Kfir Bar

5 paper cards in Mova's library · 2020–2025

Kfir Bar wrote 5 of the papers Mova reads, in 2020–2025; often with Nachum Dershowitz, Anna Bergrin, Brenda Kasabe Nokai.

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Papers

Building Patient Journeys in Hebrew: A Language Model for Clinical Timeline Extraction (2025)
The authors continue the pre-training of DictaBERT 2.0 on about 5 million de-identified Hebrew hospital records (about 0.55 billion words).
Code-Switching and Back-Transliteration Using a Bilingual Model (2024)
The paper handles Judeo-Arabic, Arabic written in Hebrew letters with Hebrew and Aramaic borrowings, in two steps.
Temporal Relation Classification in Hebrew (2023)
The paper asks, for two event mentions in a Hebrew news text, which happened first: temporal relation classification (TRC).
How Much Does Lookahead Matter for Disambiguation? Partial Arabic Diacritization Case Study (2022)
The authors ask which short vowels a reader of unpointed Arabic really needs, and they print only those. Two neural diacritizers are trained on the Tashkeela corpus: a unidirectional LSTM that sees only the words already read, and a transformer that sees the whole sentence. Where the two disagree, the whole-sentence…
Transliteration of Judeo-Arabic Texts into Arabic Script Using Recurrent Neural Networks (2020)
Judeo-Arabic texts are written in Hebrew letters, and converting them to Arabic script is mostly letter-for-letter, but the letter mapping is ambiguous (alef, yod, hamza, alif maqsura, missing shadda and tanwin).