Nachum Dershowitz

HUMANITIES PUBLICATIONS

    To appear

  1. ++Nachum Dershowitz and Ephraim Nissan, editors, 2013, Language, Culture, Computation: Essays Dedicated to Yaacov Choueka, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vols. 7900-7901, Springer-Verlag, Berlin (two volumes).
  2. Nachum Dershowitz and Tsevi Mazeh, April 2013, “The Blessing Oseh Bereishit for Astronomical Events” (Abstract) (in Hebrew), Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference on Torah U'madda, Jerusalem, Israel.
  3. *Kfir Bar, Yaacov Choueka, and Nachum Dershowitz, 2013, “Matching Phrases for Arabic-to-English Example-Based Translation System”, Language, Culture, Computation: Studies in Honor of Yaacov Choueka, volume II, Nachum Dershowitz and Ephraim Nissan, eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 7901, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
  4. *Yaacov Choueka, Nachum Dershowitz, and Liad Tal, 2013, “Matching with a Hierarchical Ontology”, Language, Culture, Computation: Studies in Honor of Yaacov Choueka, volume I, Nachum Dershowitz and Ephraim Nissan, eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 7900, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
  5. *Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold, 2013, “Jewish Dating Pitfalls and Resources”, Genealogical Research - Scientific Tools and Methodologies, H. Daniel Wagner, ed., Weizmann University Press, Rehovot, Israel.
  6. Lior Wolf and Nachum Dershowitz, July 2013, “Automatic Scribal Analysis of Tibetan Writings” (Abstract), Proceedings of the 13th Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

    7. Pending

  7. *Noga Levy, Adiel Ben-Shalom, Itai Ben-Shalom, Lior Wolf, Nachum Dershowitz, Roni Shweka, Yaacov Choueka, 2012, “Consolidating the Results of Automatic Search in Large Scale Digital Collections”.
  8. Tal Hassner, Lior Wolf, and Nachum Dershowitz, “OCR-Free Transcript Alignment”.
  9. Tamar Lavee, Yoram Zarai, Lior Wolf, and Nachum Dershowitz, “Integrating Copies Obtained from Old and New Preservation Efforts”.

    10. In Preparation

  10. Andrey Stolyarenko and Nachum Dershowitz, 2011, “OCR for Arabic using SIFT Descriptors with On-Line Failure Prediction”.
  11. Noga Levy, Lior Wolf, Nachum Dershowitz, and Peter Stokes, 2013, “Estimating the Distinctiveness of Graphemes and Allographs in Palaeographic Classification”.
  12. Idan Dershowitz, Nachum Dershowitz, Moshe Koppel, and Navot Akiva, “Computerized Source-Criticism of Biblical Texts”.
  13. Idan Dershowitz, Nachum Dershowitz, Tomer Hasid, and Amnon Ta-Shma, “Orthography and Biblical Criticism”.
  14. Edward M. Reingold and Nachum Dershowitz, Calendrical Calculations, fourth edition, Cambridge University Press (print and online editions).

    15. 2013

  15. *Roni Shweka, Yaacov Choueka, Lior Wolf, and Nachum Dershowitz, 2013, “Automatic Extraction of Catalog Data from Digital Images of Historical Manuscripts”, Literary and Linguistic Computing.

    16. 2012

  16. +Kfir Bar and Nachum Dershowitz, Dec. 2012, “Deriving Paraphrases for Highly-Inflected Languages from Comparable Documents”, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Mumbai, India.
  17. Edward M. Reingold and Nachum Dershowitz, Oct. 2012, “Calendars”, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 11th ed. link
  18. *Kfir Bar and Nachum Dershowitz, Sept. 2012, “Semantics for Example-Based Arabic Machine Translation”, Challenges for Arabic Machine Translation, Abdelhadi Soudi, Stephan Vogel, Guenter Neumann, and Ali Farghaly, eds., Natural Language Processing Series, John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
  19. +Noga Levy, Lior Wolf, Nachum Dershowitz, and Peter Stokes, July 2012, “Estimating the Distinctiveness of Graphemes and Allographs in Palaeographic Classification”, Proceedings of Digital Humanities (DH 2012), Hamburg, Germany, Hamburg University Press, pp. 264-267. link
  20. +Nachum Dershowitz and Alex Zhicharevich, April 2012, “Language Classification and Segmentation of Noisy Documents in Hebrew Scripts”, LaTeCH 2012: EACL 2012 workshop on: Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities, Avignon, France.

