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Kfir Bar, Nachum Dershowitz, and Lena Dankin, 2022, “Metaphor Interpretation Using Word Embeddings”, International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Applications (IJCLA).
Lior Wolf and Nachum Dershowitz, 2023, “Consolidating the Results of Automatic Search in Large Scale Digital Collections”, chap. 8 in Digital Palaeography, Stewart Brookes, Malte Rehbein, and Peter Stokes, eds., Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities Series, Routledge, UK.
Noga Levy, Lior Wolf, Nachum Dershowitz, and Peter A. Stokes, 2023, “Estimating the Distinctiveness of Graphemes and Allographs in Palaeographic Classification”, chap. 6 in Digital Palaeography, Stewart Brookes, Malte Rehbein, and Peter Stokes, eds., Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities Series, Routledge, UK.
Hadar Miller, Yoav Philips, Tsvi Kuflik, Moshe Lavee, Nachum Dershowitz, and Samuel Londner, December 2021, “Towards Automatic Cataloguing of Hebrew Manuscripts” (Abstract), Second Workshop on Digital Technologies to Study the Past and Present (SfP 2021), Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee.
Francesca Anichini, Nachum Dershowitz, Nevio Dubbini, Gabriele Gattiglia, Barak Itkin, and Lior Wolf, Apr. 2021, “The Automatic Recognition of Ceramics from Only One Photo. The ArchAIDE App”, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Special issue on the European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics (EMAC), vol. 36, no. 102788.
Barak Itkin, Lior Wolf, and Nachum Dershowitz, February 2021, “Computational Visual Ceramicology: Matching Image Outlines to Catalog Sketches”, Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), AISI 7467. Supplementary.
Ori Terner, Kfir Bar, and Nachum Dershowitz, December 2020, “Transliteration of Judeo-Arabic Texts into Arabic Script Using Recurrent Neural Networks”, The Fifth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP 2020), co-located with COLING'2020, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 85-96.
Eshbal Ratzon and Nachum Dershowitz, October 2020, “The Length of a Scroll: Quantitative Evaluation of Material Reconstructions”, PLoS ONE, vol. 15, no. 10, art. e0239831.
Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra, Bronson Brown-DeVost, Nachum Dershowitz, Alexey Pechorin, and Benjamin Kiessling, September 2020, “Transcription Alignment for Highly Fragmentary Historical Manuscripts: The Dead Sea Scrolls”, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR), Dortmund, Germany, pp. 361-366.
Taivanbat Badamdorj, Adiel Ben-Shalom, Nachum Dershowitz, and Lior Wolf, July 2020, “Fast Search with Poor OCR” (Extended Abstract), Abstracts of Digital Humanities (DH 2020), Ottawa, Canada.
Francesca Anichini, Nachum Dershowitz, Gabriele Gattiglia, Barak Itkin, Lior Wolf, Holly Wright, and Massimo Zallocco, April 2020, “One Photo One Type. ArchAIDE, an Integrated System to Recognise Archaeological Pot-Sherds with Deep Learning”, 48th Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference (CAA), Oxford, UK.
Francesca Anichini, Francesco Banterle, Jaume Buxeda i Garrigós, Marco Callieri, Nachum Dershowitz, Diego Lucendo Diaz, Tim Evans, Gabriele Gattiglia, Maria Letizia Gualandi, Miguel Ángel Hervás, Barak Itkin, Marisol Madrid i Fernández, Eva Miguel Gascón, Michael Remmy, Julian Richards, Roberto Scopigno, Llorenç Vila, Lior Wolf, Holly Wright, and Massimo Zallocco, March 2020, “Developing the ArchAIDE Application: A Digital Workflow for Identifying, Organising and Sharing Archaeological Pottery Using Automated Image Recognition”, Internet Archaeology, vol. 52.
Nachum Dershowitz, Adiel Ben-Shalom, and Lior Wolf, January 2020, “Computerized Paleography: Tools for Historical Manuscripts” (Abstract), Neo-Palaeography: Analysing Ancient Greek and Coptic Handwritings in the Digital Age, Basel.
