Metaphor Interpretation Using Word Embeddings
CICLING, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2018
Kfir Bar, Nachume Dershowitz, Lena Dankin
I am the Chief Scientist at Basis Technology. I have spent many years working in a wide range of natural language processing (NLP) disciplines, including statistical machine translation, named entity recognition, and digital-humanity applications. I am a big fan of combining linguistic knowledge with sophisticated AI algorithms, for extracting the most important information from a piece of text. Before Basis, I worked for Intuview as CTO, supporting national security and counter-terrorism missions by deducing authorship, sentiment, intent, and other contextual information. In 2013, I co-founded Comprendi, which transforms big data into actionable marketing insights. We served some large scale advertisers in different verticals, with great success. At 2016 our team won the 2016 Twitter #Promote challenge, for a $250K prize in cash. I am a lecturer at Tel Aviv University, COMAS and IDC, where I teach courses in computer science, digital humanities, machine learning and natural language processing. I hold a PhD in computer science from Tel Aviv University for a thesis on Semantics and Machine Translation, titled "Deriving Paraphrases for Highly Inflected Languages, with a Focus on Machine Translation .
My talk at HLTCon, Washington DC, Nov 29, 2018.
My talk at #ODSC Europe, London, Sep 22, 2018.
My talk at Money20/20 Asia, Singapore, March 19, 2019.
Speaking at Suits and Spooks, Washington DC, Jan 25, 2019.
I spoke at #ODSC Europe, London, Sep 22, 2018.
Speaking at the Diffeo Analytical Tradecraft and Technology Conference, Washington DC, June 6, 2018.
Paper accepted (CLPsych @NAACL 2019): Semantic Characteristics of Schizophrenic Speech
, Kfir Bar, Vered Zilberstein, Ido Ziv, Heli Baram, Nachum Dershowitz, Samuel Itzikowitz, Eiran Vadim Harel, June, 2019
Deriving Paraphrases for Highly Inflected Languages, with a Focus on Machine Translation
Supervisor: Nachum Dershowitz
Example-based Arabic to English Machine Translation
Supervisor: Nachum Dershowitz
June, 2018
My talk about connecting names with deep learning, at the Diffeo Analytical Tradecraft and Technology Forum
Relevant links:
Diffeo Analytical Tradecraft and Technology ForumApril, 2018
My talk about Deep Learning for Named Entity Recognition at the Tokyo Artificial Intelligence and NLP Society
Relevant links:
AI and NLP: Data Talks Tokyo Artificial Intelligence and NLP SocietyApril, 2016
Comprendi Wins $250,000 Grand Prize in Twitter Innovation Competition
Relevant links:
#Promote Ads API Challenge 2016: Announcing the Regional Finalists and Grand Prize WinnerJune, 2015
My talk about Active Learning for NLP at The Israeli Natural Language Processing Meetup
As a co-founder and CTO at Comprendi, I gave a talk about our experience with the subject of Active Learning for NLP
Relevant links:
Active Learning for NLP The Israeli Natural Language Processing MeetupComprendi
I am interested in Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Digital Humanitieis, and Computational Creativity.
CICLING, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2018
Kfir Bar, Nachume Dershowitz, Lena Dankin
In Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2016), San Diego, 2016
Mitra Mohtarami, Yonatan Belinkov, Wei-Ning Hsu, Yu Zhang Tao Lei, Kfir Bar, Scott Cyphers, James Glass
In Proceedings of the First Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, IEEE, Cairo, 2015
Kfir Bar, Nachum Dershowitz, Lior Wolf, Yackov Lubarsky, and Yaacov Choueka
In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Code-Switching, Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Doha, Qatar, 2014
Kfir Bar and Nachum Dershowitz
In Proceedings of the Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing), Part 2, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8404, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 254-270, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2014
Kfir Bar and Nachum Dershowitz
In Proceedings of the Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing), Kathmandu, Nepal, 2014
Lior Wolf, Yair Hanani, Kfir Bar, and Nachum Dershowitz
In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Mumbai, India, 2012
Kfir Bar and Nachum Dershowitz
In Proceedings of the ACL 2012 Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing and Semantic Processing of Morphologically Rich Languages, Jeju, Korea, 2012
Abdelati Hawwari, Kfir Bar and Mona Diab
In Proceedings of The Ninth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA-9), Denver, CO, USA, 2010
Kfir Bar and Nachum Dershowitz
In Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Intelligence and security informatics (ISI'09), Arizona, USA, 2009
Moshe Koppel, Navot Akiva, Eli Alshech and Kfir Bar
In Proceedings of a Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing, pp. 325/1-4, Fez, Morocco, 2007
Kfir Bar, Nachum Dershowitz, and Yaacov Choueka
Kfir Bar. Copyright 2018.