Prof. Yaakov Hacohen-Kerner
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Personal Details
Name: Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner
Address (work): 21 Havaad Haleumi St., POB 16031, Jerusalem 9116001, ISRAEL
Address (home): 32/3 Eliezer Ha-Levi St., Jerusalem 9610819, ISRAEL
Telephone: 972-2-6751018, 972-2-67501294 (work), 972-2-6511620 (home),
Cell-phone: 972-545-393-185
Email: kerner@jct.ac.il Fax: 972-2-6751046 (work)
Birth Date: 12-JUN-64 Birth Place: Israel
Immigration Date: Citizenship: Israeli
1. Academic Education
1991-1997 Ph.D. in Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
Thesis title: "The Judge's Apprentice:
A Case-Based Decision Support System for Criminal Sentencing",
under the supervision of Prof. U. J. Schild and Prof. M. C. Golumbic.
1992 Computer Science Teaching Certificate, Bar-Ilan University, summa cum laude.
1987-1989 M.Sc. in Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University.
Thesis title: "Legal Systems in a Limited Common-Sense Area",
under the supervision of Prof. U. J. Schild.
1983-1985 B.Sc. in Statistics and Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, cum laude.
2. Academic Appointments
2011-present Associate Professor, Computer Science Dep., Jerusalem College of Technology
2004-2011 Senior Lecturer, Computer Science Dep., Jerusalem College of Technology
2010- present Senior Lecturer, M.A. program for Science, Halacha and Education,
Bar-Ilan University
2008-present Senior Lecturer, Computer Science Dep., Lifshitz Teachers College
2002-2004 Senior Teacher, Computer Science Dep., C Jerusalem College of Technology
1997-2002 Lecturer, Computer Science Dep., C Jerusalem College of Technology
1991-1995 Teaching assistant, Computer Science Dep., Bar-Ilan University
3. Relevant Non-academic Employment
1996-1997 Lecturer, SELA - Software & Education Labs. LTD
1985-1989 Programming officer in the IDF in the environment of VAX/VMS
4. Awards and Honors for Academic or Professional Achievement [in chronological order]
1983, 1985 Dean's list.
1993 Doctorants' distinction award, Bar-Ilan university.
1993 Research award from the "Ben-Gurion Fund for the Encouragement of Research", Histadrut - The General Federation of Labour in Israel.
5. Research and Development Activities
5.1 Summary of Current Research and Development Activities
Intelligent text processing
Abbreviation disambiguation
Citation extraction and analysis
Key-phrase extraction
Plagiarism detection in papers
Language evolution in rabbinic responsa
Information retrieval
Retrieving Faulty Word-Strings
5.2 Future Directions for Research and Development.
Intelligent text processing: Word prediction in Hebrew, Scientific etymology, Clustering
Computer game playing: Creative composition of n-move mate problems
5.3 Summary of Past Research and Development Activities
Torah and scholarship
Intelligent text processing
Abbreviation disambiguation
Citation extraction and analysis
Key-phrase extraction
Plagiarism detection
Text classification
Text summarization
Computer game playing
Computer chess
Problem composition
Information retrieval
Machine learning
Case-based reasoning
Artificial intelligence and law
6. Publications
6.1 Peer-Reviewed Papers in Refereed Journals (not conference proceedings)
before last appointment (associate professor, JUL/11)
(1) The Judge’s Apprentice / HaCohen-Kerner Y. and Schild U. J.
The New Review of Applied Expert Systems, Vol. 5, pp. 191-202, 1999.
(2) An Improver of Chess Problems / HaCohen-Kerner Y., Cohen N. and Shasha E.
Cybernetics and Systems (impact factor: 0.78), Vol. 30, 5, pp. 441-465, 1999.
(3) Case-Based Sentencing Using a Tree of Legal concepts / HaCohen-Kerner Y. and Schild U. J., Information and Communications Technology Law, Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence and legal Reasoning, Vol. 10, 1, pp. 125-135, 2001.
(4) The Case-Based Matchmaker / HaCohen-Kerner Y., Boaron H. and Yitzaak E.,
The International Journal of Computers and Their Applications, Special Issue on Intelligent Systems, Vol. 8, 2, pp. 55-64, 2001.
(5) A O(n2) heuristic algorithm for the maximum matching problem in bipartite graphs / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Yaakov Intrator, Vadim E. Levit, WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics, ISSN 1109-2769, issue 3, volume 3, pp. 521-526, July 2004.
(6) Upgrading Checkers Compositions / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Daniel David Levy, Amnon Segall, WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics, ISSN 1109-2769, issue 3, volume 3, pp. 549-554, July 2004.
