section of the Penn Treebank. The Czech part was translated from the English source sentence by sentence. This paper gives a high level overview of the underlying linguistic theory (the so-called tectogrammatical annotation) with some details of the most important features like valency annotation, ellipsis reconstruction or coreference.

How grammaticized concepts shape event conceptualization in language production: Insights from linguistic analysis, eye tracking data, and memory performance

Abstract: The role of grammatical systems in profiling particular conceptual categories is used as a key in exploring questions concerning language specificity during the conceptualization phase in language production. This study focuses on the extent to which crosslinguistic differences in the concepts profiled by grammatical means in the domain of temporality (grammatical aspect) affect event conceptualization and distribution of attention when talking about motion events. The analyses, which cover native speakers of Standard Arabic, Czech, Dutch, English, German, Russian and Spanish, not only involve linguistic evidence, but also data from an eye tracking experiment and a memory test. The findings show that direction of attention to particular parts of motion events varies to some extent with the existence of grammaticized means to express imperfective/progressive aspect. Speakers of languages that do not have grammaticized aspect of this type are more likely to take a holistic view when talking about motion events and attend to as well as refer to endpoints of motion events, in contrast to speakers of aspect languages.

The Joy of Parallelism with CzEng 1.0

Abstract: CzEng 1.0 is an updated release of our Czech-English parallel corpus, freely available for non-commercial research or educational purposes. In this release, we approximately doubled the corpus size, reaching 15 million sentence pairs (about 200 million tokens per language). More importantly, we carefully filtered the data to reduce the amount of non-matching sentence pairs. CzEng 1.0 is automatically aligned at the level of sentences as well as words. We provide not only the plain text representation, but also automatic morphological tags, surface syntactic as well as deep syntactic dependency parse trees and automatic co-reference links in both English and Czech. This paper describes key properties of the released resource including the distribution of text domains, the corpus data formats, and a toolkit to handle the provided rich annotation. We also summarize the procedure of the rich annotation (incl. co-reference resolution) and of the automatic filtering. Finally, we provide some suggestions on exploiting such an automatically annotated sentence-parallel corpus.

MULTEXT-East: morphosyntactic resources for Central and Eastern European languages

Abstract: The paper presents the MULTEXT-East language resources, a multilingual dataset for language engineering research, focused on the morphosyntactic level of linguistic description. The MULTEXT-East dataset includes the morphosyntactic specifications, morphosyntactic lexica, and a parallel corpus, the novel "1984" by George Orwell, which is sentence aligned and contains hand-validated morphosyntactic descriptions and lemmas. The resources are uniformly encoded in XML, using the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines, TEI P5, and cover 16 languages, mainly from Central and Eastern Europe: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, English, Estonian, Hungarian, Macedonian, Persian, Polish, Resian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, and Ukrainian. This dataset, unique in terms of languages covered and the wealth of encoding, is extensively documented, and freely available for research purposes. The paper overviews the MULTEXT-East resources by type and language and gives some conclusions and directions for further work.

Consumer Ethnocentrism and Attitudes Towards Foreign Beer Brands: With Evidence from Zlin Region in the Czech Republic

Abstract: In modern times, consumer ethnocentrism has become an important strategic tool used by domestic firms in the face of global competition. However, the ability to use this phenomenon and its practical validity can vary in different industrial and cultural contexts. Hence, in this study, researchers address this issue by investigating the relationship between consumer eth- nocentrism and the attitudes of Czech customers towards foreign beer brands while paying special attention to whether the ethnocentric tendencies of the Czech customers are altered by demographic variables. The sample for this study was drawn from adult customers who live in the Zlin region in the Czech Republic. The group of students from the bachelor degree programme in management and economics, Tomas Bata Universty in Zlin were selected as enumerators for data collection. Altogether 155 questionnaires were distributed and 108 com- pleted questionnaires were taken in for final analysis. The consumer ethnocentric tendency was measured using the famous CETSCALE developed by Shimp and Sharma. Cronbach's Alpha values of each construct confirmed that a good interring reliability exists with the data. Principle component analysis was employed to determine the important factors of CETS- CALE and independent t test, correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis and one way ANOVA were used for testing hypotheses. The results revealed that the ethnocentric tendency of consumers is negatively correlated with the favorable attitudes of customers towards foreign beer brands in Czech Republic and also that highly ethnocentric customers hold less favorable attitudes towards foreign brands. Further findings revealed that there are no significant differ - ences between consumer ethnocentrism and all the demographic variables of Czech custom- ers. Finally, the researchers provide some suggestions for domestic brewery firms in the Czech Republic to develop appropriate branding strategies in considering consumer ethnocentrism as a strategic tool.

