--- title: "Kfir Bar — papers and cards" description: "Kfir Bar: 5 paper cards in the Research library (2020–2025), with what each paper is about, the ideas Mova took from it, and the co-authors." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kfir-bar/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kfir-bar/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kfir Bar # Kfir Bar 5 paper cards in the Research library · 2020–2025 Kfir Bar wrote 5 of the papers Mova reads, in 2020–2025; often with [Nachum Dershowitz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nachum-dershowitz/), Anna Bergrin, Brenda Kasabe Nokai. [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5069195550) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1354-2955) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5069195550) · [354 citations](https://openalex.org/authors/A5069195550) · [76 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5069195550) — openalex-snapshot, 2026-10-14 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=Kfir+Bar) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kfir+Bar) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kfir+Bar) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kfir+Bar) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/orcid-search/search?searchQuery=Kfir+Bar) ## Papers 1. **[Building Patient Journeys in Hebrew: A Language Model for Clinical Timeline Extraction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/langstream-2025-hashiloni-building-patient-journeys-hebrew-language/)** *(2025)* The authors continue the pre-training of DictaBERT 2.0 on about 5 million de-identified Hebrew hospital records (about 0.55 billion words). 2. **[Code-Switching and Back-Transliteration Using a Bilingual Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aclbulk-2024-mitelman-code-switching-back-transliteration-bilingual/)** *(2024)* The paper handles Judeo-Arabic, Arabic written in Hebrew letters with Hebrew and Aramaic borrowings, in two steps. 3. **[Temporal Relation Classification in Hebrew](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/narr-2023-yanko-temporal-relation-classification-hebrew/)** *(2023)* The paper asks, for two event mentions in a Hebrew news text, which happened first: temporal relation classification (TRC). 4. **[How Much Does Lookahead Matter for Disambiguation? Partial Arabic Diacritization Case Study](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cl-2022-esmail-how-much-does-lookahead-matter/)** *(2022)* The authors ask which short vowels a reader of unpointed Arabic really needs, and they print only those. Two neural diacritizers are trained on the Tashkeela corpus: a unidirectional LSTM that sees only the words already read, and a transformer that sees the whole sentence. Where the two disagree, the whole-sentence… 5. **[Transliteration of Judeo-Arabic Texts into Arabic Script Using Recurrent Neural Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aclbulk-2020-terner-transliteration-judeo-arabic-texts-into/)** *(2020)* Judeo-Arabic texts are written in Hebrew letters, and converting them to Arabic script is mostly letter-for-letter, but the letter mapping is ambiguous (alef, yod, hamza, alif maqsura, missing shadda and tanwin). ## Co-authors (14) - [Nachum Dershowitz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nachum-dershowitz/) ×4 - Anna Bergrin - Brenda Kasabe Nokai - Daniel Weisberg Mitelman - Esthy Shemesh - Guy Yanko - Kai Golan Hashiloni - Liat Nadai Arad - Liran Harel - Michal Shevach - Ori Terner - Ronit Bartin - Saeed Esmail - Shahaf Pariente ## More papers in the library (2) Pages of the Research library: our summary, the ideas, references and who cites each. - [ID10M-JAM: Stress-Testing Idiom Identification Under Challenging Context](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hashiloni-2026-id10m-jam-stress-testing-idiom/) — Kai Golan Hashiloni, Lior Livyatan, Ofri Hefetz, et al. · 2026 - [The IDC System for Sentiment Classification and Sarcasm Detection in Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/israeli-2021-idc-system-sentiment-classification-sarcasm/) — Abraham Israeli, Yotam Nahum, Shai Fine, et al. · 2021