Sivan Keret, Lior Wolf, Nachum Dershowitz, Eric Werner, Orna Almogi, and Dorji Wangchuk, September 2019, “Transductive Learning for Reading Handwritten Tibetan Manuscripts”, Proceedings of the IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), Sydney, Australia.
Francesca Anichini, Nevio Dubbini, Nachum Dershowitz, Barak Itkin, and Lior Wolf, September 2019, “The Automatic Recognition of Ceramics Through Only One Photo. The ArchAIDE App.” (Abstract), The European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics (EMAC), Barcelona, Spain.
Francesca Anichini and the ArchAIDE team, July 2019, ArchAIDE app (Desktop, iOS, Android). Best app award, Heritage in Motion, Sept. 2019.
Taivanbat Badamdorj, Adiel Ben-Shalom, and Nachum Dershowitz, February 2019, “Matching and Searching the Dead Sea Scrolls”, Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on the Science of Electrical Engineering in Israel (ICSEE), December 2018, Eilat, Israel.
Orna Almogi, Lena Dankin, Nachum Dershowitz, and Lior Wolf, January 2019, “A Hackathon for Classical Tibetan”, Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities, Special Issue on Computer-Aided Processing of Intertextuality in Ancient Languages, Section: Towards a Digital Ecosystem: NLP; Corpus infrastructure; Methods for Retrieving Texts and Computing Text Similarities, HAL archive ã€ˆhal-01371751ã€‰.
Nachum Dershowitz, Daniel Labenski, Adi Silberpfennig, Lior Wolf, and Yaron Tsur, November 2017, “Relating Articles Textually and Visually”, Proceedings of the 14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), Kyoto, Japan, pp. 275-281.
Lior Uzan, Nachum Dershowitz, and Lior Wolf, November 2017, “Qumran Letter Restoration by Rotation and Reflection Modified PixelCNN”, Proceedings of the 14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), Kyoto, Japan, pp. 23-29.
Francesco Banterle, Barak Itkin, Matteo Dellepiane, Lior Wolf, Marco Callieri, Nachum Dershowitz, and Roberto Scopigno, November 2017, “VASESKETCH: Automatic 3D Representation of Pottery from Paper Catalog Drawings”, Proceedings of the 14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), Kyoto, Japan, pp. 683-690.
Ido Kissos and Nachum Dershowitz, October 2017, “Image and Text Correction Using Language Models”, 1st International Workshop on Arabic Script Analysis and Recognition (ASAR 2017, April 2017), IEEE Xplore, Nancy, France, pp. 158-162.
Matteo Dellepiane, Barak Itkin, Francesco Banterle, Lior Wolf, Marco Callieri, Nachum Dershowitz, and Roberto Scopigno, August 2017, “Extracting Geometric Features and 3D Representations of pottery from paper catalogues drawings” (Abstract), Programme of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Nachum Dershowitz (with Adiel Ben-Shalom, Adi Silberpfennig, Lior Wolf, and Yaacov Choueka), August 2017, “Querying Hebrew Texts via Word Spotting” (Abstract), World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, Israel.
Orna Almogi, Lena Dankin, Nachum Dershowitz, Yair Hoffman, Dorji Wangchuk, and Lior Wolf, 2016, “Stemming and Segmentation for Classical Tibetan”, Proceedings of the Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing), Konya, Turkey
Adiel Ben-Shalom, Yaacov Choueka, Nachum Dershowitz, Adi Silberpfennig, and Lior Wolf, November 2015, “Querying the Cairo Genizah Images with Word-Spotting Algorithm“ (Abstract), The Twelfth Annual Jerusalem Conference on the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage, Jerusalem, Israel
Asaf Gayer, Adi Silberpfenning, Nachum Dershowitz, Daniel Stoekl Ben Ezra, and Jonathan Ben-Dov, September 2015, “A Re-edition of 'Cryptic A Rule of Congregation' (4Qpap cryptA Serekh Ha-Edah) from Qumran: Enhanced Algorithmic Methods to the Aid of Textual Studies” (Poster), Manusciences '15: Franco-German Summer School Manuscripts. From Fragments to Books -- From Identification to Interpretation, Chiemsee, Germany.
