--- title: "Shai Gordin — author profile and papers" description: "Shai Gordin, Ariel University: 5 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2026), h-index 8 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shai-gordin/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shai-gordin/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Shai Gordin # Shai Gordin Shai Gordin has 5 papers in our library, in 2020–2026, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Akkadian and cuneiform NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/akkadian-cuneiform-nlp/), [Word sense disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/); often with [Aleksi Sahala](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aleksi-sahala/), [Amos Azaria](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amos-azaria/), [Stav Klein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stav-klein/). 4 of them are among the papers [Mova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/projects/mova/) reads. 5 papers in our library · 2020–2026 current affiliation [Ariel University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ariel-university/), Ariel, Israel [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5068149720) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8359-382X) · [**h-index 8**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5068149720) · [60 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5068149720) · [257 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5068149720&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [5 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shai-gordin/#papers) · [17 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shai-gordin/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4257](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/43/#star-4257) 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=Shai+Gordin) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Shai+Gordin) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Shai+Gordin) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Shai+Gordin) ## Affiliations - [Ariel University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ariel-university/) · Ariel, Israel —current · 2015–2026 on 35 papers · employment from 2015 (Wikidata) - [Open University of Israel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/open-university-of-israel/) · Raanana, Israel —2023–2024 on 8 papers - [Tel Aviv University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tel-aviv-university/) · Tel Aviv, Israel —2012–2017 on 1 paper · education 2012–2013 (Wikidata) - [Hebrew University of Jerusalem](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hebrew-university-of-jerusalem/) · Jerusalem, Israel —education 2014–2015 (Wikidata) - [Freie Universität Berlin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/freie-universitat-berlin/) · Berlin, Germany —education 2008–2012 (Wikidata) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Semitic languages 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Akkadian and cuneiform NLP 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/akkadian-cuneiform-nlp/) · [Word sense disambiguation 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/) · [Morphology 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Idioms & multiword expressions 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aclbulk-2026-bernstein-layered-annotation-workflow-semitic-epigraphy/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aclbulk-2025-gordin-evacun-2025-shared-task-lemmatization/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ong-2024-neo-assyrian-metaphors-through-telescope/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aclbulk-2021-stekel-word-sense-induction-attentive-context/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/langstream-2020-fetaya-restoration-fragmentary-babylonian-texts-using/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Restoration of Fragmentary Babylonian Texts Using Recurrent Neural Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/langstream-2020-fetaya-restoration-fragmentary-babylonian-texts-using/)** *(2020 · 65 citations)* Clay tablets from Achaemenid Babylonia are often broken, and experts fill the gaps by hand. The authors collect about 2,250 late Babylonian archival texts (legal, economic and administrative) from an online corpus, tokenise them with a custom Akkadian tokenizer (names, gods, places and months become class tokens… 2. **[Word Sense Induction with Attentive Context Clustering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aclbulk-2021-stekel-word-sense-induction-attentive-context/)** *(2021 · 5 citations)* ACCWSI induces the senses of an ambiguous lemma without a large pretrained model. A small word2vec model is trained on the corpus; for each sentence with the query lemma, cosine similarity between the lemma vector and each context word gives softmax weights, and the weighted sum is a context-aware vector. These… 3. **[EvaCun 2025 Shared Task: Lemmatization and Token Prediction in Akkadian and Sumerian using LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aclbulk-2025-gordin-evacun-2025-shared-task-lemmatization/)** *(2025 · 2 citations)* The shared task asks for two things on cuneiform text: lemmatization (the base form of each word) and token prediction (filling a masked word from its context). 4. **[Neo-Assyrian Metaphors through the Telescope: Linguistic Patterns involving Body Part Constructions in the State Archives Letter Corpus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ong-2024-neo-assyrian-metaphors-through-telescope/)** *(2024 · 1 citation)* In first-millennium Akkadian, simple prepositions were increasingly replaced by compound ones built from a preposition plus a body-part noun (e.g., ina muhhi , literally "in the skull of"). 5. **[A Layered Annotation Workflow for Semitic Epigraphy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aclbulk-2026-bernstein-layered-annotation-workflow-semitic-epigraphy/)** *(2026)* The authors describe a web annotation platform for Phoenician inscriptions, built on a curated subset of KAI, with a React front end and a Firestore back end. ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Aleksi Sahala](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aleksi-sahala/) - [Amos Azaria](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amos-azaria/) - [Stav Klein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stav-klein/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 17 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [4 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shai-gordin/cited-by/).