Natural Language Processing Lab at BGU

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class="content-section show-it"> <h2>Research Topics</h2> <h3>EasyFirst Syntactic Dependency Parsing</h3> <ul> <li> <a href="../../~yoavg/software/easyfirst/">Parser Download Page</a> </li> </ul> <h3>Hebrew NLP</h3> <ul> <li> <a href="http://www.mila.cs.technion.ac.il/">Mila - Knowledge Center for Processing Hebrew</a> </li> <li> <a href = "../../~yoavg/data/hebdeptb/">Hebrew Treebank</a> </li> <li> <a href = "../../~yoavg/software/hebparsers/hebdepparser/">Hebrew Dependency Parser</a>, (<a href="../../~yoavg/depparse/">demo</a>) </li> <li> <a href = "../../~yoavg/software/hebparsers/hebconstparser/">Hebrew Constituency Parser</a>, (<a href="../../~yoavg/constparse/">demo</a>) </li> </ul> <li>Morphological Disambiguator for Hebrew</li> <ul> <li> <a href="demo">Online demo</a> </li> <li> <a href="../../~adlerm/dat/thesis.pdf">Paper</a> </li> </ul> <li>Hebrew Corpus</li> <ul> <li>Manually Annotated Corpus - treebank</li> <ul> <li> <a href="../../~adlerm/dat/tb.zip">Annotated Corpus</a> / <a href="../../~adlerm/tagging-guideline.pdf">Annotation Guidelines</a> </li> </ul> <li> Automatic Annotated Corpus -<a href="yoni/haaretz.bgu"> Haaretz</a> </li> <li> <a href="yoni/BguCorpusReader.py">BGU corpus reader</a> </li> </ul> <li>Named Entity Recognition in Hebrew <ul> <li><a href="naama">Online demo, description, download sources</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>Hebrew Vocalization (Nikud) <ul> <li><a href="hebrew-vocalization/">Automatic Vocalization of Hebrew verbs</a> (online demo).</li> <li><a href = "../../~elhadad/hocr/">OCR based vocalization</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>Name Transliteration (English → Hebrew) <ul> <li><a href="transliterated/desc.htm">Description</a></li> <li><a href="transliterated/transliterate.htm">Online demo</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>Topic Modeling in Hebrew <ul> <li><a href="LDAforHebrew.html">Description and package</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>Hebrew OCR with Tesseract <ul> <li><a href="hocr">Adapting Tesseract to Hebrew with Vocalization</a></li> <li><a href="hocr/doc">Python API to test Tesseract results on Hebrew with Vocalization</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>Recognizing Paraphrases in Hebrew <ul> <li><a href="paraphrase/main.html">Hebrew Paraphrase Identification using Deep Learning</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="splitsvm">splitSVM</a> - fast polynomial kernel classifier for NLP. </li> <li><a href="dependencyTrees.html">Dependency trees in Hebrew </a></li> </ul> <h3>Medical NLP</h3> <ul> <li>Medical Hebrew NLP</li> <ul> <li> <a href = "mednlp.html">Medical Hebrew NLP Resources</a> including: </li> <ul> <li> Medical Hebrew <a href="medicalclassification.html">Data Mining Suite</a> </li> <li> <a href="entitylinking.html">Entity Linking for Medical Hebrew</a> </li> <li> <a href="medmorph.html">Morphological Analyzer for Medical Hebrew</a> </li> </ul> </ul> <li>English Medical NLP</li> <ul> <li><a href = "http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/14/10">Redundancy in electronic health record corpora: analysis, impact on text mining performance and mitigation strategies (paper)</a> , <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/corpusredundanc/">Identifty corpus redundancy (code)</a></li> <li>Domain adaptation of a dependency parser with a class-class selectional preference model (<a href="https://aclweb.org/anthology/W12-3308">paper</a> - Google Best Paper Award)</li> <li><a href="easymed.html">Parsing in the Medical Domain</a></li> </ul> </ul> <h3>Text Summarization</h3> <ul> <li><a href="../../~elhadad/summary-test.html">Dataset for single document summarization</a> and results obtained