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# Bar-Ilan University

University · BIU [Ramat Gan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/tel-aviv/), Israelin the agglomeration of [Tel Aviv](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/tel-aviv/)

- [Website](http://www1.biu.ac.il/indexE.php)
- [ROR](https://ror.org/03kgsv495)
- [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/I13955877)

[**102** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bar-ilan-university/works/) · [**66** people with a page](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bar-ilan-university/authors/) · [**17,587** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bar-ilan-university/works/) · [**7,492** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bar-ilan-university/works/)

## People (66)

Authors with a page here who worked or studied at Bar-Ilan University: first those whose cited work was done most here; beside each, their citations.

### Core (31)

Confirmed by their records, or by their bylines here with a fair part of their work.

- [Yoav Goldberg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoav-goldberg/) — current · 2013–2026 on 268 papers · employment (ORCID) · employment (Wikidata) · 48 papers here · 17,415 citations
- [Ido Dagan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ido-dagan/) — current · 1995–2026 on 306 papers · 27 papers here · 9,298 citations
- [Reut Tsarfaty](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/reut-tsarfaty/) — current · 2020–2026 on 90 papers · 36 papers here · 4,460 citations
- [Roee Aharoni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/roee-aharoni/) — 2014–2023 on 13 papers · 9 papers here · 3,136 citations
- [Alon Jacovi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alon-jacovi/) — 2018–2024 on 23 papers · 2 papers here · 2,097 citations
- [Yanai Elazar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanai-elazar/) — current · 2018–2026 on 29 papers · 5 papers here · 2,636 citations
- [Vered Shwartz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vered-shwartz/) — 2015–2019 on 16 papers · education (Wikidata) · 8 papers here · 1,999 citations
- [Avi Caciularu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/avi-caciularu/) — 2020–2023 on 46 papers · 3 papers here · 1,507 citations
- [Hila Gonen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hila-gonen/) — 2019–2020 on 6 papers · 4 papers here · 1,825 citations
- [Eliyahu Kiperwasser](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eliyahu-kiperwasser/) — 2013–2018 on 6 papers · 2 papers here · 1,033 citations
- [Shauli Ravfogel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shauli-ravfogel/) — 2018–2025 on 57 papers · 3 papers here · 1,339 citations
- [Idan Szpektor](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/idan-szpektor/) — current · 2005–2026 on 15 papers · 5 papers here · 2,311 citations
- [Oren Melamud](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oren-melamud/) — 2005–2016 on 12 papers · 2 papers here · 810 citations
- [Omer Goldman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omer-goldman/) — 2021–2023 on 14 papers · 2 papers here · 1,006 citations
- [Valentina Pyatkin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/valentina-pyatkin/) — 2020–2024 on 14 papers · 9 papers here · 1,429 citations
- [Moshe Koppel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/moshe-koppel/) — current · 1985–2026 on 99 papers · 15 papers here · 484 citations
- [Jessica Ficler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jessica-ficler/) — current · 2014–2017 on 8 papers · 2 papers here · 433 citations
- [Arie Cattan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arie-cattan/) — current · 2020–2026 on 28 papers · 5 papers here · 447 citations
- [Alon Eirew](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alon-eirew/) — current · 2020–2025 on 15 papers · 5 papers here · 366 citations
- [Ayal Klein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ayal-klein/) — current · 2019–2026 on 14 papers · 3 papers here · 201 citations
- [Avi Shmidman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/avi-shmidman/) — current · 2013–2026 on 28 papers · 22 papers here · 181 citations
- [Dan Bareket](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-bareket/) — 2020–2023 on 7 papers · 5 papers here · 197 citations
- [Shon Otmazgin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shon-otmazgin/) — current · 2022–2023 on 6 papers · 2 papers here · 99 citations
- [Chaya Liebeskind](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chaya-liebeskind/) — 2012–2019 on 9 papers · 9 papers here · 201 citations
- [Meni Adler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meni-adler/) — current · 2012–2017 on 6 papers · 3 papers here · 153 citations

**Also published with this affiliation (35)**

Matched by the bylines of their papers, not confirmed: few papers there, or a small part of their work.