(7) A Perspective, Informed by Artificial Intelligence Techniques, on Select Topics in Traditional Rabbinic Texts (in Hebrew)שיטות ייצוג ידע ושיטות היסק במחשבת חז"ל ודמיונן לשיטות) מקבילות בבינה מלאכותית) / HaCohen-Kerner Y., B.D.D. (Bekhol Derakhekha Daehu), Journal of Torah and Scholarship, No. 13, pp. 113-130, Bar-Ilan University, JAN 2003.
(8)On the Sages' Rules for Deciding in Controversies Opposing Tannaitic Authorities Against Each Other (in Hebrew) ( ) / HaCohen-Kerner Y., B.D.D. (Bekhol Derakhekha Daehu), Journal of Torah and Scholarship, No. 14, pp. 99-116, Bar-Ilan University, JAN 2004.
(9) Finding the Correct Stem of an Hebrew Word Using Contexts and Declensions / HaCohen-Kerner Y, Badlov A., Filgut A., WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications, ISSN 1790-0832, issue 6, volume 1, pp. 1491-1496, Dec 2004.
(10) Baseline Keyphrase Extraction Methods from Hebrew News HTML Documents / HaCohen-Kerner Y, Stern I., Korkus D., WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications, ISSN 1790-0832, issue 6, volume 1, pp. 1557-1562, Dec 2004.
(11) A Chess Composer of Two-Move Mate Problems / Fainshtein, F. and HaCohen-Kerner, Y., ICGA (International Computer Games Association) Journal, (impact factor: 0.52), Vol. 29, 1, pp. 3 - 23, MAR 2006.
(12) Deep Improver of Two-move Chess Mate Problems / HaCohen-Kerner Y. and Fainshtein F.,
Cybernetics and Systems, (impact factor: 0.78), Vol. 37, 5, pp. 443 - 462, July-August 2006.
(13) A system that learns to summarize Rabbinic Texts written in Hebrew (in Hebrew) (מערכת הלומדת לסכם כתבים תורניים הלכתיים) / HaCohen-Kerner, Y., Malin E. and Chasson I., B.D.D.[1] (Bekhol Derakhekha Daehu), Journal of Torah and Scholarship, No. 17, pp. 93-120, Bar-Ilan University, SEP 2006.
(14) Automatic Machine Learning of Keyphrase Extraction from Short HTML Documents Written in Hebrew / HaCohen-Kerner Y. Stern I., Korkus D., and Fredj E., Cybernetics and Systems, (impact factor: 0.78), Vol. 38, 1, pp. 1-21, January 2007.
(15) The Computerized preacher – A Prototype of an Automatic System that Creates Short Rabbinic Homily (in Hebrew) (הדרשן הממוחשב – אב-טיפוס של מערכת אוטומטית לבניית דרשות תורניות קצרות) / HaCohen-Kerner, Y., Avigezer, T. S. and Ivgi, H., B.D.D. (Bekhol Derakhekha Daehu), No. 18, pp. 23-46, Bar-Ilan University, APR 2007.
(16) Words as Classifiers of Documents According to Their Historical Period and Ethnic Origin of Their Authors / HaCohen-Kerner Y., Mughaz D., Beck H., Yehudai E., Cybernetics and Systems, (impact factor: 0.78), Vol. 39, 1, pp. 1-16, APR 2008.
(17) A Learning System that Disambiguates Abbreviations in Jewish Law Documents (in Hebrew) (מערכת לומדת המפענחת ראשי-תיבות רב-משמעיים בכתבים תורניים) / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Ariel Kass, Ariel Peretz, B.D.D. (Bekhol Derakhekha Daehu), Journal of Torah and Scholarship, No. 20, pp. 15-36, Bar-Ilan University, MAY 2008.
(18) Classification of Responsa according to their Historical Period and Ethnic Origin Using Words (in Hebrew) (סיווג פסקי שו"ת לפי עדת הפוסק ותקופת החיבור באמצעות מילים) / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Dror Mughaz, Hananya Beck, Elchai Yehudai, B.D.D. (Bekhol Derakhekha Daehu), Journal of Torah and Scholarship, No. 21, pp. 53-73, Bar-Ilan University, MAR 2009.
(19) A Case-Based Reasoning Approach to the Identification of Materials from Diffraction Patterns / Giora Kimmel, Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Ephraim Nissan, and Eugen Berman, Applied Artificial Intelligence, (impact factor: 0.48), Vol. 23, 3, pp. 282-295, MAR 2009.
(20) Cuisine: Classification using Stylistic Feature Sets and/or Name-Based Feature Sets / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Hananya Beck, Elchai Yehudai, Mordechay Rosenstein, Dror Mughaz, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) (impact factor: 2.01), Vol. 61, 8, pp. 1644-1657, August 2010.