using lexical chains. </li> <li><a href="../../~talbau/QCFS/dataset.html">Query Chain Focused Summarization (QCFS)</a> </li> </ul> <h3>Natural Language Generation (NLG)</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~elhadad/surge">SURGE and FUF</a> (English generation grammar) - <a href="../../~elhadad/install-fuf.html">Modern SBCL version of FUF (2012)</a></li> <li><a href="../../~yaeln/HUGG.html">HUGG</a> (Hebrew generation grammar)</li> <li><a href="saut/">SAUT</a> Semantic Authoring Tool </li> <li><a href="../../~bliss">Bliss Lexicon</a> </li> <li>NLG Applications for Augmentative and Alternative Communications (AAC)</li> </ul> </div> <div id="people" class="content-section"> <h2>People</h2> <p> <ul> <li><a href="../../~elhadad">Michael Elhadad</a></li> <li><a href="../../~yaeln">Yael Netzer</a></li> <li><a href="../../~adlerm">Meni Adler</a></li> <li><a href="../../~bene">Ben Eyal</a></li> <li>Roy Eisenstadt</li> <li>Eden Afouri</li> <li>Yarin Kuper</li> <li>Rina Galperin</li> <li>Nitzan Cohen</li> <li>Tair Hakman</li> <li>Amir Bachar</li> </ul> </p> <p> <h3>Past Members</h3> <ul> <li>Yonatan Bitton</li> <li><a href="../../~mataney">Matan Eyal</a></li> <li>Asi Sheffer</li> <li><a href="../../~schulman">Dan Schulman</a></li> <li><a href="../../~jumanan">Jumana Nassour-kassis</a></li> <li><a href="../../~cohenrap">Rafi Cohen</a></li> <li><a href="../../~talbau">Tal Baumel</a></li> <li><a href="../../~hayounav">Avi Hayoun</a></li> <li><a href="../../~yoavg">Yoav Goldberg</a></li> <li><a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/regina">Regina Barzilay</a></li> <li><a href="../../~mark">Mark Kharitonov</a></li> <li><a href="../../~barakb">Barak Bar Orion</a></li> <li><a href="../../~tebeka">Miki Tebeka</a></li> <li><a href="../../~gennadaa">Gennadiy Lemberskiy</a></li> <li><a href="../../~benmorde">Naama Ben-Mordecai</a></li> <li><a href="../../~billero">Ofer Biller</a></li> <li><a href="../../~hazai">Oren Hazai</a></li> <li><a href="../../~gabayd">David Gabay</a></li> <li><a href="../../~binnunn">Nadav Binnunn</a></li> <li><a href="../../~igram">Masha Igra</a></li> <li><a href="../../~erantom">Eran Tomer</a></li> <li><a href="../../~levyeh">Yoni Levv</a></li> <li><a href="../../~idoavi">Ido Aviram</a></li> <li><a href="../../~gabriels">Gabriel Stanovsky</a></li> </ul> </p> </div> <div id="publications" class="content-section"> <h2>Publications</h2> <ul> <li>Yonatan Bitton, Rafi Cohen, Tamar Schifter, Eitan Bachmat, Michael Elhadad, Noemie Elhadad, <em>Cross-lingual Unified Medical Language System Entity Linking in Online Health Communities</em>, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 27 (10) 1585-1592 (2020), <a href="https://academic.oup.com/jamia/article/27/10/1585/5903800">paper</a> </li> <li>Ben Eyal, Michael Elhadad, <em>Building a Hebrew Semantic Role Labeling Lexical Resource from Parallel Movie Subtitles</em>, Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020), 5934-5942, <a href="http://lref-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2020/pdf/2020.lrec-1.727.pdf">paper</a> </li> <li>Raphael Cohen, Michael Elhadad, <em>Sideways Transliteration: How to Transliterate Multicultural Person Names?</em>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12022">paper</a>, 2019 </li> <li>Matan Eyal, Tal Baumel, Michael Elhadad <em>Question Answering as an Automatic Evaluation Metric for News Article Summarization</em>, NAACL 2019, <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1906.00318">paper</a> </li> <li>Jumana Nassour, Michael Elhadad, Arnon Sturm, Eric Yu, <em>Evaluating the Comprehension of Means-Ends Maps</em>, Software and Systems Modeling 18 (3), 1885-1903, (2019) </li> <li>Tal Baumel, Michael Elhadad, <em>A Survey of Neural Models for Abstractive Summarization</em>, Multilingual Text Analysis: Challenges, Models and