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Forthcoming

• Bracha Nir, Brian MacWhinney and Shuly Wintner. A Morphologically-Analyzed CHILDES Corpus of Hebrew. Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2010), Malta, April 2010.
• Yulia Tsvetkov and Shuly Wintner. Automatic Acquisition of Parallel Corpora from Websites with Dynamic Content. Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2010), Malta, April 2010.
• Amit Kirschenbaum and Shuly Wintner. A General Method for Creating a Bilingual Transliteration Dictionary. Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2010), Malta, April 2010.
• Shuly Wintner. Computational Models of Language Acquisition. In alexander Gelbukh, editor, Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. Volume 6008 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 86-99, Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer. 2010.
  PDF (The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.)
• Kenji Sagae, Eric Davis, Alon Lavie, Brian MacWhinney and Shuly Wintner. GRASP: Morphosyntactic Annotation of CHILDES Transcripts. Journal of Child Language, forthcoming.
• Anat Prior, Shuly Wintner, Alon Lavie and Brian MacWhinney. Translation ambiguities in and out of context. Applied Psycholinguistics, forthcoming.

2009

• Shuly Wintner. Last Words: What Science Underlies Natural Language Engineering? Computational Linguistics 35(4):641-644, December 2009. PDF.
• Yael Sygal and Shuly Wintner. Associative Grammar Combination Operators for Tree-Based Grammars. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 18(3):293-316, July 2009. PDF (The original publication is available from Springer)
• Amit Kirschenbaum and Shuly Wintner. Lightly Supervised Transliteration for Machine Translation. Proceedings of The 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-09), pages 433--441, Athens, Greece, April 2009. PDF.
• Shuly Wintner, Alon Lavie, and Brian MacWhinney. Formal Grammars of Early Language. In Orna Grumberg, Michael Kaminski, Shmuel Katz and Shuly Wintner, editors, Languages: from Formal to Natural. Volume 5533 of Lexture Notes in Computer Science, pages 204-227, Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer. 2009. PDF (The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.)
• Orna Grumberg, Michael Kaminski, Shmuel Katz and Shuly Wintner, editors. Languages: from Formal to Natural. Volume 5533 of Lexture Notes in Computer Science, Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer. 2009. 245 pages.
• Shuly Wintner. Language Resources for Semitic Languages -- Challenges and Solutions. In Sergei Nirenburg (ed.) Language Engineering for Lesser-Studied Languages, pages 277-290. Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2009.

2008

• Shuly Wintner. Strengths and weaknesses of finite-state technology: a case study in morphological grammar development. Natural Language Engineering 14(4):457-469, October 2008. PDF (Copyright Cambridge University Press)
• Ezra Daya, Dan Roth, and Shuly Wintner. Identifying Semitic Roots: Machine Learning with Linguistic Constraints. Computational Linguistics 34(3):429-448, September 2008. PDF
• Yael Sygal and Shuly Wintner. Type Signature Modules. In Philippe de Groote (Ed.) Proceedings of FG 2008: The 13th conference on Formal Grammar, pages 113-128, Hamburg, Germany, August 2008. PDF.
• Daniel Feinstein and Shuly Wintner. Highly Constrained Unification Grammars. Journal of Logic, Language and Information 17(3):345-381, July 2008. PDF (The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.)
• Shlomo Yona and Shuly Wintner. A finite-state morphological grammar of Hebrew. Natural Language Engineering 14(2):173-190, April 2008. PDF (copyright Cambridge University Press).
• Alon Itai and Shuly Wintner. Language resources for Hebrew. Language Resources and Evaluation 42(1):75-98, March 2008. PDF (The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.)

