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Will Quantum Money replace cryptocurrency? (Part 2)
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An idea from four decades ago might provide a green alternative to Bitcoin.
UNIKUD: Adding Vowels to Hebrew Text with Deep Learning
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Introducing an open-source Hebrew nakdan (נקדן) tool which uses no rule-based logic.
Will Quantum Money replace cryptocurrency? (Part 1)
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Schrödinger’s cat has some surprising applications to the world of digital currency.
publications
Refereed Poster: Lexical items are privileged slots for meaning
Published in Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, CUNY 2015. Los Angeles, California., 2015
Recommended citation: K. Mahowald, S.T. Piantadosi, M. Alper, E. Gibson. (2015). Lexical items are privileged slots for meaning. Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, CUNY 2015. Los Angeles, CA. March 19-21, 2015. https://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/836/docs/CUNY_program_web_reduced_edits.pdf
Auto-generating bilingual dictionaries: Results of the TIAD-2017 shared task baseline algorithm
Published in Proceedings of the LDK workshops: OntoLex, TIAD and Challenges for Wordnets, 2017
In this paper, we present a new set of experiments on automatically generating bilingual dictionaries based on existing ones.
Recommended citation: Alper, M. (2017). Auto-generating bilingual dictionaries: Results of the TIAD-2017 shared task baseline algorithm. In J. McCrae et al. Proceedings of the LDK workshops: OntoLex, TIAD and Challenges for Wordnets. Galway, Ireland, June 18, 2017. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1899/baseline_report.pdf
Is BERT Blind? Exploring the Effect of Vision-and-Language Pretraining on Visual Language Understanding
Published in CVPR, 2023
Recommended citation: Morris Alper, Michael Fiman, & Hadar Averbuch-Elor (2023). Is BERT Blind? Exploring the Effect of Vision-and-Language Pretraining on Visual Language Understanding. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12513
talks
Writing Systems of the World’s Languages
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Presentation on the linguistic typology of writing systems around the world to high school students for MIT Splash 2012. Slides available on GitHub.
Understanding Impaired Speech
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Presentation on using voice recognition technology for impaired speech, representing Voiceitt at the January 2016 טכנולוגיות עיבוד דיבור בעולם הרפואי (Speech Technologies for Healthcare) conference at Afeka College of Engineering.
Auto-Generating Bilingual Dictionaries
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Presentation on associated paper at eLex 2017 conference on electronic lexicography in Leiden, Netherlands. Associated with K Dictionaries. Presentation available on YouTube.
“Deeplomatics”: Deep learning for automatic analysis of cuneiform texts
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Presentation on applying computer vision to analyzing scanned cuneiform texts, associated with the Digital Pasts Lab.