Approaches, Marina Litvak and Natalia Vanetik, Editors, (2019) </li> <li>Jumana Nassour, Dmitry Leykin, Michael Elhadad, Odelia Cohen, <em>Computational Text Analysis of a Scientific Resilience Management Corpus: Environmental Insights and Implications</em>, Journal of Environmental Informatics (36), 2019 </li> <li>Tal Baumel, Matan Eyal, Michael Elhadad, <em>Query Focused Abstractive Summarization: Incorporating Query Relevance, Multi-Document Coverage, and Summary Length Constraints into seq2seq Models</em>, arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.07704, (2018) <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07704">paper</a> </li> <li>Jumana Nassour, Michael Elhadad, Arnon Sturm, Eric Yu, <em>Evaluating the comprehension of means-ends maps</em>, Software & Systems Modeling, Springer, 2018 <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10270-018-0691-4">paper</a> </li> <li>Tal Baumel, Jumana Nassour-Kassis, Raphael Cohen, Michael Elhadad, Noemie Elhadad <em>Multi-label classification of patient notes a case study on ICD code assignment</em>, Workshops at the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2018, <a href="https://aaai.org/ocs/index.php/WS/AAAIW18/paper/view/16881/15610">paper</a> </li> <li>Tal Baumel, Raphael Cohen, Michael Elhadad, <em>Sentence embedding evaluation using pyramid annotation</em>, Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Evaluating Vector-Space Representations for NLP (2016) <a href="http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W16-2526">paper</a> </li> <li>Avi Hayoun and Michael Elhadad, <em>The Hebrew FrameNet Project</em>, LREC (2016), <a href="http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/pdf/434_Paper.pdf">paper</a> </li> <li>Tal Baumel, Raphael Cohen and Michael Elhadad, <em>Topic Concentration in Query Focused Summarization Dataset </em> AAAI (2016), <a href="pub/aaai16.pdf">paper</a>. </li> <li>Raphael Cohen, Iddo Aviram, Michael Elhadad, Noemie Elhadad, <em>Redundancy-Aware Topic Modeling for Patient Record Notes</em>, PLOS One (2014), <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0087555">paper</a> </li> <li>Tal Baumel, Raphael Cohen and Michael Elhadad.<em>Query-Chain Focused Summarization </em> ACL (2014), <a href="http://aclweb.org/anthology/P14-1086">paper</a>. </li> <li>Raphael Cohen and Michael Elhadad, <em>Effect of Out Of Vocabulary terms on inferring eligibility criteria for a retrospective study in Hebrew EHR</em> Proceedings of the 2013 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (2013), <a href="http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W13-1915">paper</a> </li> <li>Yoav Goldberg, Michael Elhadad, <em>Word segmentation, unknown-word resolution, and morphological agreement in a hebrew parsing system</em>, Computational Linguistics, 39/1 pp121-160, MIT Press (2013) <a href="https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/COLI_a_00137">paper</a> </li> <li>Raphael Cohen, Michael Elhadad and Ohad Birk.<em>Analysis of free online physician advice services</em> PLOS ONE (2013), <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0059963">paper</a>. </li> <li>Raphael Cohen, Michael Elhadad and Noemie Elhadad. <em>Redundancy in electronic health record corpora: analysis, impact on text mining performance and mitigation strategies</em> BMC bioinformatics (2013), <a href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/14/10">paper</a></li> <li>Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad, <em>Precision-biased Parsing and High-Quality Parse Selection</em>, arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.4387, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4387">paper</a> </li> <li>Raphael Cohen and Michael Elhadad. <em>Syntactic Dependency Parsers for Biomedical-NLP</em>, AMIA Symposium 2012 (<a href="fs/Syntactic%20Dependency%20Parsers%20for%20Biomedical-%20final.pdf">pdf</a>).