The Friedberg Genizah Project

Papers

  1. Lior Wolf, Rotem Littman, Naama Mayer, Tanya German, Nachum Dershowitz, Roni Shweka, and Yaacov Choueka.
    "Automatically Identifying Join Candidates in the Cairo Genizah", International Journal of Computer Vision, 94 (2011), pp. 118-135. (Extended Abstract, Oct. 2009, IEEE Workshop on eHeritage and Digital Art Preservation, in conjunction with ICCV 2009, Kyoto, Japan. Best paper award.)
    2011, English. Click Here.

     

  2. Lior Wolf, Nachum Dershowitz, Liza Potikha, Tanya German, Roni Shweka, and Yaacov Choueka.
    "Automatic Paleographic Exploration of Genizah Manuscripts", in Kodikologie und Palaographie im Digitalen Zeitalter 2 - Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age 2, Franz Fischer, Christiane Fritze, and Georg Vogeler, eds., with Bernhard Assmann, Malte Rehbein, and Patrick Sahle, Schriften des Instituts f�r Dokumentologie und Editorik, vol. 3, Norderstedt: Books on Demand, Germany, pp. 157-179.
    2011, English. Click Here.

     

  3. Roni Shweka, Yaacov Choueka, Lior Wolf, and Nachum Dershowitz.
    "'Veqarev otam ehad el ehad': Zihuy ktav yad vetseruf qit'ei hagnizah beemtsa'ut mahshev (Identifying Handwriting and Joining Genizah Fragments by Computer)", Ginzei Qedem, vol. 7, pp. 173-209.
    2011, Hebrew. Click Here. (For The English Abstract Click Here)

     

  4. Lior Wolf, Nachum Dershowitz, Liza Potikha, Roni Shweka, and Yaacov Choueka.
    "Computerized Paleography: Tools for Historical Manuscripts", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2011), Brussels, Belgium, pp. 3545-3548.
    Sept. 2011, English. Click Here.

     

  5. Lior Wolf, Lior Litwak, Nachum Dershowitz, Roni Shweka, and Yaacov Choueka.
    "Active Clustering of Document Fragments using Information Derived from Both Images and Catalogs", International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2011), Barcelona, Spain, pp. 1661-1667.
    Nov. 2011, English. Click Here.

     

  6. Nachum Dershowitz and Alex Zhicharevich.
    "Language Classification and Segmentation of Noisy Documents in Hebrew Scripts", Proceedings of the 6th EACL Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities, pages 112-117, Avignon, France.
    April 2012, English. Click Here.

     

  7. Yaacov Choueka.
    "1,000-year Manuscripts meet Computer Technology: The Cairo Genizah Case", Bulletin of the Israeli Academic Center in Cairo (The bulletin ceased to appear).
    2012, English. Click Here

     

  8. Yaacov Choueka.
    "Computerizing the Cairo Genizah: Aims, Methodologies and Achievements", Ginzei Qedem, vol. 8, pp. 9*-30* (English Section),
    2012, English. Click Here.

     

  9. Roni Shweka, Yaacov Choueka, Lior Wolf, Nachum Dershowitz.
    "Automatic extraction of catalog data from digital images of historical manuscripts", Literary and Linguistic Computing 28 (2013), pp. 315-330.
    For The Abstract Click Here. For The Full Paper Click Here.

     

  10. Tal Hassner, Lior Wolf, and Nachum Dershowitz.
    "OCR-Free Transcript Alignment", Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2013), Washington DC, USA, pp. 1310-1314.
    August 2013, English. Click Here.

     

  11. Yaacov Choueka.
    "Misimta'ot Kahir la-Internet ha-Mahir - Genizat Kahir u-Mihshuvah", Matmonim u-Gnizot ke-Parashiyot ba-Historia, Ofra Rimon (Ed.), Hecht Museum, Haifa University, Haifa,
    2013, Hebrew. Click Here.

     

  12. Noga Levy, Adiel Ben-Shalom, Itai Ben-Shalom, Lior Wolf, Nachum Dershowitz, Roni Shweka, and Yaacov Choueka.
    "Consolidating the Results of Automatic Search in Large Scale Digital Collections", in Digital Palaeography, Stewart Brookes, Malte Rehbein, and Peter Stokes, eds., Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities Series, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, UK, (to be appeared).
    2014, English. Click Here.

     

  13. Itai Ben Shalom, Noga Levy, Lior Wolf, Nachum Dershowitz, Adiel Ben Shalom, Roni Shweka, Yaacov Choueka, Tamir Hazan, and Yaniv Bar.
    "Congruency-Based Reranking", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Columbus, OH, pp. 2107-2114.
    June 2014, English. Click Here.

     

  14. A. Kovalchuk, L. Wolf, N. Dershowitz.
    "A Simple and Fast Word Spotting Method", Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR) 2014, pp. 3-8. (Winner of the competition on Handwritten Keyword Spotting (track II) in ICFHR 2014).
    2014, English. Click Here.

     

    15. Presentations

  15. Yaacov Choueka.
    "Mihshuv haGenizah Utrumato leHeker haGenizah: haHazon Umimusho"(Computerizing the Cairo Genizah and its Contribution to Genizah Research: the Vision and its Implementation" (Abstract), The 15th World Jewish Congress, Jerusalem.
    Aug. 2009,Hebrew. Click Here. (For English Version Click Here)

     

  16. Roni Shweka.
    "From Old Cairo to the Internet Network - the Digitization of the Cairo Genizah", The 16th Conference of the Israeli Internet Association, Jerusalem.
    Feb. 2012, Hebrew. Click Here.

     

  17. Gitit Kehat and Nachum Dershowitz.
    "Statistical Transliteration of Judeo-Arabic Text" (Poster), Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics (ISCOL), Be'ersheba, Israel,
    June 2013, English. Click Here.

     

  18. Adiel Ben-Shalom, Yaacov Choueka, Nachum Dershowitz, Roni Shweka and Lior Wolf.
    "Where is My Other Half?", Digital Humanities 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland,
    2013, English. Click Here.

     

  19. Nachum Dershowitz and Lior Wolf.
    "From Caves to Cyberspace: AI Aids in the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls", Xth Congress of the European Assocaition of Jewish Studies, Paris,
    July 2014, English. Click Here.

     

  20. Kfir Bar, Nachum Dershowitz, and Yaacov Choueka.
    "Automatic Transliteration of Judeo-Arabic Texts into Arabic Script", Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics (ISCOL), Haifa, Israel, pp. 2-4
    September 2014, English. Click Here.

     

Theses supervised by members of the AI Research Group

  1. Liza Potikha.
    "Computerized Paleography: Exploration of Historical Manuscripts", A Thesis submitted for the degree Master of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University.
    April 2011, English. Click Here.

     

  2. Rima Laidani.
    "Feature Selection for Classification of Join Candidates in the Cairo Genizah", A Thesis submitted for the degree Master of Science, Department of Business Information Systems, University of Westminster.
    October 2011, English. Click Here.

     

  3. Shahar Armon.
    "Handwriting Recognition and Fast Retrieval for Hebrew Historical Manuscripts", A Thesis submitted for the degree Master of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Hebrew University.
    December 2011, English. Click Here.

     

  4. Alex Zhicharevich.
    "Tools to Aid OCR of Hebrew Character Manuscripts", A Thesis submitted for the degree Master of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University.
    March 2012, English. Click Here.

     

  5. Tamar Lavee,
    "Computer Analyses of the Dead Sea Scroll Manuscripts", A Thesis submitted for the degree Master of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University.
    2013, English. Click Here.