Research

• I work on the further development of the FUF and SURGE text generation packages. These papers discuss selected topics related to this: Surge 98, MT 96, Surge overview 96, CL 97, Trento 92, ACL 90. CFUF is a fast C++ implementation of FUF embedded in a Scheme interpreter.

• Development of infrastructure tools for Hebrew computational linguistics within the Knowledge Center for Hebrew Processing. We are working on the design of a linguistically motivated tagset for Hebrew morphology ACL'07 Workshop on Semitic Languages paper, LREC'08 paper, morphological disambiguation (with Meni Adler, ACL'06 paper, ACL'08a paper, ACL'08b paper, Meni Adler's PhD thesis), named entity recognition (Genadi Lemberski's MSc thesis in Hebrew and Naama Ben-Mordecai MSc thesis), Hebrew Named Entity Recognition System online, noun-phrase chunking with Yoav Goldberg, (ACL'06 paper, ACL'07 paper), detection of foreign words in Hebrew CICLING'08 paper

• HUGG: A generation grammar for Hebrew (with Yael Netzer). These papers discuss selected topics related to this: ACL 99, INLG 98, ACL 98.

• Usage of NLP in assistive technologies (with Yael Netzer). These papers discuss this topic: ISAAC'08 paper, ISAAC'06, Yael Netzer's PhD Thesis
• Work in automatic summarization (with Regina Barzilay).
  The following papers are related to this: Bisfai 01, ACL 99, AAAI 98, ISTS 97.
  I advised Regina Barzilay's MSc (86 pages, pdf 810K, gzipped ps 165K)

• Argumentation in text generation. The following papers are related to this topic: Pragmatics 95, AAAI 93, COLING 92, AAAI 91, COLING 90.

• Semantic authoring for multi-lingual text generation. See ENLG 05.
  I advised Ofer Biller's MSc thesis (pdf).

• CLINT: An automatic business letter generator using smart templates and word based noun-phrase generation (with Rinat Gedalia).

• A system for algorithm visualization using natural language generation techniques (with Marina Markus). This also provides a nice visual debugging environment for FUF.

• CFUF: A graph-based implementation of the FUF language implemented in C and embedded within a Scheme interpreter with Windows executables included and compilation ready for Linux (with Mark Kharitonov).
  Mark's thesis is available: CFUF: A Fast Interpreter for the Functional Unification Formalism, April 1999 (116 pages, pdf)
  The source code of CFUF is available under the GPL license: cfuf
  It includes C++ sources of CFUF tested under Linux and Windows. CFUF is packaged inside a Scheme interpreter -- all FUF primitives are implemented in C++ and can be invoked in Scheme. (The Scheme interpreter is based on SCM.) See also the development home page of CFUF