</li> <li>Raphael Cohen, Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad. <em>Domain Adaptation of a Dependency Parser with a Class-Class Selectional Preference Model</em> ACL 2012 - Student Workshop. Google Best Paper Award. (<a href="https://aclweb.org/anthology/W12-3308">paper</a>) <li>Shay Zakov, Yoav Goldberg, Michael Elhadad and Michal Ziv-Ukelson, <em>Rich Parameterization improves RNA Structure Prediction.</em> Journal of Computational Biology. November 2011: 1525-1542.(<a href="http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/cmb.2011.0184">paper</a>) </li> <li>Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad, <em>Joint Hebrew Segmentation and Parsing using a PCFGLA Lattice Parser</em>. ACL-2011 (Short Paper) (<a href="../../~yoavg/publications/acl2011hebparse.pdf">pdf</a>)</li> <li> Raphael Cohen, Avitan Gefen, Michael Elhadad and Ohad S Birk, <em>CSI-OMIM - Clinical Synopsis Search in OMIM</em>. BMC Bioinformatics 2011, 12:65, <a href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/12/65">BioMed Central</a>.</li> <li> Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad, <em>An Efficient Algorithm for Easy-First Non-Directional Dependency Parsing</em>, NAACL 2010, Los Angeles,<BR> (<a href="../../~elhadad/papers/naacl2010.pdf">pdf</a>).</li> <li> Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad, <em>Easy-First Dependency Parsing of Modern Hebrew</em>, SPMRL 2010, an NAACL/HLT workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages, Los Angeles,<BR> (<a href="../../~elhadad/papers/sprml2010.pdf">pdf</a>).</li> <li> Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad, <em>Hebrew Dependency Parsing: Initial Results</em>, IWPT-2009, Paris,<BR> (<a href="../../~elhadad/papers/sprml2010.pdf">pdf</a>).</li> <li> Michael Elhadad, David Gabay and Yael Netzer, Automatic Evaluation of Search Ontologies in the Entertainment Domain using Natural Language Processing. (<a href="pub/OntologyEvaluation6.pdf">pdf</a>),<br> To appear in <em>Applied Semantic Web Technology</em>, Taylor and Francis Publishers, 2010, Ed. Vijayan Sugumaran and Jon Gulla.</li> <li> Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad, <em>On the Role of Lexical Features in Sequence Labeling</em>, EMNLP 2009, Singapore,<BR>(<A href="pub/emnlp09.pdf">pdf</A>).</li> <li> Yael Netzer, David Gabay, Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad, <em>Gaiku : Generating Haiku withWord Associations Norms</em>, in NAACL Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity, 2009<BR>(<A HREF="pub/calc09.pdf">pdf</A>).</li> <li> Yael Netzer, David Gabay, Meni Adler, Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad, <em>Ontology Evaluation Through Text Classification</em>, ENQOIR 2009, Suzhou, China, <BR>(<A HREF="pub/enqoir09.pdf">pdf</A>).</li> <li> Yoav Goldberg, Reut Tsarfaty, Meni Adler and Michael Elhadad, <em>Enhancing Unlexicalized Parsing Performance using aWide Coverage Lexicon, Fuzzy Tag-set Mapping, and EM-HMM-based Lexical Probabilities</em>, EACL 2009, Athens, Greece, <BR>(<A HREF="pub/eacl09.pdf">pdf</A>). </li> <li> David Gabay, Ziv Ben-Eliahu and Michael Elhadad, <em>Using Wikipedia Links to Construct Word Segmentation Corpora</em>, in Proceedings of the WIKIAI-08 Workshop, AAAI-2008 Conference, Chicago,<BR>(<A HREF="../../~ben-elia/courses/papers/WikiSegmentation.pdf">pdf</A>). </li> <li> Meni Adler, Yoav Goldberg, David Gabay and Michael Elhadad, <em>Unsupervised Lexicon-Based Resolution of Unknown Words for Full Morphological Analysis</em>, ACL 2008,<BR>(<A HREF = "../../~adlerm/publications/acl08-unknowns.pdf">pdf</A>).</li> <li> Yoav Goldberg, Meni Adler and Michael Elhadad, <em>EM Can Find Pretty Good HMM POS-Taggers (When Given a Good Start)</em>, ACL 2008,<BR>(<A HREF = "../../~adlerm/publications/acl08-init.pdf">pdf</A>).