(21) HAADS: a Hebrew Aramaic Abbreviation Disambiguation System/ Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Ariel Kass, Ariel Peretz, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) (impact factor: 2.01), Vol. 61, 9, pp. 1923-1932, Sep 2010.
(22) Stylistic Feature Sets as Classifiers of Documents according to their Historical Period and Ethnic Origin / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Hananya Beck, Elchai Yehudai, Dror Mughaz, Applied Artificial Intelligence, (impact factor: 0.48), Vol. 24, 9, pp. 1-16, OCT 2010.
(23) Automatically Identifying Citations in Hebrew-Aramaic Documents / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Nadav Schweitzer, Dror Mughaz, Cybernetics and Systems, (impact factor: 0.78), Vol. 42, 3-4, pp. 180-197, MAR-APR 2011.
Peer-Reviewed Papers in Refereed Journals (not conference proceedings)
since last appointment (associate professor, JUL/11)
(24) Initialism Disambiguation: Man vs. Machine / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Ariel Kass, Ariel Peretz, the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) (impact factor: 2.01), Vol. 64, 10, pp. 2133-2148, OCT 2013.
(25) Authorship Attribution of Responsa using Clustering / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner and Orr Margaliot, Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal, (impact factor: 0.97), 45:6, 530-545, DOI:10.1080/01969722.2014.
(26) Rapid Detection of Similar Papers via Constant Number of Randomized Fingerprints / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner and Aharon Tayeb, (under review)
6.2 Peer-Reviewed Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings (not abstracts)
before last appointment (associate professor, JUL/11)
(1) Multiple Explanation Patterns / Schild U. J. and Kerner Y., In Wess, S.; Althoff, K-D.; and Richter, M. M. (Eds.), Topics in Case-Based Reasoning, Proceedings of the First European Workshop, EWCBR-93, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 837 (pp. 353-364), Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1994.
(2) Case-Based Evaluation in Computer Chess / Kerner Y., In Haton J. P.; Keane, M.; and Manago M. (Eds.), Advances in Case-Based Reasoning, Proceedings of the Second European Workshop, EWCBR-94, LNAI 984, pp. 40-254, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1994.
(3) Learning strategies for explanation patterns: Basic Game Patterns with Application to Chess / Kerner Y., In Veloso M.; and Aamodt, A. (Eds.), Case-Based Reasoning: Research and Development, Proceedings of the First International Conference, ICCBR-95, LNAI 1010, pp. 491-500, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1995.
(4) Developing Computational Models of Discretion to Build Legal Knowledge Based Systems / HaCohen-Kerner Y., Schild U. J. and Zeleznikow J., Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, ICAIL99, pp. 206-213, ACM, Oslo, 1999.
(5) The Case-Based Matchmaker / HaCohen-Kerner Y., Boaron H. and Yitzaak E.,
Proceedings of the ISCA 9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems, pp. 1-4, Cary, NC: International Society for Computers and Their Applications (ISCA), 2000.
(6) Case-Based Sentencing Using a Tree of Legal concepts / HaCohen-Kerner Y. and Schild U. J., Time for AI and Society, Proceedings of the AISB’00 Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Legal Reasoning, pp. 9-16, The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behavior, UK, 2000.
(7) Automatic Extraction of Keywords from Abstracts / HaCohen-Kerner Y. In V. Palade, R. J. Howlett, L. C. Jain (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, Vol. 1, LNAI 2773, pp. 843-849, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2003.
(8) Summarization of Jewish Law Articles in Hebrew / HaCohen-Kerner, Y., Malin E. and Chasson I., Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE-03), Las Vegas, Nevada USA, pp. 172-177, Cary, NC: International Society for Computers and Their Applications (ISCA), 2003.
(9) Applying the Perceptron Rule for Extraction of Keywords from Abstracts / HaCohen-Kerner Y., Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE-03), Las Vegas, Nevada USA, p. 336, Cary, NC: International Society for Computers and Their Applications (ISCA), 2003.
(10) Baseline Methods for Automatic Disambiguation of Abbreviations in Jewish Law Documents / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Ariel Kass, Ariel Peretz, In J. L. Vicedo, P. Martinez-Barco, R. Munoz, M. S. Noeda (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advances in Natural Language Processing, EsTal 2004, Alicante, Spain, October 20-22, 2004, LNAI 3230, pp. 58-69, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2004.
