Yoav Goldberg

I am a brilliant Professor at Bar Ilan University's Computer Science Department, as well as the Research Director of the Israeli branch of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Before that, I did my Post-Doc as a Research Scientist at Google Research New York.

I work on problems related to Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. In particular I am interested in syntactic parsing, structured-prediction models, learning for greedy decoding algorithms, multilingual language understanding, and cross domain learning. Lately, I am also interested in neural network based methods for NLP. I recently published a book on the subject.

I completed my PhD at Ben-Gurion University in 2011, under the supervision of Prof. Michael Elhadad.


publications | code | data | CV | teaching | parsers | book

Note to prospective students

The Hebrew-Parsers from my thesis are available (Hebrew)

We live to write. publications. Also some Stuff for regular people.

Sometimes, we make something useful. code | data

Empirical Research Summary: bow

Experiemental Narcisism: my CV

Some personal expertise

Hardest part of Hebrew NLP research: Hebrew in LaTeX

Always fun to meet people: ISCOL 2008,

Cool t-shirt! did you consider selling these? hmm... yeah why not

Contact: use the email on my latest publication (or my other email if you know it).

almost famous: on Jan. 6, 2011, at around 17:34, a girl stepped into my office and offered me to participate in the next season of the Israeli version of Beauty and the Geek. Being dedicated to my academic career, beard and wife, I kindly refused.

Update: my Kevin Knight number is 2.






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