</li> <li> Yoav Goldberg and Reut Tsarfaty, <em>A Single Generative Model for Joint Morphological Segmentation and Syntactic Parsing </em>, ACL 2008, <BR>(<A HREF = "../../~yoavg/publications/acl2008hebparse.pdf">pdf</A>).</li> <li> Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad, <em>splitSVM: Fast, Space-Efficient, non-Heuristic, Polynomial Kernel Computation for NLP Applications</em>, ACL 2008 (short paper), <BR>(<A HREF = "../../~yoavg/publications/acl2008fastsvm.pdf">pdf</A>, <A href="splitsvm/">code</A>). </li> <li> Meni Adler, Yael Netzer, David Gabay, Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad, <em>Tagging a Hebrew Corpus: The Case of Participles</em>, LREC 2008, <BR>(<A HREF = "../../~adlerm/publications/beinoni.pdf">pdf</A>). </li> <li> Yoav Goldberg and Reut Tsarfaty, <em>Word-Based or Morpheme-Based? Annotation Strategies for Modern Hebrew Clitics</em>, LREC 2008, <BR>(<A HREF = "../../~yoavg/publications/lrec2008collapse.pdf">pdf</A>). </li> <li> Yael Netzer, Meni Adler and Michael Elhadad, <em>Word Prediction in Hebrew – Preliminary and Surprising Results</em>, ISAAC 2008, <BR>(<A HREF = "../../~adlerm/publications/heb-word-prediction.pdf">pdf</A>). </li> <li> Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad, <em>Identification of Transliterated Foreign Words in Hebrew Script</em> , CICLING 2008, <BR>(<A HREF = "../../~yoavg/publications/ForeignWordsArtCameraReady.pdf">pdf</A>). </li> <li> Yael Netzer, Meni Adler, David Gabay, and Michael Elhadad, <em>Can you tag the modal? You should</em>, in Proceedings of the ACL 2007 Workshop on Semitic Languages Processing, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2007, <br> (8 pages, 89K, <A HREF = "http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~adlerm/publications/ACL07.pdf">pdf</A>). </li> <li> Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad, <em>SVM Model Tampering and Anchored Learning: A Case Study in Hebrew NP Chunking</em>, in Proceedings ACL 2007, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2007, <br> (8 pages, 178K, <A HREF = "http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~elhadad/papers/acl2007tampering.pdf">pdf</A>). </li> <li> Yael Netzer , Ofer Biller, Michael Elhadad and Yoav Goldberg, <em>Generating Language from BlissSymbols Using Semantic Authoring</em>, in Proceedings of 12th Biennial International Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Dusseldorf, Germany, August 2006, <br> (<A HREF = "http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~elhadad/papers/isaac2006bliss.doc">doc</A>, <a href="saut/">system</a>) </li> <li> Meni Adler and Michael Elhadad, <em>An Unsupervised Morpheme-Based HMM for Hebrew Morphological Disambiguation</em>, in Proceedings of COLING-ACL 2006, Sydney, Australia, July 2006, <br> (8 pages, 140K, <A HREF = "http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~adlerm/publications/ACL06-1.pdf">pdf</A>) </li> <li> Yoav Goldberg, Meni Adler, and Michael Elhadad, <em>Noun Phrase Chunking in Hebrew Influence of Lexical and Morphological Features</em>, in Proceedings of COLING-ACL 2006, Sydney, Australia, July 2006, <br> (8 pages, 207K, <A HREF = "http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~adlerm/publications/ACL06-2.pdf">pdf</A>) </li> <li> Yael Netzer <em>From Symbols to Language</em>, Israeli Annual of ISAAC (Israeli Chapter of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, June 2006, <br> (in Hebrew, <A HREF = "http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~yaeln/papers/isaac-shnaton06.doc">doc</A>) </li> <li> Yael Netzer and Michael Elhadad, <em>Using Semantic Authoring for Blissymbols Communication Boards</em>, in Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, (Poster Session), New York, USA, June 4-9, 