activity
20192026
collaborators

7 papers

cs.CY2026

Ground Truths in Suicide Research: The Current State of AI-Based Suicide Detection in Social Media

Yaakov Ophir, Ofri Hefetz, Refael Tikochinski +6

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and social media data have led to growing optimism about the ability to detect suicide risk at scale. However, the empirical foundat…

cs.CL2025

Building Patient Journeys in Hebrew: A Language Model for Clinical Timeline Extraction

Kai Golan Hashiloni, Brenda Kasabe Nokai, Michal Shevach +7

We present a new Hebrew medical language model designed to extract structured clinical timelines from electronic health records, enabling the construction of patient journeys. Our…

cs.CL2024

Training a Bilingual Language Model by Mapping Tokens onto a Shared Character Space

Aviad Rom, Kfir Bar

We train a bilingual Arabic-Hebrew language model using a transliterated version of Arabic texts in Hebrew, to ensure both languages are represented in the same script. Given the m…

cs.CL2021

Supporting Undotted Arabic with Pre-trained Language Models

Aviad Rom, Kfir Bar

We observe a recent behaviour on social media, in which users intentionally remove consonantal dots from Arabic letters, in order to bypass content-classification algorithms. Conte…

cs.CL2020

Metaphor Interpretation Using Word Embeddings

Kfir Bar, Nachum Dershowitz, Lena Dankin

We suggest a model for metaphor interpretation using word embeddings trained over a relatively large corpus. Our system handles nominal metaphors, like "time is money". It generate…

cs.CL2020

Transliteration of Judeo-Arabic Texts into Arabic Script Using Recurrent Neural Networks

Ori Terner, Kfir Bar, Nachum Dershowitz

We trained a model to automatically transliterate Judeo-Arabic texts into Arabic script, enabling Arabic readers to access those writings. We employ a recurrent neural network (RNN…

cs.CL2019

Semantic Characteristics of Schizophrenic Speech

Kfir Bar, Vered Zilberstein, Ido Ziv +4

Natural language processing tools are used to automatically detect disturbances in transcribed speech of schizophrenia inpatients who speak Hebrew. We measure topic mutation over t…