Gil Sadeh, Lior Wolf, Tal Hassner, Nachum Dershowitz, and Daniel Stökl Ben-Ezra, August 2015, “Viral Transcription Alignment ”, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2015), Nancy, France, pp. 711-715.
Adi Silberpfennig, Lior Wolf, Nachum Dershowitz, Seraogi Bhagesh, and Chaudhuri Bidyut, August 2015, “Improving OCR for an Under-Resourced Script Using Unsupervised Word-Spotting ”, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2015), Nancy, France, pp. 706-710.
Idan Dershowitz, Moshe Koppel, Navot Akiva, and Nachum Dershowitz, June 2014, “Computerized Source Criticism of Biblical Texts”, Journal of Biblical Literature, vol. 134, no. 2, pp. 253-271.
Kfir Bar, Nachum Dershowitz, Lior Wolf, Yackov Lubarsky, and Yaacov Choueka, 2015, “Processing Judeo-Arabic Texts”, First Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, IEEE.
Nachum Dershowitz, December 2014, “Computational Manuscriptology” (Extended Abstract), Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Digital Archives and Digital Humanities, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 21-28.
Kfir Bar and Nachum Dershowitz, October 2014, “The Tel Aviv University System for the Code-Switching Workshop Shared Task”, Overview for the First Shared Task on Language Identification in Code-Switched Data, Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Code-Switching, Thamar Solorio, Elizabeth Blair, Suraj Maharjan, Steve Bethard, Mona Diab, Mahmoud Gonheim, Abdelati Hawwari, Fahad AlGhamdi, Julia Hirshberg, Alison Chang, and Pascale Fung, eds., Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing, Doha, Qatar.
Lior Wolf, Yair Hanani, Kfir Bar, and Nachum Dershowitz, 2014, “Joint word2vec Networks for Bilingual Semantic Representations”, International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Applications, to appear.
Alon Kovalchuk, Lior Wolf, and Nachum Dershowitz, September 2014, “A Simple and Fast Word Spotting Method”, Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR), Crete, Greece.

Nachum Dershowitz and Ephraim Nissan, editors, September 2014, Language, Culture, Computation: Studies in Honor of Yaacov Choueka, Part I: Computing – Theory and Technology, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8001, Springer-Verlag, Berlin (part of three volume set).

Nachum Dershowitz and Ephraim Nissan, editors, September 2014, Language, Culture, Computation: Studies in Honor of Yaacov Choueka, Part II: Computing of the Humanities, Law, and Narratives, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8002, Springer-Verlag, Berlin (part of three volume set).

Nachum Dershowitz and Ephraim Nissan, editors, September 2014, Language, Culture, Computation: Studies in Honor of Yaacov Choueka, Part III: Computational Linguistics and Linguistics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8003, Springer-Verlag, Berlin (part of three volume set).

Kfir Bar, Yaacov Choueka, and Nachum Dershowitz, 2014, “Matching Phrases for Arabic-to-English Example-Based Translation System”, Language, Culture, Computation: Studies in Honor of Yaacov Choueka, volume II, Nachum Dershowitz and Ephraim Nissan, eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8002, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Nachum Dershowitz and Andrey Rosenberg, 2014, “Arabic Character Recognition”, Language, Culture, Computation: Studies in Honor of Yaacov Choueka, volume I, Nachum Dershowitz and Ephraim Nissan, eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8001, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Nachum Dershowitz and Lior Wolf, “From Caves to Cyberspace: AI Aids in the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls”, Xth Congress of the European Association of Jewish Studies, Paris, July 2014.
Lior Wolf, Yair Hanani, Kfir Bar, and Nachum Dershowitz, April 2014, “Joint word2vec Networks for Bilingual Semantic Representations”, Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (Cicling), Kathmandu, Nepal.
