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26.11.2025, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Location: Building 96, Room 313

Organizer: Dr. Elior Sulem

Schedule:

9:00 – 9:25 – Coffee & Registration

9:25 – 9:30: Opening remarks

Session 1: Morphology and Applications

9:30    Dr. Yuval Pinter (BGU) – Splintering Nonconcatenative Languages for Better Tokenization.

9:50    Oriel Perets (BGU) – LCHAIM – Investigating Long-Context Reasoning in Hebrew.

10:10   Prof. Kobi Gal (BGU) – Combining Psychological Theory with NLP for Mental Health.

10:30 – 10:40 Coffee Break

Session 2: Probing language model learning in Hebrew and Arabic

10:40     Dr. Elior Sulem (BGU) – TafBERTa: Learning Grammatical Rules from Small-Scale Language Acquisition Data in Hebrew.

11:00     Mohamad Mohsen and Razan Jbara (BGU) – Probing the Learning Efficiency of Language Models in Arabic.

11:20     Dr. Rotem Dror (University of Haifa) – Text Simplification in Hebrew.

11:40 – 11:50 Coffee Break

Session 3: Code-switching and Cross-linguality

11:50     Prof. Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa) – Shared Lexical Items as Triggers of Code Switching.

12:30    Yuval Gorodissky (BGU) – Cross-lingual Extractive Question Answering with Unanswerable Questions.

12:50    Dr. Kfir Bar and Daniel Weisberg Mitelman (Reichman University) – Code-Switching and Back-Transliteration Using  A Bilingual Model.

13:10    Closing remarks

13:15 – 14:00 Lunch

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Attendance is free but registration is needed.