Shuly Wintner
שולי וינטנר
Born1963
Alma materTechnion - Israel Institute of Technology
Known forStudies in computational linguistics and natural language processing
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUniversity of Haifa
Doctoral advisorNissim Francez

Shuly Wintner (Hebrew: שולי וינטנר) is an Israeli Computer Scientist and a professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Haifa. He has co-authored and co-edited over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and several books.[1][2]. Wintner's research covers various areas of computational linguistics and natural language processing, including formal grammars, morphology, syntax, language resources (with a focus on Hebrew), and machine translation. His recent research has focused on multilingualism and code-switching.

Wintner has held several editorial roles, including serving as the Editor-in-chief of Springer's *Research on Language and Computation*. He has been involved in organizing academic conferences, notably as the general chair of EACL-2014. He also chaired the European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) during 2021-2022.[3][4] Additionally, he was a founding member and twice chaired the ACL Special Interest Group on Semitic Languages (SIG Semitic), indicating his focus on this area.[5]

Biography

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Wintner received his B.A (1986-1988), M.Sc.(1988-1991), and D.Sc.(1993-1997) degrees in computer science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. His master's thesis, supervised by Prof. Uzzi Ornan, focused on "Syntactic Analysis of Hebrew Sentences," and his doctoral thesis, supervised by Prof. Nissim Francez, focused on "Abstract Machine for Unification Grammars with Applications to an HPSG Grammar for Hebrew".[6] Following his doctoral studies, Wintner held post-doctoral positions at the Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Tübingen, and the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania, before joining the University of Haifa faculty.[1]

Career

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Wintner's work in computational linguistics includes contributions to finite-state and unification-based grammars, with applications in natural language processing. He has been involved in developing finite-state registered automata for non-concatenative morphology, which are used to analyze complex morphological and phonological phenomena in Semitic languages.[7][8]

His research also addresses the processing of Semitic languages, focusing on creating tools tailored to their rich morphological structures. He contributed to the development of a morphological lexicon for Modern Hebrew and performed detailed morphological analyses of the Qur'an, which have applications in text querying.[9][10]

Wintner has also researched topics such as translationese, machine translation, and code-switching. His study on translationese identified features like simplification and explicitation in translated texts, which has informed the development of machine translation models.[11][12]

Books

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  • 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[13]
  1. ^ a b c "Shuly Wintner's homepage".
  2. ^ a b Francez, Nissim; Wintner, Shuly (2011). Book: Unification Grammars. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139013574. ISBN 978-1-107-01417-6.
  3. ^ "Prof. Shuly Wintner's Bio at CLIB 2024".
  4. ^ "Shuly Wintner's faculty page at the University of Haifa".
  5. ^ "EACL Archives".
  6. ^ "Shuly Wintner's CV" (PDF).
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Cohen-Sygal, Yael; Wintner, Shuly (2005). "Finite-State Registered Automata for Non-Concatenative Morphology". Computational Linguistics.
  9. ^ Wintner, Shuly (2008). "Language Resources for Hebrew". Language Resources and Evaluation. 42 (1): 75–98. doi:10.1007/s10579-007-9050-8.
  10. ^ Yona, Shuly; Wintner, Shuly (2008). "A Finite-State Morphological Grammar of Hebrew". Natural Language Engineering. 14 (2): 173–190. doi:10.1017/S1351324906004384.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ Francez, Nissim; Wintner, Shuly (2011-09-30). Unification Grammars. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-01417-6.