Kfir Bar and Nachum Dershowitz, April 2014, “Inferring Paraphrases for a Highly Inflected Language from a Monolingual Corpus”, Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (Cicling), Kathmandu, Nepal.
Benjamin Klein, Nachum Dershowitz, Lior Wolf, Orna Almogi, and Dorji Wangchuk, “Finding Inexact Quotations Within a Tibetan Buddhist Corpus (Poster)”, Digital Humanities 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Idan Dershowitz, Nachum Dershowitz, Tomer Hasid, and Amnon Ta-Shma, 2013, “Orthography and Biblical Criticism (Poster)”, Digital Humanities 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Adiel Ben-Shalom, Yaacov Choueka, Nachum Dershowitz, Roni Shweka, and Lior Wolf, 2013, “Where is My Other Half?”, Digital Humanities 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Tal Hassner, Lior Wolf, and Nachum Dershowitz, August 2013, “OCR-Free Transcript Alignment”, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2013), Washington DC, USA.
Yoram Zarai, Tamar Lavee, Nachum Dershowitz, and Lior Wolf, August 2013, “Integrating Copies Obtained from Old and New Preservation Efforts”, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2013), Washington DC, USA.
Nachum Dershowitz and Lior Wolf, July 2013, “Automatic Scribal Analysis of Tibetan Writings” (Abstract), Abstracts of the 13th Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Noga Levy, Lior Wolf, and Peter A. Stokes, 2013, “Document Classification based on What is There and What Should be There”, Proceedings of Digital Humanities (DH 2013).
Roni Shweka, Yaacov Choueka, Lior Wolf, and Nachum Dershowitz, Feb. 2013, “Automatic Extraction of Catalog Data from Digital Images of Historical Manuscripts”, Literary and Linguistic Computing, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 315-330.
Tal Hassner, Malte Rehbein, Peter A. Stokes, and Lior Wolf, eds., Feb. 2013, Computation and Palaeography: Potentials and Limits (Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 12382), Dagstuhl Reports, Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, Dagstuhl, Germany.
Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold, 2013, “Jewish Dating Pitfalls and Resources”, Selected Lectures on Genealogy: An Introduction to Scientific Tools, H. Daniel Wagner, ed., ISBN 978-965-281-004-5, printed at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, pp. 21-38.
Kfir Bar and Nachum Dershowitz, Dec. 2012, “Deriving Paraphrases for Highly-Inflected Languages from Comparable Documents”, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Mumbai, India, pp. 185-200.
Edward M. Reingold and Nachum Dershowitz, Oct. 2012, “Calendars”, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 11th ed.
Kfir Bar and Nachum Dershowitz, Sept. 2012, “Semantics for Example-Based Arabic Machine Translation”, Challenges for Arabic Machine Translation, Abdelhadi Soudi, Stephan Vogel, Guenter Neumann, and Ali Farghaly, eds., Natural Language Processing Series, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 49-72.
Noga Levy, Lior Wolf, Nachum Dershowitz, and Peter Stokes, July 2012, “Estimating the Distinctiveness of Graphemes and Allographs in Palaeographic Classification”, Proceedings of Digital Humanities (DH 2012), Hamburg, Germany, Hamburg University Press, pp. 264-267.
Nachum Dershowitz and Alex Zhicharevich, April 2012, “Language Classification and Segmentation of Noisy Documents in Hebrew Scripts”, LaTeCH 2012: EACL 2012 workshop on: Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities, Avignon, France.
Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold, 2011, “Indian Calendrical Calculations”, Ancient Indian Leaps into Mathematics, B. S. Yadav and Man Mohan, eds., Birkhäuser, Boston, pp. 1-32.
Lior Wolf, Nachum Dershowitz, Liza Potikha, Tanya German, Roni Shweka, and Yaacov Choueka, 2011, “Automatic Paleographic Exploration of Genizah Manuscripts”, in Kodikologie und Paläographie im Digitalen Zeitalter 2 - Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age 2, Franz Fischer, Christiane Fritze, and Georg Vogeler, eds., with Bernhard Assmann, Malte Rehbein, and Patrick Sahle, Schriften des Instituts für Dokumentologie und Editorik, vol. 3, Norderstedt: Books on Demand, Germany, pp. 157-179.