    21. 2011

  21. *Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold, 2011, “Indian Calendrical Calculations”, Ancient Indian Leaps into Mathematics, B. S. Yadav and Man Mohan, eds., Birkhäuser, Boston, pp. 1-32.
  22. *Lior Wolf, Nachum Dershowitz, Liza Potikha, Tanya German, Roni Shweka, and Yaacov Choueka, 2011, “Automatic Paleographic Exploration of Genizah Manuscripts”, in Kodikologie und Paläographie 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 für Dokumentologie und Editorik, vol. 3, Norderstedt: Books on Demand, Germany, pp. 157-179.
  23. +Lior Wolf, Nachum Dershowitz, Liza Potikha, Roni Shweka, and Yaacov Choueka, Sept. 2011, “Computerized Paleography: Tools for Historical Manuscripts”, Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2011), Benoît Macq and Peter Schelkens, eds., Brussels, Belgium, pp. 3545-3548.
  24. Lior Wolf and Nachum Dershowitz, July 2011, “Identifying Join Candidates in the Cairo Genizah” (Abstract), ESF Workshop on Digital Palaeography, Würzburg, Germany.
  25. Alex Zhicharevich and Nachum Dershowitz, June 2011, “Matching Poorly Recognized Texts to a Corpus” (Abstract), Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics (ISCOL), Bar-Ilan University. (Poster.)
  26. Roni Shweka, Yaacov Choueka, Lior Wolf, Nachum Dershowitz, and Masha Zeldin, June 2011, “Automatic Extraction of Catalog Data from Genizah Fragments’ Images” (Extended Abstract), Digital Humanities (DH 2011), Palo Alto, CA.
  27. +Moshe Koppel, Navot Akiva, Idan Dershowitz, and Nachum Dershowitz, June 2011, “Unsupervised Decomposition of a Document into Authorial Components”, Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-HLT), Portland, OR, 1356-1364. link
  28. *Roni Shweka, Yaacov Choueka, Lior Wolf, and Nachum Dershowitz, 2011, “‘Veqarev otam ehad el ehad’: Zihuy ktav yad vetseruf qit'ei hagnizah beemtsa'ut mahshev (Identifying Handwriting and Joining Genizah Fragments by Computer)”, Ginzei Kedem, vol. 7, pp. 171-207. (In Hebrew.)
  29. *Lior Wolf, Rotem Littman, Naama Mayer, Tanya German, Nachum Dershowitz, Roni Shweka, and Yaacov Choueka, Aug. 2011, “Identifying Join Candidates in the Cairo Genizah”, International Journal of Computer Vision, vol. 94, no. 1, pp. 118-135. Online Oct. 2010. link
  30. +Lior Wolf, Lior Litwak, Nachum Dershowitz, Roni Shweka, and Yaacov Choueka, Nov. 2011, “Active Clustering of Document Fragments using Information Derived from Both Images and Catalogs”, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Dimitris N. Metaxas, Long Quan, Alberto Sanfeliu, and Luc J. Van Gool, eds., Barcelona, Spain, pp. 1661-1667. link
  31. #Kfir Bar and Nachum Dershowitz, Jan. 2011, “Using Verb Paraphrases for Arabic-to-English Example-Based Translation” (Extended Abstract), Workshop on Machine Translation and Morphologically-rich Languages, Haifa, Israel.

    32. 2010

  32. Kfir Bar and Nachum Dershowitz, June 2010, “Using Synonyms for Arabic-to-English Example-Based Translation” (Abstract), Abstracts of the Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics (ISCOL), Tel Aviv University, Israel, pp. 28-29.
  33. °°Nachum Dershowitz, Shalom Lappin, and Shuly Wintner, editors, June 2010, Abstracts of the Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics (ISCOL), Tel Aviv University, Israel.
  34. +Kfir Bar and Nachum Dershowitz, Oct. 2010, “Using Synonyms for Arabic-to-English Example-Based Translation”, The Ninth Biennial Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Denver, CO.