- [Omer Levy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omer-levy/) — 2014–2022 on 16 papers · education (Wikidata) · 18 papers here · 35,123 citations
- [Eric Wallace](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-wallace/) — 2020 on 2 papers · 12 papers here · 11,062 citations
- [Bill Dolan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bill-dolan/) — 2007–2010 on 2 papers · 11 papers here · 8,455 citations
- [Yoav Artzi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoav-artzi/) — 2020 on 2 papers · 7 papers here · 9,706 citations
- [Matt Gardner](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matt-gardner/) — 2020 on 2 papers · 18 papers here · 8,147 citations
- [Kevin Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-lin/) — 2020 on 2 papers · 6 papers here · 4,642 citations
- [Ian Tenney](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ian-tenney/) — 2020 on 2 papers · 5 papers here · 7,786 citations
- [Dan Roth](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-roth/) — 2019–2020 on 3 papers · 32 papers here · 16,275 citations
- [Jonathan Berant](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-berant/) — 2015–2020 on 2 papers · 17 papers here · 7,412 citations
- [Daniel Khashabi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-khashabi/) — 2020 on 2 papers · 9 papers here · 5,567 citations
- [Nitish Gupta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nitish-gupta/) — 2020 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 1,782 citations
- [Gabriel Stanovsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gabriel-stanovsky/) — 2014–2017 on 10 papers · education (ORCID) · 11 papers here · 2,307 citations
- [Ben Bogin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ben-bogin/) — 2020 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 1,066 citations
- [Qiang Ning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qiang-ning/) — 2020 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 899 citations
- [Sanjay Subramanian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sanjay-subramanian/) — 2020 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 739 citations
- [Phoebe Mulcaire](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/phoebe-mulcaire/) — 2020 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 640 citations
- [Amit Seker](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amit-seker/) — current · 2020–2022 on 4 papers · 8 papers here · 312 citations
- [Elron Bandel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elron-bandel/) — 2022 on 4 papers · 2 papers here · 165 citations
- [Daniela Stepanov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniela-stepanov/) — current · 2019–2020 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 124 citations
- [Refael Shaked Greenfeld](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/refael-shaked-greenfeld/) — current · 2022–2026 on 3 papers · 3 papers here · 113 citations
- [Shaltiel Shmidman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shaltiel-shmidman/) — 2020–2025 on 3 papers · 13 papers here · 119 citations
- [Shoval Sadde](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shoval-sadde/) — 2021–2022 on 3 papers · 3 papers here · 92 citations
- [Asaf Achi Mordechai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/asaf-achi-mordechai/) — current · 2024 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 7 citations
- [Hillel Gershuni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hillel-gershuni/) — current · 2025–2026 on 3 papers · 3 papers here · 6 citations
- [Matan Eyal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matan-eyal/) — current · 2026 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 5,643 citations

The first 25; all on the full list below.

[See all 66 people →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bar-ilan-university/authors/)

## Works in our library (102)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

- [Universal Dependencies v1: A Multilingual Treebank Collection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nivre-2016-universal-dependencies-v1-multilingual-treebank/) — Joakim Nivre, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Filip Ginter, et al. · 2016 · 1,739 citations
- [Assessing the Ability of LSTMs to Learn Syntax-Sensitive Dependencies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/linzen-2016-assessing-ability-lstms-learn-syntax/) — Tal Linzen, Emmanuel Dupoux, Yoav Goldberg · 2016 · 1,239 citations
- [Simple and Accurate Dependency Parsing Using Bidirectional LSTM Feature Representations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kiperwasser-2016-simple-accurate-dependency-parsing-bidirectional/) — Eliyahu Kiperwasser, Yoav Goldberg · 2016 · 903 citations
- [Linguistic Regularities in Sparse and Explicit Word Representations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/levy-2014-linguistic-regularities-sparse-explicit-word/) — Omer Levy, Yoav Goldberg · 2014 · 790 citations
- [Universal Dependency Annotation for Multilingual Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mcdonald-2013-universal-dependency-annotation-multilingual-parsing/) — Ryan McDonald, Joakim Nivre, Yvonne Quirmbach-Brundage, et al. · 2013 · 749 citations
- [Towards Faithfully Interpretable NLP Systems: How Should We Define and Evaluate Faithfulness?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jacovi-2020-faithfully-interpretable-nlp-systems-how/) — Alon Jacovi, Yoav Goldberg · 2020 · 747 citations
- [context2vec: Learning Generic Context Embedding with Bidirectional LSTM](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/melamud-2016-context2vec-learning-generic-context-embedding/) — Oren Melamud, Jacob Goldberger, Ido Dagan · 2016 · 666 citations
- [Evaluating Models' Local Decision Boundaries via Contrast Sets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gardner-2020-evaluating-models-local-decision-boundaries/) — Matt Gardner, Yoav Artzi, Victoria Basmov, et al. · 2020 · 520 citations
- [Breaking NLI Systems with Sentences that Require Simple Lexical Inferences](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/glockner-2018-breaking-nli-systems-sentences-that/) — Max Glockner, Vered Shwartz, Yoav Goldberg · 2018 · 517 citations
- [Assessing BERT's Syntactic Abilities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/goldberg-2019-assessing-bert-s-syntactic-abilities/) — Yoav Goldberg · 2019 · 509 citations
- [Null It Out: Guarding Protected Attributes by Iterative Nullspace Projection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ravfogel-2020-null-it-out-guarding-protected/) — Shauli Ravfogel, Yanai Elazar, Hila Gonen, et al. · 2020 · 480 citations
- [Ranking Generated Summaries by Correctness: An Interesting but Challenging Application for Natural Language Inference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/falke-2019-ranking-generated-summaries-correctness-interesting/) — Tobias Falke, Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro, Prasetya Ajie Utama, et al. · 2019 · 444 citations
- [oLMpics — On what Language Model Pre-training Captures](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/talmor-2019-olmpics-language-model-pre-training/) — Alon Talmor, Yanai Elazar, Yoav Goldberg, et al. · 2019 · 432 citations
- [Controlling Linguistic Style Aspects in Neural Language Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ficler-2017-controlling-linguistic-style-aspects-neural/) — Jessica Ficler, Yoav Goldberg · 2017 · 424 citations
- [BitFit: Simple Parameter-efficient Fine-tuning for Transformer-based Masked Language-models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ben-zaken-2021-bitfit-simple-parameter-efficient-fine/) — Elad Ben-Zaken, Shauli Ravfogel, Yoav Goldberg · 2021 · 388 citations
- [Massively Multilingual Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aharoni-2019-massively-multilingual-neural-machine-translation/) — Roee Aharoni, Melvin Johnson, Orhan Firat · 2019 · 367 citations
- [Adversarial Removal of Demographic Attributes from Text Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elazar-2018-adversarial-removal-demographic-attributes-text/) — Yanai Elazar, Yoav Goldberg · 2018 · 357 citations
- [Transformer Feed-Forward Layers Build Predictions by Promoting Concepts in the Vocabulary Space](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/geva-2022-transformer-feed-forward-layers-build/) — Mor Geva, Avi Caciularu, Kevin Ro Wang, et al. · 2022 · 342 citations
- [Unsupervised Domain Clusters in Pretrained Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aharoni-2020-unsupervised-domain-clusters-pretrained-language/) — Roee Aharoni, Yoav Goldberg · 2020 · 326 citations
- [Do Supervised Distributional Methods Really Learn Lexical Inference Relations?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/levy-2015-do-supervised-distributional-methods-really/) — Omer Levy, Steffen Remus, Chris Biemann, et al. · 2015 · 325 citations
- [Improving Hypernymy Detection with an Integrated Path-based and Distributional Method](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shwartz-2016-improving-hypernymy-detection-integrated-path/) — Vered Shwartz, Yoav Goldberg, Ido Dagan · 2016 · 319 citations
- [On the Practical Computational Power of Finite Precision RNNs for Language Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/weiss-2018-practical-computational-power-finite-precision/) — Gail Weiss, Yoav Goldberg, Eran Yahav · 2018 · 310 citations
- [The Distributional Inclusion Hypotheses and Lexical Entailment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/geffet-2005-distributional-inclusion-hypotheses-lexical-entailment/) — Maayan Geffet, Ido Dagan · 2005 · 290 citations
- [Zero-Shot Transfer Learning for Event Extraction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/huang-2018-zero-shot-transfer-learning-event/) — Lifu Huang, Heng Ji, Kyunghyun Cho, et al. · 2018 · 272 citations
- [Overview of the SPMRL 2013 Shared Task: A Cross-Framework Evaluation of Parsing Morphologically Rich Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/seddah-2013-overview-spmrl-2013-shared-task/) — Djamé Seddah, Reut Tsarfaty, Sandra Kübler, et al. · 2013 · 244 citations