2007

• Nurit Melnik. Extending partial pro-drop in Modern Hebrew: A comprehensive analysis. In Stephan Müller, ed., Proceedings of the HPSG07 Conference, pages 173-193. Stanford, CA, July 2007. PDF.
• Ezra Daya, Dan Roth, and Shuly Wintner. Learning to Identify Semitic Roots. In Antal van den Bosch, Guenter Neumann, and Soudi Abdelhadi, editors, Arabic Computational Morphology: Knowledge-based and Empirical Methods, Text, Speech, and Language Technology. Springer, 2007.
• Nurit Melnik. From 'hand-written' to computationally implemented HPSG theories, Research on Language and Computation 5(2):199-236, June 2007.
• Danny Shacham and Shuly Wintner. Morphological Disambiguation of Hebrew: A Case Study in Classifier Combination. In Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL), pages 439-447, Prague, June 2007. PDF.
• Kenji Sagae, Eric Davis, Alon Lavie, Brian MacWhinney and Shuly Wintner. High-accuracy Annotation and Parsing of CHILDES Transcripts. In Proceedings of the ACL-2007 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition, pages 25-32, Prague, June 2007. PDF.
• Idan Szpektor, Ido Dagan, Alon Lavie, Danny Shacham and Shuly Wintner. Cross Lingual and Semantic Retrieval for Cultural Heritage Appreciation. In Proceedings of the ACL-2007 Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage Data (LaTeCH 2007), pages 65-72, Prague, June 2007. PDF.
• Noam Ordan and Shuly Wintner. Hebrew WordNet: a test case of aligning lexical databases across languages. International Journal of Translation, special issue on Lexical Resources for Machine Translation 19(1):39-58, 2007. PDF
• Danny Shacham. Morphological Disambiguation of Hebrew. University of Haifa MSc. Thesis, 2007. PDF
• Shuly Wintner, ed. Proceedings of FG 2006: The 11th conference on Formal Grammar. Stanford: CSLI Publications. 2007. 202 pages. More details.
• Shuly Wintner. Finite-state technology as a programming environment. In Gelbukh, A., editor, Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing-2007), volume 4394 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 97-106, Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer, February 2007. PDF, copyright Springer Verlag.
• Yael Cohen-Sygal and Shuly Wintner. The Non-Associativity of Polarized Tree-Based Grammars. In Gelbukh, A., editor, Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing-2007), volume 4394 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 208-217, Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer, February 2007. PDF, copyright Springer Verlag.

2006

• Nurit Melnik. Hybrid Agreement as a Conflict Resolution Strategy. In Stephan Müller, ed., Proceedings of the HPSG06 Conference, pages 228-246, Varna, Bulgaria, July 2006. PDF.
• Yael Cohen-Sygal and Shuly Wintner. Partially Specified Signatures: A Vehicle for Grammar Modularity. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 145-152, Sydney, Australia, July 2006. PDF.
• Daniel Feinstein and Shuly Wintner. Highly Constrained Unification Grammars. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 1089-1096, Sydney, Australia, July 2006. PDF.
• Shuly Wintner. Introduction to Unification Grammars. In Zoltan Esik, Carlos Martin-Vide and Victor Mitrana, eds., Recent Advances in Formal Languages and Applications, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Volume 25, Springer, 2006.
• Alon Itai, Shuly Wintner and Shlomo Yona. A Computational Lexicon of Contemporary Hebrew. In Proceedings of LREC-2006, Genoa, Italy, May 2006. PDF.
• Shuly Wintner. Unification: Computational issues. In Keith Brown, ed., Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition, Volume 13, pages 238-250. Elsevier, 2006.
• Nurit Melnik. A Constructional Approach to Verb-Initial Constructions In Modern Hebrew, Cognitive Linguistics 17(2):153-198, 2006.
• Yael Cohen-Sygal and Shuly Wintner. Finite-State Registered Automata for Non-Concatenative Morphology. Computational Linguistics 32(1):49-82, March 2006. PDF.

2005

• Ezra Daya. Learning to Identify Semitic Roots. November 2005. University of Haifa M.Sc. Thesis. pdf
• Noam Ordan and Shuly Wintner. Representing natural gender in multilingual lexical databases. International Journal of Lexicography 18(3)357-370, September 2005. PDF.
• Yael Cohen-Sygal and Shuly Wintner. Finite State Registered Automata and their uses in Natural languages. In Proceedings of FSMNLP 2005, Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing. Helsinki, Finland, September 2005. PDF.
• Nurit Melnik. From "hand-written" to implemented HPSG theories. In Proceedings of HPSG-2005, Lisbon, Portugal, August 2005. [pdf]
• Yael Cohen-Sygal and Shuly Wintner. XFST2FSA: Comparing Two Finite-State Toolboxes. In Proceedings of the ACL-2005 Workshop on Software, Ann Arbor, MI, June 2005. [pdf]
• Shlomo Yona and Shuly Wintner. A finite-state morphological grammar of Hebrew. In Proceedings of the ACL-2005 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages, Ann Arbor, MI, June 2005. [pdf]
• Efrat Jaeger, Nissim Francez and Shuly Wintner. Unification Grammars and Off-Line Parsability. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 14:199-234, 2005. PDF.