    35. 2009

  35. +Lior Wolf, Rotem Littman, Naama Mayer, Nachum Dershowitz, Roni Shweka, and Yaacov Choueka, Oct. 2009, “Automatically Identifying Join Candidates in the Cairo Genizah” (Extended Abstract), IEEE Workshop on eHeritage and Digital Art Preservation (in conjunction with ICCV 2009), Kyoto, Japan. Best paper award.
  36. Lior Wolf, Rotem Littman, Naama Mayer, Nachum Dershowitz, Roni Shweka, and Yaacov Choueka, Dec. 2009, “Automatically Identifying Join Candidates in the Cairo Genizah” (Abstract), Israel Computer Vision Day, Herzliya, Israel.

    37. 2008

  37. **Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold, 2008, Calendrical Calculations, third edition, Cambridge University Press (477+xxxi pages).

    38. 2006

  38. Kfir Bar, Nachum Dershowitz, and Yaacov Choueka, June 2006, “Example-Based Arabic-English Machine Translation” (Abstract), Israeli Seminar in Computational Linguistics, Haifa.
  39. Nachum Dershowitz, “Maimonidean Calendrical Astronomy” (Abstract), unpublished.

    40. 2004

  40. +Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold, July 2004, “Hebrew Dating” (Abstract), Conference Syllabus of the 24th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, Jerusalem, Israel, p. 129; extended abstract on CD-ROM.

    41. 2002

  41. **Edward M. Reingold and Nachum Dershowitz, 2002, Calendrical Tabulations, Cambridge University Press (606+xxx pages).

    42. 2001

  42. Edward M. Reingold and Nachum Dershowitz, 2001, Calendrical Calculations: The Millennium Edition, Cambridge University Press (423+xxxii pages). Choice’s Outstanding Academic Title Award (2002).

    43. 2000

  43. +Nachum Dershowitz, 2000, “[Hebrew] Calendar”, Reader’s Guide to Judaism, M. Terry, ed., Fitzroy Dearborn, Chicago, IL, pp. 97-98.
  44. *Nachum Dershowitz, Oct. 2000, “Artificial Intelligence: Retrospective/Prospective”, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, vol. 28, nos. 1-4, pp. 3-5. link
  45. Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold, “Calendars”, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 8th ed., 2000. Also available on CD-ROM: McGraw-Hill Multimedia Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Release 2.0, 2000. link

    46. 1999

  46. +Schulamith C. Halevy and Nachum Dershowitz, 1999, “Prácticas Ocultas de los ‘Anusim’ del Nuevo Mundo” (in Spanish), Encuentro y Alteridad: Vida y cultura judia en America Latina, J. B. Liwerant and A. G. de Backal, eds., UNAM, Mexico City, pp. 35-46. English version: “Obscure Practices among New World Anusim”.

    47. 1998

  47. *Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold, 1998, “Implementing Solar Astronomical Calendars”, in: Birashkname, M. Akrami, ed., Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, pp. 477-487.
  48. Nachum Dershowitz, May 1998, “Realistic Virtuality”, abstract of unpublished essay.

    49. 1997

  49. Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold, 1997, Calendrical Calculations, Cambridge University Press (307+xxi pages). Reviewed in: Nature (Jan. 1, 1998); European J. of Physics (Mar. 1998), Computing Reviews (May 1998); Math. Reviews 98g:01007; Astronomy Now (Aug. 1998); ISIS (Dec. 1998); British J. for the History of Science (Mar. 1999); The Mathematical Gazette (Mar 1999); Zbl 894.01023.

    50. 1995

  50. Schulamith C. Halevy and Nachum Dershowitz, Dec. 1995, “Forty Days to Revelation” (audio tape), Twenty-Seventh Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies (Boston, MA).

    51. 1978

  51. *Rony Attar, Yaacov Choueka, Nachum Dershowitz, and Aviezri S. Fraenkel, Jan. 1978, “KEDMA—Linguistic Tools for Retrieval Systems”, J. of the Association of Computing Machinery, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 52-66. Reviewed in Computing Reviews 19:33,532 and Math. Reviews 57 #4702. link