--- title: "Ira Leviant — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Ira Leviant, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2017–2020), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ira-leviant/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ira-leviant/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ira Leviant # Ira Leviant Ira Leviant has 2 papers in our library, in 2017–2020, most of them on [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Lexical semantics & word embeddings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/lexical-semantics/); often with [Anna Korhonen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anna-korhonen/), [Ivan Vulić](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ivan-vulic/), [Roi Reichart](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/roi-reichart/). 2 papers in our library · 2017–2020 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5082658100) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5082658100) · [8 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5082658100) · [370 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5082658100&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ira-leviant/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 109 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ira-leviant/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4691](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/47/#star-4691) 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=Ira+Leviant) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ira+Leviant) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ira+Leviant) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ira+Leviant) ## Affiliations [🎓**Technion – Israel Institute of Technology** Haifa · Israel 2017–2020 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/technion-israel-institute-of-technology/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Lexical semantics & word embeddings · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/lexical-semantics/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ira-leviant/year/2020/) ### 2010s [**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ira-leviant/year/2017/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Semantic Specialization of Distributional Word Vector Spaces using Monolingual and Cross-Lingual Constraints](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mrksic-2017-semantic-specialization-distributional-word-vector/)** *(2017 · 236 citations)* Word embeddings trained only on co-occurrence statistics tend to mix true similarity with mere relatedness. 2. **[Multi-SimLex: A Large-Scale Evaluation of Multilingual and Crosslingual Lexical Semantic Similarity](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vulic-2020-multi-simlex-large-scale-evaluation/)** *(2020 · 106 citations)* Datasets that score how alike two words are in meaning exist for only a handful of mostly well-resourced languages. ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Anna Korhonen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anna-korhonen/) ×2 - [Ivan Vulić](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ivan-vulic/) ×2 - [Roi Reichart](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/roi-reichart/) ×2 - [Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diarmuid-o-seaghdha/) - [Edoardo Maria Ponti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/edoardo-maria-ponti/) - [Milica Gašić](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/milica-gasic/) - [Nikola Mrkšić](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikola-mrksic/) - [Olga Majewska](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/olga-majewska/) - [Steve Young](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steve-young/) - [Thierry Poibeau](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thierry-poibeau/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/): [Computational Linguistics 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/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) 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2017/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 109 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [12 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ira-leviant/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026