Large-scale processing, indexing and search system for Czech audio-visual cultural heritage archives

Abstract: This paper describes a complex system developed for processing, indexing and accessing data collected in large audio and audio-visual archives that make an important part of Czech cultural heritage. Recently, the system is being applied to the Czech Radio archive, namely to its oral history segment with more than 200.000 individual recordings covering almost ninety years of broadcasting in the Czech Republic and former Czechoslovakia. The ultimate goals are a) to transcribe a significant portion of the archive — with the support of speech, speaker and language recognition technology, b) index the transcriptions, and c) make the audio and text files fully searchable. So far, the system has processed and indexed over 75.000 spoken documents. Most of them come from the last two decades, but the recent demo collection includes also a series of presidential speeches since 1934. The full coverage of the archive should be available by the end of 2014.

Gender Wage Gap in the Czech Republic and Central European Countries

Abstract: This paper aims to quantify the basic structure of gender wage gaps in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, using the EU-SILC 2008 dataset. The structure of the gender wage gap is analyzed based on the Heckman selection model and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. The fi ndings are to a great extent similar for the Czech and Slovak Republics. The observed gender wage gap is relatively high in these two countries, compared to Hungary and Poland. A relatively small but positive part of the observed gender wage gap can be explained by gender differences in characteristics in the Czech and Slovak Republics, with a high contribution of job characteristics. An opposite result proved in Hungary and Poland, where working women have on average even better characteristics than working men, mainly in terms of individual characteristics.

Property Restitution and Private Rental Housing in Transition: The Case of the Czech Republic

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to explain one phenomenon evident in the transformation of post-socialist states that has received insufficient scholarly attention to date: the restitution of the housing stock in terms of its causes and consequences. In this paper, the theory of social constructivism, including Kemeny's advanced application of this theory to the field of housing studies, is used to (a) explain the causes for a particular type of property restitution in the Czech Republic and (b) outline its consequences on the role and long-term social meaning of private rental housing. This research explains how restitution was viewed by the main participants in this discourse, and how the whole process was legitimised and socially constructed in the Czech Republic. The evidence presented stems from a multi-method analysis of discourse that integrates the results of in-depth interviews, content analysis of the press, and an analysis of data from attitude surveys. The paper shows how the initial state of c...

Dynamics of new party formation in the Czech Republic 1996–2010: looking for the origins of a ‘political earthquake’

Abstract: The stable and closed nature of the Czech party system and the failure of most new political parties have been among the most salient features of Czech democracy over the past two decades. The results of the 2010 parliamentary elections seemed to mark a break with this pattern: support for two main parties slumped to historically low levels and two new parties, TOP09 and Public Affairs (VV), entered parliament. This article seeks to put the ‘political earthquake’ of 2010 into perspective by mapping the development of new parties in the Czech Republic from the mid-1990s and relating them to comparative literature and typologies of new party emergence. It concludes that of the two successful new parties in 2010, Public Affairs was, by far, the more novel and important phenomenon.

