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Shuly Wintner | |
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שולי וינטנר | |
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| Born | 1963 |
| Alma mater | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Studies in computational linguistics and natural language processing |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | University of Haifa |
| Doctoral advisor | Nissim Francez |
Shuly Wintner (Hebrew: שולי וינטנר) is an Israeli Computer Scientist, a professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa. He has co-authored and co-edited over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and several books[1][2].
His research throughout the years has spaned various areas of computational linguistics and natural language processing, including formal grammars, morphology, syntax, language resources (predominantly for Hebrew), translation, with a current focus on multilingualism (in particular, code-switching). He has served in several editorial positions, including as the Editor-in-chief of Springer's Research on Language and Computation, has been intensively involved in conference reviewing and organization (including as the general chair of EACL-2014), and served in several positions of trust, including as the Chair of the European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2021-2022).
Biography
editWintner received all of his degrees at the Technion. His Masters thesis focuses on "Abstract Machine for Unification Grammars with Applications to an HPSG Grammar for Hebrew". Right after receiving his D.Sc., he held two post-doctoral positions between 1997 and 2000 at Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Tübingen in Germany, and at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania. Afterwards, Wintner joined the University of Haifa[1].
During 1995-1996, as a doctoral student at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Wintner founded and organized the first (and the second) Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics (ISCOL).
Career
editWintner has made significant contributions to computational linguistics. His collaborative work includes advancements in finite-state and unification-based grammars with practical applications in natural language processing. Notable projects involve the development of finite-state registered automata for non-concatenative morphology, where he defined the model, discussed its mathematical properties, and provided examples of its application to complex morphological and phonological phenomena. This includes addressing how root consonants in Semitic languages are interdigitated into patterns to form words, a key aspect of Hebrew morphology[3][4][5].
Wintner's work also extends to the broader field of Semitic languages. He explored the challenges and methodologies for processing these languages, emphasizing the need for specialized tools and resources to handle their rich morphological structures. His theoretical insights provided a formal framework for analyzing Hebrew and Arabic morphology using finite-state methods. This framework was applied to creating a morphological lexicon for Modern Hebrew, developing morphological and syntactic parsers, and conducting a detailed morphological analysis of the Qur'an, enabling practical use cases such as querying the text[6][7].
In addition, Wintner has worked on various aspects of language contact, including the study of translationese, machine translation, cognates, code-switching, and second language acquisition. One study on the properties of translationese showed that characteristics such as simplification and explicitation are predominant in translated texts, allowing them to be easily distinguished by machines[8]. This insight was leveraged to train improved machine translation models by carefully selecting appropriate texts for modeling target language output[9]. Another study demonstrated that the signal of translation is so strong that by analyzing target language texts, one can reconstruct a reliable phylogenetic tree of the translated source languages, showing clear clustering of related languages just by looking at their translation to a shared target language[10].
His current research focuses on multilingualism, with recent contributions in computational exploration of code-switching, particularly around its relation to cognates.
Books
edit- Editors: Orna Grumberg, Michael Kaminski, Shmuel Katz, Shuly Wintner, Languages: From Formal to Natural, Essays Dedicated to Nissim Francez on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, Springer’s Link, 2009[11].
- Nissim Francez, Shuly Wintner, Unification Grammars, Cambridge University Press, 2011 [12][2]
- Shuly Wintner, Introduction to Computer Science: C, Pardes Publishing, 2012[1].
References
edit- ^ a b c "homepage".
- ^ a b Francez, Nissim; Wintner, Shuly (2011). Book: Unification Grammars. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139013574. ISBN 978-1-107-01417-6.
- ^ Wintner, Shuly (2002). "Formal Language Theory for Natural Language Processing". Proceedings of the ACL-02 Workshop on Effective Tools and Methodologies for Teaching: 71–76.
- ^ Cohen-Sygal, Yael; Wintner, Shuly (2005). "Finite-State Registered Automata for Non-Concatenative Morphology". Computational Linguistics.
- ^ בננסון, מריאנה (2014-08-17). "פרויקט שנערך באוניברסיטת חיפה מציע שיטות לשיפור תרגום ממוחשב". פרויקט שנערך באוניברסיטת חיפה מציע שיטות לשיפור תרגום ממוחשב (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2024-08-15.
- ^ Wintner, Shuly (2008). "Language Resources for Hebrew". Language Resources and Evaluation. 42 (1): 75–98. doi:10.1007/s10579-007-9050-8.
- ^ Yona, Shuly; Wintner, Shuly (2008). "A Finite-State Morphological Grammar of Hebrew". Natural Language Engineering. 14 (2): 173–190. doi:10.1017/S1351324906004384.
- ^ Volansky, V.; Ordan, N.; Wintner, S. (2015). "On the Features of Translationese". Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. 30 (1): 98–118. doi:10.1093/llc/fqt031.
- ^ Lembersky, G.; Ordan, N.; Wintner, S. (2012). "Language Models for Machine Translation: Original vs. Translated Texts". Computational Linguistics. 38 (4): 799–825. doi:10.1162/COLI_a_00111.
- ^ Rabinovich, E.; Ordan, N.; Wintner, S. (2017). "Found in Translation: Reconstructing Phylogenetic Language Trees from Translations". Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: 152–163. arXiv:1704.07146.
- ^ Languages: from Formal to Natural. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 5533. 2009. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-01748-3. ISBN 978-3-642-01747-6.
- ^ Francez, Nissim; Wintner, Shuly (2011-09-30). Unification Grammars. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-01417-6.