2006, <br> (<A HREF = "http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~yaeln/papers/naacl06.pdf">paper</A>,<A HREF = "http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~yaeln/papers/poster.ppt">poster</A>) </li> <li> Ofer Biller, Michael Elhadad and Yael Netzer, <em>Interactive Authoring of Logical Forms for Multilingual Generation</em>, in Proceedings of the European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Aberdeen, 2005, <br> (8 pages, 92K, <A HREF = "http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~elhadad/papers/enlg05.pdf">pdf</A>) </li> <LI> Michael Elhadad, Yael Netzer, Regina Barzilay, Kathleen McKeown <em>Ordering Circumstantials for Multi-document Summarization</em> Presented at <em>BISFAI'01</em>, June 2001, <br> (15 pages, 210K <a href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~elhadad/papers/bisfai01.pdf"> pdf</a>) </li> <LI> Hongyan Jing, Yael Dahan Netzer, Michael Elhadad, Kathleen McKeown <em>Integrating a Large-Scale, Reusable Lexicon with a Natural Language Generator</em> <em>Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Natural Language Generation</em>, Mitzpe Ramon, 2000, pp.209--216 <br> (8 pages, 73K <a href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~elhadad/papers/inlg2000.ps.gz"> postscript gzipped</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~yaeln/papers/inlg2000.pdf">pdf</a>) </li> <LI> Yael Dahan-Netzer & Michael Elhadad <em>Bilingual Hebrew-English Generation of Possessives and Partitives: Raising the Input Abstraction Level</em> <em>Proceedings of the 37th meeting of the ACL</em>, Maryland, 1999, pp.144--151 <br> 69K <a href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~elhadad/papers/acl99.ps.gz"> postscript gzipped</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~elhadad/papers/acl99.dvi">dvi</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~elhadad/papers/acl99.pdf">pdf</a>)) </li> <li>R. Barzilay, K. McKeown and M. Elhadad, <em>Information Fusion in the Context of Multi-Document Summarization</em> in <em>Proc. of the 37th Association for Computational Linguistics</em>, Maryland, 1999, pp550--557. <br> (8 pages, 330K <a href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~elhadad/papers/fusion.ps.gz">postscript gzipped</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~elhadad/papers/fusion.pdf">pdf</a> ) </li> <LI> Yael Dahan-Netzer & Michael Elhadad <em>Generation of Noun Compounds in Hebrew: Can Syntactic Knowledge be Fully Encapsulated?</em> <em>Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Natural Language Generation (INLG'98)</em>, Niagara on the Lake, Ontario, 1998. <br> (10 pages, 45K <a href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~elhadad/papers/inlg98.ps.gz"> postscript gzipped</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~elhadad/papers/inlg98.dvi"> dvi</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~elhadad/papers/inlg98.pdf"> pdf</a> ) </li> <LI> Yael Dahan-Netzer & Michael Elhadad <em>Generating Determiners and Quantifiers in Hebrew</em> <em>Proceedings of the Workshop on Semitic Languages, ACL'98</em>, Montreal, Quebec, 1998. <br> (9 pages, 41K <a href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~elhadad/papers/semitic.ps.gz"> postscript gzipped</a>, 37K <a href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~elhadad/papers/semitic.dvi"> dvi</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~elhadad/papers/semitic.pdf"> pdf</a>) </li> <li> Hongyan Jing, Regina Barzilay, Kathleen McKeown, and Michael Elhadad ``Summarization Evaluation Methods: Experiments and Analysis'', <em>AAAI Symposium on Intelligent Summarization</em>, March 23-25, 1998, Stanford University, CA. <br> (9 pages, 53K <A HREF="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~elhadad/papers/sum-eval.ps.gz">ps