2004

• Shlomo Yona. A finite-state based morphological analyzer for Hebrew. November 2004. University of Haifa M.Sc. Thesis. [pdf]
• Daniel Feinstein. Computational properties of Unification Grammars. October 2004. University of Haifa M.Sc. Thesis. [pdf]
• Alon Lavie, Erik Peterson, Katharina Probst, Shuly Wintner and Yaniv Eytani. Rapid Prototyping of a Transfer-based Hebrew-to-English Machine Translation System. Proceedings of The 10th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, pages 1-10, Baltimore, MD, October 2004. PDF.
• Judith Dror, Dudu Shaharabani, Rafi Talmon and Shuly Wintner. Morphological Analysis of the Qur'an. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 19(4):431-452, 2004. PDF.
• Ezra Daya, Dan Roth and Shuly Wintner. Learning Hebrew Roots: Machine Learning with Linguistic Constraints. Proceedings of EMNLP'04, Barcelona, July 2004. PDF.
• Yael Cohen-Sygal. Computational Implementation of Non-Concatenative Morphology. MSc. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa. June 2004. PDF.
• Erhard W. Hinrichs, W. Detmar Meurers and Shuly Wintner. Linguistic theory and grammar implementation. Research on Language and Computation 2:155-163, 2004.
• Shuly Wintner. Hebrew computational linguistics: Past and future. Artificial Intelligence Review, 21(2):113-138, 2004. PDF.

2003

• Shuly Wintner and Shlomo Yona, Resources for Processing Hebrew, in Proceedings of the MT Summit IX Workshop on Machine Translation for Semitic Languages, New Orleans, September 2003.
• Shuly Wintner. On the semantics of unification grammars. Grammars 6(3):145-153, 2003. PDF.
• Rafi Talmon and Shuly Wintner, Morphological Tagging of the Qur'an. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Finite-State Methods in Natural Language Processing, an EACL'03 Workshop, Budapest, Hungary, April 2003. PDF.
• Yael Cohen-Sygal, Dale Gerdemann and Shuly Wintner. Computational Implementation of Non-Concatenative Morphology. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Finite-State Methods in Natural Language Processing, an EACL'03 Workshop, Budapest, Hungary, April 2003. PDF.

2002

• Efrat Jaeger. Unification Grammars and Off-line Parsability. MSc. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, The Technion. December 2002. PDF.
• Efrat Jaeger, Nissim Francez and Shuly Wintner. Guaranteeing parsing termination of unification grammars. In Proceedings of COLING-2002, Taipei, Taiwan, August 2002. PDF.
• Shuly Wintner. Modular Context-Free Grammars. Grammars, 5(1):41-63, 2002.
• Shuly Wintner and Anoop Sarkar. A note on typing feature structures. Computational Linguistics, 28(3):389-397, 2002. PDF.
• Shuly Wintner. Hebrew computational linguistics: Past and future. In Shlomo Izre'el, editor, Speaking Hebrew: Studies in Spoken Language and in Linguistic Variation in Israel, volume XVIII of Te'uda, the Yearbook of the Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies at Tel-Aviv University, 2002. In Hebrew. PDF.
• Shuly Wintner. Formal language theory for natural language processing. In Effective tools and methodologies for teaching natural language processing and computational linguistics, an ACL'02 Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, July 2002.

2001

• Rafi Talmon and Shuly Wintner. Computational processing of spoken North Israeli Arabic. In ARABIC Language Processing: Status and Prospects, ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop, Toulouse, France, July 2001. PDF
• Shuly Wintner. Formal Language Theory for Natural Language Processing. Technical report, Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa, October 2001. PDF