Czech spoken in Bohemia and Moravia

Abstract: As a western Slavic language of the Indo-European family, Czech is closest to Slovak and Polish. It is spoken as a native language by nearly 10 million people in the Czech Republic (Czech Statistical Office n.d.). About two million people living abroad, mostly in the USA, Canada, Austria, Germany, Slovakia, and the UK, claim Czech heritage (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic 2009). However, it is not known how many of them are native speakers of Czech. Sociolinguistically, the language situation in the Czech Republic bears diglossic features. There is a substantial gap between formal, highly codified language and the language used in everyday situations. Our aim is to describe the way most people speak most of the time rather than artificial orthoepic norms (for the latter see Palkova⁄ 1997: 320-345). Geographically, in the western part of the country (Bohemia and western Moravia) pronunciation is relatively homogeneous compared to the greater dialectal diversity of the east (the rest of Moravia), where several dialectal areas can be distinguished (Cvrˇcek 2010: 24). Still, there are a number of features common to Moravian dialects, distinguishing them clearly from the pronunciation of Bohemia and allowing native speakers to identify someone as either Bohemian or Moravian. The present paper elaborates on the earlier illustration of Czech (Dankovicˇova⁄ 1997a) by describing the differences between Bohemian Czech (BC), spoken by more than six million Czech citizens, and Moravian Czech (MC), spoken by about three-and-a-half million Czech citizens. At the same time, our illustration provides additional information about what both varieties have in common.

Corpus frequency and acceptability judgments: A study of morphosyntactic variants in Czech

Abstract: Abstract Using data from a 100-million-word representative corpus and a large-scale acceptability survey, we have investigated the relationship between corpus data and acceptability judgments. We conclude that the relative proportions of morphosyntactic variants in a corpus are the most significant predictor of a variant's acceptability to native speakers, and that in particular high relative proportions of one variant in a corpus are reliable indicators of high acceptability to native speakers. At the same time we note the limits of this predictability: low-frequency items, as noted elsewhere in the literature, often enjoy high levels of acceptability. Statistical preemption thus appears as a more limited phenomenon than had heretofore been posited.

Grapheme-to-phoneme model generation for Indo-European languages

Abstract: In this paper, we evaluate grapheme-to-phoneme (g2p) models among languages and of different quality. We created g2p models for Indo-European languages with word-pronunciation pairs from the GlobalPhone project and from Wiktionary [1]. Then we checked their quality in terms of consistency and complexity as well as their impact on Czech, English, French, Spanish, Polish, and German ASR. While the GlobalPhone dictionaries were manually cross-checked and have been used successfully in LVCSR, Wiktionary pronunciations have been provided by the Internet community and can be used to rapidely and economically create pronunciation dictionaries for new languages and domains.

Czech Militant Democracy in Action: Dissolution of the Workers’ Party and the Wider Context of This Act

Abstract: This article analyses the dissolution of the extreme right Workers’ Party by the Czech courts in 2010. It situates the case in the historical development of party closures by militant democracy on Czech territory and explains why the Workers’ Party was the first party to be dissolved in the Czech Republic after the fall of the Communist regime. It also describes the legislative framework in contemporary Czech law for the dissolution of political parties. It details the political and legal repercussions of the ruling and the wider discussions it provoked, not only in political and expert circles but also among the general public. Given the fact that the case was taken to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, the European dimension of the dissolution of the Workers’ Party is also analysed.

Environmental Behaviours in the Czech Republic, Austria and Germany between 1993 and 2010: Macro-Level Trends and Individual-Level Determinants Compared

Abstract: Comparing environmental behaviours in the neighbouring countries of Austria, the Czech Republic and Germany, this article discusses the national and individual level determinants of private and public environmental actions. For this purpose, survey data collected by the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) in 1993, 2000 and 2010 are analysed. The analysis reveals that values are more important for public behaviour and socio-demographics are more important for private behaviour. At the macro-level, an initial gap can be reported: Public and private behaviours were less frequent in the Czech Republic and also to a certain extent in East Germany. The gap between these former socialist countries and Austria and Germany has decreased over time. The convergence, however, happens at an overall low level of public behaviour and an overall high level of private behaviour.

Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Policy in the Czech Republic: Evidence Based on Various Identification Approaches in a VAR Framework

Abstract: The paper analyzes the macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy shocks in the Czech Republic. The low number of observations available for fiscal variables significantly affects the setup of the analysis. Firstly, a small-scale VAR is considered. Secondly, the model is estimated using Bayesian techniques. Finally, all identification approaches that are currently employed by the literature and that are applicable to the Czech Republic are used. The estimation results suggest that the fiscal policy transmission mechanism in the Czech Republic exhibits some standard features (e.g., a rise in GDP and inflation after unexpected government spending, and an increase in government spending after a positive shock to government revenues). However, the uncertainty associated with the results is substantial. Furthermore, it is discussed how the identification strategy itself may represent an additional source of uncertainty of the results.

Factors Influencing the Performance of Small to Medium-Sized Enterprises: An Empirical Study in the Czech Republic

Abstract: This paper discusses the conclusions of research projects undertaken at the University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic and which had the aim of measuring the performance of SMEs. Initially a pilot study of one company was used and this adopted, as a vehicle of study, the European Foundation for Quality Management model. Secondly, a more extensive study into a random sample of 50 firms was introduced. This was assembled from a database supplied by the Association of Small Businesses in the Czech Republic, by using a further six analytical components, developed at the University of West Bohemia. Thereafter, through the administration of multidimensional regression analysis the findings were analysed. The sample firms composed 13 in rubber and plastics; 20 in machinery; 12 in steel and steel products and 5 in mechanical engineering sectors. The conclusions have proven that more than 50% of the companies did not have a defined mission or strategy, more than 30% performed poorly in marketing activities, just 28% underwent certification approvals and 70% had no integrated supply chains. The challenges for the future of Czech SMEs are to improve product development, link into Czech Business Schools programmes and to learn more effectively from the most successful SMEs in developed countries. Over the past three decades it has become fashionable among academics to focus investigation on small and medium sized organisations (SMEs). The empirical and intellectual basis of much SME research is rather varied consequently, the work reported here builds upon SME research and more precisely links into the strategy paradigm. The business environment is increasingly characterised by permanent and rapid changes. These changes are caused by intensive global competition, developments in technology and better communication networks using the Internet. They influence the activities of all kinds of firms, but there arc special problems that affect SMEs more than larger businesses. More precisely they are often weak in their management calibre, they find considerable difficulties in accessing capital, they are poor negotiators when seeking funds and generally offer poorer products in an increasingly sensitive market place. Regardless of these barriers, SMEs represent a formidable economic force, creating 37% GDP of the Czech Republic and provide employment for 60% of the labour force. In particular this paper concentrates on performance measurement as it was perceived to be in a sample of firms within the Czech Republic, it progresses to analyse development potential among the sample firms. The methodological approach adopted is twofold. Firstly, a pilot study examined one Czech firm - Axis Ltd - by introducing an EFQM model. Secondly, a more extensive study into 95 firms was introduced using a further six analytical components, developed at the University of West Bohemia. The results combined to form a comprehensive body of works which add to our understanding of the performance of the sample firms. Quite clearly SMEs have a pivotal part to play in the economy of the Czech Republic, as Table 1 indicates. Research Objective To examine development potential using a set of tangible and intangible factors directly influencing the future success of contemporary SMEs in the Czech Republic. Background The critical role of managers consists of continuous assessment of a firm's performance and evaluation of competitive advantage aimed at seeking steady improvement and potential development. Such approaches have their roots in economic theory, emphasising economies of scale and critical market characteristics (Chandler, 1990, Porter, 1985, Hart, 1992 and Chaffee, 1985). However, standard procedures of performance assessment, which have been used in the past, do not necessarily reflect new entrepreneurship approaches. More recently the resource-based approach has developed, suggesting that how a firm cultivates and develops its resources can be significant in determining strategies, (Spender 1993, Lei, Hitt & Bertis, 1996). …

Human Response to Potential Robust Climate Change around 5500 cal BP in the Territory of Bohemia (the Czech Republic)

Abstract: IANSA 2012 ● III/1 ● 43–55 Dagmar Dreslerová: Human Response to Potential Robust Climate Change around 5500 cal BP in the Territory of Bohemia (the Czech Republic) 44 Figure 1. Map of discussed area (Bohemia, czech republic).