gzip</A> <A HREF="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~elhadad/papers/sum-eval.pdf">pdf</A>) </li> <LI> Regina Barzilay & Michael Elhadad ``Using Lexical Chains for Text Summarization'', in Proceedings of the Intelligent Scalable Text Summarization Workshop (ISTS'97), ACL, Madrid, 1997. <br> (9 pages, 198K <A HREF="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~elhadad/papers/summary.ps">ps</A>, 58K <A HREF="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~elhadad/papers/summary.ps.gz">ps gzip</A> <A HREF="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~elhadad/papers/summary.pdf">pdf</A>) </li> </ul> </div> <div id="theses" class="content-section"> <h2>Theses</h2> <ul> <li>Matan Eyal, <em>Question Answering as an Automatic Summarization Evaluation Metric</em>, MSc Thesis, Sep 2018, <a href="pub/matan-msc.pdf">pdf</a>. </li> <li>Dan Schulman, <em>Recognizing and Generating Natural Language Referring Expressions in Images</em>, MSc Thesis, Aug 2018, <a href="pub/dan-msc.pdf">pdf</a>. </li> <li>Ben Eyal, <em>Building a Hebrew FrameNet Lexical Resource from Parallel Movie Subtitles</em>, MSc Thesis, Feb 2018, <a href="pub/ben-msc.pdf">pdf</a>, <a href="pub/ben-msc-slides.pdf">slides</a>. </li> <li>Asi Sheffer, <em>Natural Language Object Retrieval with Cross Domain Retrieval</em>, MSc Thesis, Feb 2018 <a href="pub/asi-msc.pdf">pdf</a>. </li> <li>Tal Baumel, <em>Query Focused Summarization Using Seq2seq Models</em>, PhD Thesis, Jan 2018 <a href="pub/tal-phd.pdf">pdf</a>. </li> <li>Tal Baumel, <em>Query Chain Focused Summarization</em>, MSc Thesis, Mar 2014, <a href="pub/Tal_Msc.pdf">pdf</a>. </li> <li>Raphael Cohen, <em>Towards Understanding of Medical Hebrew</em>, PhD Thesis, Nov 2012, <a href="pub/RaphaelCohenThesis.pdf">pdf</a>. </li> <li>Iddo Aviram, <em>Effective Topics Models for Query Retrieval Task and Redundant Corpora</em>, MSc Thesis, Sep 2012, <a href="pub/iddo.pdf">pdf</a>. </li> <li>Eran Tomer, <em>Automatic Hebrew Text Vocalization</em>, MSc Thesis, January 2012, (<a href="hebrew-vocalization/resources/main.pdf">pdf</a>, <a href="hebrew-vocalization">online demo</a>). </li> <li>Masha Igra, <em>Use of LDA Topics in Aspect and Sentiment Analysis</em>, MSc Thesis, January 2013, (<a href="pub/masha.pdf">pdf</a>, <a href="pub/masha-slides.pdf">slides pdf</a>). </li> <li>Gabriel Stanovsky, <em>A Study in Hebrew Paraphrase Identification</em>, MSc Thesis, Dec 2012, (<a href="paraphrase/Thesis.pdf">pdf</a>, <a href="paraphrase/presentation.pdf">slides</a>, <a href="paraphrase/main.html">full description</a>). </li> <li>Yoni Lev, <em>Statistics-Based Methods for Error Detection and Correction in Modern Hebrew</em> , MSc Thesis, Ben Gurion University, Israel, December 2012 (<a href="pub/yoni lev - thesis.pdf">pdf</a>).</li> <li>Yoav Goldberg, <em>Automatic Syntactic Processing of Modern Hebrew</em>, PhD Thesis, Ben Gurion University, Israel, June 2011. (<a href="pub/yoav-phd.pdf">pdf</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~yoavg/uni/hebrewparsing.he.html">hebrew online demo</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~yoavg/software/">software</a>) </li> <li>David Gabay, <em>"Authorship Attribution in Modern Hebrew"</em>, Msc. Thesis, Ben Gurion University, Israel, June 2008. <br> (<a href="dudi/Authorship Attribution thesis - English Cover.pdf">abstract</a>, <a href="dudi/Authorship Attribution in Hebrew-1.pdf">pdf</a>) </li> <li> Meni Adler, <em>Hebrew Morphological Disambiguation: An Unsupervised Stochastic Word-based Approach</em>, Phd. Thesis, Ben Gurion University, September 2007. <BR> (<A HREF = "http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~adlerm/dat/thesis.pdf">pdf</A>, <a href="demo">online demo</a>) </li> <li>Oren Hazai, <em>"Text Categorization using Lexical Chains"</em>, Msc. Thesis, Ben Gurion