Lior Wolf, Lior Litwak, Nachum Dershowitz, Roni Shweka, and Yaacov Choueka, Nov. 2011, “Active Clustering of Document Fragments using Information Derived from Both Images and Catalogs”, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Dimitris N. Metaxas, Long Quan, Alberto Sanfeliu, and Luc J. Van Gool, eds., Barcelona, Spain, pp. 1661-1667.
Lior Wolf, Nachum Dershowitz, Liza Potikha, Roni Shweka, and Yaacov Choueka, Sept. 2011, “Computerized Paleography: Tools for Historical Manuscripts”, Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2011), Benoît Macq and Peter Schelkens, eds., Brussels, Belgium, pp. 3545-3548.
Lior Wolf, Rotem Littman, Naama Mayer, Tanya German, Nachum Dershowitz, Roni Shweka, and Yaacov Choueka, Aug. 2011, “Identifying Join Candidates in the Cairo Genizah”, International Journal of Computer Vision, vol. 94, no. 1, pp. 118-135.
Roni Shweka, Yaacov Choueka, Lior Wolf, Nachum Dershowitz, and Masha Zeldin, June 2011, “Automatic Extraction of Catalog Data from Genizah Fragments’ Images”, Digital Humanities (DH 2011), Palo Alto, CA.
Andrey Stolyarenko and Nachum Dershowitz, June 2011, “OCR for Arabic using SIFT Descriptors With On-Line Failure Prediction”, Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics (ISCOL), Bar-Ilan University.
Moshe Koppel, Navot Akiva, Idan Dershowitz, and Nachum Dershowitz, June 2011, “Unsupervised Decomposition of a Document into Authorial Components”, Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-HLT), Portland, OR, 1356-1364.
Roni Shweka, Yaacov Choueka, Lior Wolf, and Nachum Dershowitz, 2011, “וקרב אותם אחד אל אחד: זיהוי כתב יד וצירוף קטעי הגניזה באמצעות מחשב (Identifying Handwriting and Joining Genizah Fragments by Computer)”, Ginzei Kedem, vol. 7, pp. 171-207. (In Hebrew.)
Kfir Bar and Nachum Dershowitz, Jan. 2011, “Using Verb Paraphrases for Arabic-to-English Example-Based Translation” (Extended Abstract), Workshop on Machine Translation and Morphologically-rich Languages, Haifa, Israel.
Kfir Bar and Nachum Dershowitz, Dec. 2010, “Tel Aviv University’s System Description for IWSLT 2010”, International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2010), Paris, France.
Kfir Bar and Nachum Dershowitz, Oct. 2010, “Using Synonyms for Arabic-to-English Example-Based Translation”, The Ninth Biennial Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Denver, CO.
Lior Wolf, Rotem Littman, Naama Mayer, Nachum Dershowitz, Roni Shweka, and Yaacov Choueka, Oct. 2009, “Automatically Identifying Join Candidates in the Cairo Genizah”, IEEE Workshop on eHeritage and Digital Art Preservation (in conjunction with ICCV 2009), Kyoto, Japan. Best paper award.
Kfir Bar, Nachum Dershowitz, Aug. 2009, “NIST Open Machine Translation 2009 Evaluation: Tel Aviv University’s System Description”, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Open MT Evaluation Workshop, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Kfir Bar, Nachum Dershowitz, and Yaacov Choueka, Apr. 2007, “Example-Based Arabic-to-English Translation”, Proceedings of a Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing, Fez, Morocco, pp. 325/1-4.
Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold, 2008, Calendrical Calculations, third edition, Cambridge University Press (477+xxxi pages). Choice's Outstanding Academic Title Award (2002).
Edward M. Reingold and Nachum Dershowitz, 2002, Calendrical Tabulations, Cambridge University Press (606+xxx pages).