(Non-)retroflex Slavic affricates and their motivation: Evidence from Czech and Polish

Abstract: The Slavic affricate represented by /c/ is tacitly or explicitly assumed to be // for all Slavic languages. In this paper we revise the affricate inventories of Polish and Czech, showing that the symbol /c/ stands for two different sounds: the palatoalveolar // in Czech and the retroflex // in Polish. This conclusion is supported by acoustic results for Polish and Czech data. The fact that COG (centre of gravity) values of frication are not significantly different for Polish and Czech /c/ appears a bit surprising especially in light of the fact that COG is generally seen as a parameter contributing to the distinction of fricatives (including sibilants, see e.g. Gordon, Barthmaier & Sands 2002). Our results show that other parameters such as duration of the frication phase, F1 and F2 of the following vowel as well as spectral slopes are more reliable cues for distinguishing the small differences between affricates examined here.

A High-Quality Web Corpus of Czech

Abstract: In our paper, we present main results of the Czech grant project Internet as a Language Corpus, whose aim was to build a corpus of Czech web texts and to develop and publicly release related software tools. Our corpus may not be the largest web corpus of Czech, but it maintains very good language quality due to high portion of human work involved in the corpus development process. We describe the corpus contents (2.65 billions of words divided into three parts -- 450 millions of words from news and magazines articles, 1 billion of words from blogs, diaries and other non-reviewed literary units, 1.1 billion of words from discussions messages), particular steps of the corpus creation (crawling, HTML and boilerplate removal, near duplicates removal, language filtering) and its automatic language annotation (POS tagging, syntactic parsing). We also describe our software tools being released under an open source license, especially a fast linear-time module for removing near-duplicates on a paragraph level.

Movement Assessment Battery for Children - second edition: Cross-cultural comparison between 11–15 year old children from the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom

Abstract: Background: With the exception of specific clinical methods, no widely used diagnostic tool for motor development assessment of children exists in the Czech Republic. The Movement Assessment Battery for Children - second edition (MABC-2) seems to be one the most developed instruments for children's motor coordination assessment. However, to use it in the Czech population of children in educational and psychological practice including physical education, the cross-validity of the test battery needs to be examined. Objective: The aim of the study was to make a comparative analysis of performance in motor tasks of the MABC-2 measured in a Czech sample of 11-15 year old children and the United Kingdom (UK) normative sample from which the norms of the MABC-2 were established. Methods: The Czech sample of 11-15 year old children (total n = 589; 310 boys, 279 girls) formed from a random selection of schools from all the geographical regions of the Czech Republic and all size categories of municipalities, was tested by the MABC-2. The results were compared to the performance of the UK normative sample of the same age (n = 344) reported in the MABC-2 Examiner's Manual by Henderson et al. (2007). For this comparative analysis, the effects size coefficient (d) and the z-test were used. Results: From three manual dexterity tests of the MABC-2, mean performance of the Czech sample in the Drawing trail test was shown to be significantly higher than the mean performance of the UK sample in all the age groups of both genders (d = 0.68-1.32; p < 0.01). On the other hand, the Czech sample demonstrated no significant differences of performance in the gross motor coordination tests as compared to the performance of the UK sample. Regarding balance assessment, performance in the Two-board balance test (static balance) was found to be significantly higher in almost all the age groups of Czech girls (d = 0.52-0.70, p < 0.01), while Czech boys showed a significantly higher performance only in the Zig-zag hopping test (dynamic balance) at the ages of 14 and 15 years, as compared to the UK sample. In 1.9% of boys and 0.7% of girls in the Czech sample significant motor difficulties were identified (total test score ≤5th percentile). Conclusions: The study revealed that the MABC-2 is valid only for assessment of gross motor coordination in Czech children, but not for assessment of manual dexterity and balance. Before the use of this test battery for Czech children for both practical and research purposes, an adjustment of the norms is needed for the Drawing trail test, Two-board balance test and Zig-zag hopping test.

The Development of Czech Childcare Policies

Abstract: This book book describes the development of childcare policies in the Czech Republic and analyzes the myths that have arisen around it.