University, Israel, March 2006. <br> (<a href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~hazai/hazai06thesis.pdf">pdf</a>) </li> <li> Yael Netzer, <em>Semantic Authoring for Blissymbols Augmentative Communication Using Multilingual Text Generation</em>, Phd. Thesis, Ben Gurion University, November 2005. <BR> (<A HREF = "http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~yaeln/papers/yael-netzer-thesis.pdf">pdf</A>) </li> <li>Naama Ben Mordecai, <em>"Hebrew Named Entity Recognition"</em>, Msc. Thesis, Ben Gurion University, Israel, September 2005. <br> (<a href="naama/Thesis.pdf">pdf</a>, <a href="naama">online demo and package</a>) </li> <li>Ofer Biller, <em>"Semantic Authoring for Multilingual Text Generation"</em>, Msc. Thesis, Ben Gurion University, Israel, March 2005. <br> (<a href="pub/ofer-thesis.pdf">pdf</a>, <a href="saut/">SAUT package</a>) </li> <li>Gennadiy Lembersky, <em>Named entity recognition in Hebrew language; Hebrew Multiword Expression: approaches and recognition methods</em>, Msc. Thesis, Ben Gurion University, Israel, March 2003. <br> (<a href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~gennadaa/thesis.pdf">pdf</a> , <a href="hebrewNER/download.html">package</a>) </li> <li>Kharitonov Mark,<em>CFUF: A Fast Interpreter for the Functional Unification Formalism</em>, Msc. Thesis, Ben Gurion University, Israel, November 1998. <br> (<a href="cfuf/paper.pdf">pdf</a>) </li> <li>Regina Barzilay, <em>Lexical Chains for Summarization</em>, MSc. Thesis, November 1997, <a href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~elhadad/barzilay.pdf">pdf</a>.</li> <li>Yael Dahan Netzer <em>"Design and Evaluation of a Functional Input Specification Language for the Generation of Bilingual Nominal Expressions (Hebrew/English)"</em> Msc. Thesis, Ben Gurion University, November 1997. <br> (<a href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~yaeln/papers/THESIS3.pdf">pdf</a>) </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="demos" class="content-section"> <h2>Demos</h2> <ul> <li>EasyFirst Syntactic Dependency Parsing</li> <ul> <li><a href="../../~yoavg/depparse/">Hebrew Dependency Parser demo</a></li> <li><a href="../../~yoavg/constparse/">Hebrew Constituency Parser demo</a></li> </ul> <li><a href="demo/">Morphological Disambiguator for Hebrew demo </a></li> <li><a href="entitylinking.html">Entity Linking for Medical Hebrew</a></li> <li><a href="naama/demo/demo.html">Named Entity Recognition in Hebrew</a></li> <li><a href="hebrew-vocalization/">Automatic Vocalization of Hebrew verbs</a></li> <li><a href="transliterated/transliterate.htm">Name Transliteration (English → Hebrew)</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="seminar" class="content-section"> <h2>Fall 2013 Seminar</h2> <ul> <li>Avi Hayon: <a href="https:seminar/fsp.pdf">Frame-Semantic Parsing</a></li> <li>Avi Hayon: <a href="https:seminar/hebsrl.pdf">Hebrew SRL - first steps</a></li> <li>Imri Heppner: <a href="seminar/HebFN.pdf">Hebrew FrameNet</a></li> <li>Jumana Nassour: <a href="seminar/relgrams.pdf">Generating Coherent Event Schemas at Scale</a></li> <li>Michael Elhadad: <a href="seminar/QueryChainFocusedSummarization.pptx">Query Chain Focused Summarization</a></li> <li>Tal Baumel: <a href="seminar/deeplearning.pdf">Deep Learning</a></li> <li>Tal Baumel: <a href="https://yoavartzi.com/pub/afz-tutorial.acl.2013.pdf">Semantic Parsing</a> by <a href="http://yoavartzi.com/">Yoav Artzi</a></li> <li>Rafi Cohen EMC blog: <a href="https://blog.dellemc.com/en-us/text-analytics-easy-classification-for-routing-service-requests/">Text Classification with Python for the Corporate Data Scientist</a></li> </ul> </div> <hr> <div id="footer"> <script type="text/javascript">  </script> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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