[See all 102 works →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bar-ilan-university/works/)

## Topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Hebrew & Aramaic (41)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/) · [Semitic languages (39)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Language models & pretraining (11)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Morphology (11)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Coreference resolution (9)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (8)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Reasoning (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Semantic role labeling (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/) · [Machine translation (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Universal Dependencies (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/universal-dependencies/) · [Question answering (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/) · [Idioms & multiword expressions (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/) · [Discourse analysis (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/)

**14 more topics**

[Dependency parsing (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/) · [Part-of-speech tagging (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) · [Summarization (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Named entity recognition (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Word sense disambiguation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/) · [Treebanks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/treebanks/) · [Information extraction (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/) · [Sentiment & emotion (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Text generation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [Lexical semantics & word embeddings (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/lexical-semantics/) · [Legal AI (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/) · [Interpretability (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [Historical linguistics & language change (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-change/)

## Fields

[Linguistics & languages (76)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/linguistics/) · [Natural language processing (47)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/nlp/) · [Machine translation (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/machine-translation/) · [AI & machine learning (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/ai/) · [Computing & GPUs (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computing/) · [Law (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/law/) · [History & humanities (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/history/)

## Collaborates with

Institutions on the bylines of the same works here; the number is the works they share.

[Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence 24](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/allen-institute-for-artificial-intelligence/) [Tel Aviv University 9](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tel-aviv-university/) [Google 7](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) [Intel (Israel) 7](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/intel-israel/) [University of Washington 6](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) [Hebrew University of Jerusalem 6](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hebrew-university-of-jerusalem/) [Technische Universität Darmstadt 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/technische-universitat-darmstadt/) [Open University of Israel 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/open-university-of-israel/) [Stanford University 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) [University of Edinburgh 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) [Uppsala University 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/uppsala-university/) [Weizmann Institute of Science 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/weizmann-institute-of-science/)

## Parent and units

**Related** Sheba Medical Center

From the Research Organization Registry (ROR); those with a page here are linked.

Works and people from the bylines of the papers (OpenAlex): a person listed here worked or studied at Bar-Ilan University; employment or education is named only where the person's ORCID record or Wikidata says so. Institution data from ROR and OpenAlex.