On-line Shopping on B2C Markets in the Czech Republic

Abstract: The paper deals with the e-commerce theory and is aimed primarily at its usage in business-to- consumer markets. On-line purchasing management is increasing not only in the Czech Repub- lic but also in Europe and all over the world. The customers who think rationally use on-line shopping because of money saving, speed delivery and the possibility of product comparison. This paper presents the results of a project financed by the Czech Science Foundation P403/11/ P175: The factors influencing customers' on-line behaviour in e-commerce environment on B2C and B2B markets in the Czech Republic. 89 % of respondents use e-shops for buying products in the Czech Republic. 32 % of them use the Internet for regular purchases and 57 % of them irregularly. 11 % of respondents have not used e-shops yet. More than 85 % of the world's online population has used the Internet to make a purchase - in- creasing the market for online shopping by 40 % in the past two years - according to the latest Nielsen Global Online Survey on Internet shopping habits. Globally, more than half of Internet users have made at least one purchase online in the past month, according to Nielsen. Among Internet users, the highest percentage shopping online is found in South Korea, where 99 % of those with Internet access have used it to shop, followed by the UK (97 %), Germany (97 %), Japan (97 %) with the U.S. eighth, at 94 %. (The Nielsen Company, 2008) The Internet and its tools no longer feel unfamiliar. Still the majority of its users are afraid of on-line purchases even though there are a number of advantages. Young generation is an exception. The Internet enables (together with new marketing approaches) customers as well as companies quickly and efficiently buy and sell goods or services. The area of e-commerce is still a new phenomenon in the Czech Republic and is worth exploring and developing. And it was one of the reasons to explore on-line buying behaviour in the Czech Republic. The main goal of this paper is to introduce the general view of on-line purchasing from e-shop users characteristics, their preferences, expenses, purchasing frequencies and main fears by on-line shopping acceptations point of view.

Korektor -- A System for Contextual Spell-Checking and Diacritics Completion

Abstract: We present Korektor - a flexible and powerful purely statistical text correction tool for Czech that goes beyond a traditional spell checker. We use a combination of several language models and an error model to offer the best ordering of correction proposals and also to find errors that cannot be detected by simple spell checkers, namely spelling errors that happen to be homographs of existing word forms. Our system works also without any adaptation as a diacritics generator with the best reported results for Czech text. The design of Korektor contains no language-specific parts other than trained statistical models, which makes it highly suitable to be trained for other languages with available resources. The evaluation demonstrates that the system is a state-of-the-art tool for Czech, both as a spell checker and as a diacritics generator. We also show that these functions combine into a potential aid in the error annotation of a learner corpus of Czech.

Czech National Phytosociological Database

Abstract: The Czech National Phytosociological Database (GIVD ID EU-CZ-001) was established in 1996 at Masaryk University in Brno. Currently it is hosted by the Department of Botany and Zoology of this university. It is an electronic archive of phytosociological releves and related records of species composition from vegetation plots which have been sampled on the territory of the Czech Republic. The data stored in the database are used for the development of new national vegetation classification of the Czech Republic, biodiversity analyses at local, regional, national and international level, as a source of information about distribution of plant communities and species, and for developing and testing new methods in the analysis of large sets of vegetation-plot data.

Food Quality Labels and their Perception by Consumers in the Czech Republic

Abstract: The paper deals with quality labels used in the food products market, especially with labels of quality, labels of origin, and labels of organic farming. The aim of the paper is to identify perception of these labels by consumers in the Czech Republic. The first part refers to the definition and specification of food quality labels that are relevant in the Czech Republic. The second part includes the discussion of marketing research results. Data were collected with personal questioning method. Empirical findings on 150 respondents are related to consumer awareness and perception of national and European food quality labels used in the Czech Republic, attitudes to purchases of labelled products, and interest in information regarding the labels. Statistical methods, in the concrete Pearson ́s chi-square test of independence, coefficient of contingency, and coefficient of association are used to determinate if significant differences do exist among selected demographic categories of Czech consumers. Keywords—Food quality labels, quality labels awareness, quality labels perception, marketing research.