--- title: "Dafna Shahaf — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Dafna Shahaf, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2026), h-index 21 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dafna-shahaf/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dafna-shahaf/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Dafna Shahaf # Dafna Shahaf Dafna Shahaf has 3 papers in our library, in 2020–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Hebrew & Aramaic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Chen Shani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-shani/), [Moran Mizrahi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/moran-mizrahi/), [Dan Jurafsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-jurafsky/). 3 papers in our library · 2020–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5009660759) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3261-0818) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138578599) · [**h-index 21**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5009660759) · [110 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5009660759) · [1,880 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5009660759&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dafna-shahaf/#papers) · 🔗 Cited 10 times in our library · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10350](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/104/#star-10350) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Dafna+Shahaf) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Dafna+Shahaf) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Dafna+Shahaf) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Dafna+Shahaf) ## Affiliations [🎓**Hebrew University of Jerusalem** Jerusalem · Israel 2016–2026 · 62 papersEmployment since 2018 · The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Engineering and Computer Science*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hebrew-university-of-jerusalem/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2009–2026 · 10 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2013–2022 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2006–2007 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🔬**Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence** Seattle · United States 2020–2022 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/allen-institute-for-artificial-intelligence/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 6 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Psychology · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Social Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/social-psychology/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Hebrew & Aramaic · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/) · [Modern Hebrew · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/modern-hebrew/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dafna-shahaf/year/2026/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dafna-shahaf/year/2020/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Coming to Terms: Automatic Formation of Neologisms in Hebrew](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mizrahi-2020-coming-terms-automatic-formation-neologisms/)** *(2020 · 6 citations)* The system EBY proposes new Hebrew nouns for an English source word, following the Hebrew Academy's three methods: root-and-pattern, compounds and portmanteaus. 2. **[One Joke to Rule them All? On the (Im)possibility of Generalizing Humor Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/turgeman-2026-one-joke-rule-them-all/)** *(2026)* Computational humor research usually builds a separate model for each narrow genre, such as puns, memes or sarcasm. 3. **[🧑‍🍳 Cooking Up Creativity: Enhancing LLM Creativity through Structured Recombination](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mizrahi-2026-cooking-up-creativity-enhancing-llm/)** *(2026)* LLMs write fluent text but tend to repeat familiar patterns when asked for original ideas. Raising temperature only adds token-level randomness and does not produce new concepts. The authors move the creative step outside the model. An LLM turns textual ideas into structured representations, an algorithm recombines… ## All works 6 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Information cartography ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2487575.2487690) ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) · no summary yet**Dafna Shahaf et al.*2013 · 89 citations* 2. **[Information cartography ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2735624) Communications of the ACM · no summary yet**Dafna Shahaf et al.*2015 · 30 citations* 3. [**Coming to Terms: Automatic Formation of Neologisms in Hebrew**Moran Mizrahi, Stav Yardeni Seelig, Dafna Shahaf*Modern Hebrew · 6 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mizrahi-2020-coming-terms-automatic-formation-neologisms/) 4. **[Information cartography: Creating zoomable, large-scale maps of information ↗](https://openalex.org/W7099012826) no summary yet**Dafna Shahaf et al.*2013 · 6 citations* 5. **[One Joke to Rule them All? On the (Im)possibility of Generalizing Humor Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/turgeman-2026-one-joke-rule-them-all/) [Workshop on Computational Humor](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/chum/)**Mor Turgeman, Chen Shani, Dafna Shahaf*2026* 6. **[🧑‍🍳 Cooking Up Creativity: Enhancing LLM Creativity through Structured Recombination](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mizrahi-2026-cooking-up-creativity-enhancing-llm/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Moran Mizrahi, Chen Shani, Gabriel Stanovsky, et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chen Shani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-shani/) ×2 - [Moran Mizrahi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/moran-mizrahi/) ×2 - [Dan Jurafsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-jurafsky/) - [Gabriel Stanovsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gabriel-stanovsky/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Workshop on Computational Humor](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/chum/): [Workshop on Computational Humor 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/chum/2026/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2020/) - [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2026/) - ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) - Communications of the ACM ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 10 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read). 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