(11) Automatic Extraction and Learning of Keyphrases from Scientific Articles /
Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Zuriel Gross, Asaf Masa, In A. Gelbukh (Ed.), Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing-2005, Mexico City, Mexico, February 13-19, 2005, LNCS 3406, ISSN 0302-9743, pp. 657-669, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
(12) Identifying Historical Period and Ethnic Origin of Documents Using Stylistic Feature Sets/ Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Hananya Beck, Elchai Yehudai, Dror Mughaz, In N. Lavrač, L. Todorovski, and K.P. Jantke (Eds.), Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Discovery Science (DS-2006), Barcelona, Spain, October 7-10, 2006, LNAI 4265, pp. 90-101, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
(13)Identification of the Ethnic Group of the Writers Using Stems/ Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Zvi Boger, Hananya Beck, Elchai Yehudai, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE-07), pp. 5-11, November 7-9, 2007, San Francisco, California USA, 2007.
(14)Document Summarization by Sentence Extraction Using a Genetic Algorithm / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Eylon Malin, Itschack Chasson, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE-07), pp. 46-52, November 7-9, 2007, San Francisco, California USA, 2007.
- Combined One Sense Disambiguation of Abbreviations / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Ariel Kass, Ariel Peretz, Proc. of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-08), Short Papers (Companion Volume), pp. 61-64, Columbus, Ohio, June 15-20, 2008.
(16)Abbreviation Disambiguation: Experiments with Various Variants of the One Sense per Discourse Hypothesis Documents / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Ariel Kass, Ariel Peretz, In E. Kapetanios, V. Sugumaran and M. Spiliopoulou (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB-08), JUNE 24-27, 2008, London, UK, LNCS 5039, pp. 27-39, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2008, ISBN: 978-3-540-69857-9.
(17)Estimating the Birth and Death Years of Authors of Undated Documents using Undated Citations / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner and Dror Mughaz, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (IceTAL 2010), Aug 16-18, 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland, LNCS 6233, pp. 138-149, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2010, ISBN: 978-3-642-14769-2.
(18)Plagiarism Detection in Computer Science Papers / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Aharon Tayeb, Natan Ben-Dror, Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010) , pp. 421-429, Aug 23-27, 2010, Beijing, China.
(19)Initial Experiments with Extraction of Stopwords In Hebrew / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Shmuel Yishai Blitz, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR), pp. 449-453, Oct 25-28, 2010, Valencia, Spain.
(20)Automatic Identification of Biblical Quotations in Hebrew-Aramaic Documents / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Nadav Schweitzer, Yaakov Shoham, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR), pp. 320-325, Oct 25-28, 2010, Valencia, Spain.
6.2 Peer-Reviewed Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings (not abstracts)
since last appointment (associate professor, JUL/11)
(21)Information Retrieval in the Service of Generating Narrative Explanation: What we Want from GALLURA / Ephraim Nissan and Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR), pp. 487-492, Oct 26-29, 2011, Parris, France.
(22)Experiments with Filtered Detection of Similar Academic Papers / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner and Aharon Tayeb, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications (AIMSA 2012), A. Ramsay and G. Agre (Eds.), Varna, Bulgaria, Sep 13- 15, 2012, LNAI 7557, pp. 1-13, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2012.
(23)Basic Word Completion and Prediction for Hebrew / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner and Izek Greenfield, Proceedings of the 19th edition of the Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE 2012), L. Calderón-Benavides et al. (Eds.), Cartagena,
Colombia, Oct 21-25, 2012, LNCS 7608, pp. 237-244. Springer, Heidelberg, 2012.
(24)Experiments in Producing Playful “Explanations” for Given Names (Anthroponyms) in Hebrew and English / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Daniel Nisim Cohen, and Ephraim Nissan, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB2013), 19-21 Jun 2013, University of Salford, MediaCityUK, England, Elisabeth Métais, Farid Meziane, Mohamed Saraee, Vijay Sugumaran, Sunil Vadera (Eds.), NLDB 2013, LNCS 7934, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 321–327, 2013.
(25)Various Document Clustering Tasks using Word Lists / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, and Orr Margaliot, Proceedings of the 9th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, R.E. Banchs et al. (Eds.), December 9-11, 2013, Singapore, AIRS 2013, LNCS 8281, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 156-169, 2013.
- Classifying Papers from Different Computer Science Conferences / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Avi Rosenfeld, Maor Tzidkani, and Daniel Nisim Cohen, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, 14-16 DEC 2013, China, ADMA 2013, Part I, LNAI 8346, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 529–541, 2013.
(27)Conference on Natural Language Processing (POLTAL 2014, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2014.
- Keyphrase Extraction using Textual and Visual Features / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Stefanos Vrochidis, Dimitris Liparas, Anastasia Moumtzidou, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Vision And Language (VL'14), Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Dublin, Ireland, pp. 121–123, 23rd August 2014.
- News articles classification using Random Forests and weighted multimodal features / Dimitris Liparas, Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Stefanos Vrochidis, Anastasia Moumtzidou, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Proceedings of the 3rd Open Interdisciplinary MUMIA Conference and 7th Information Retrieval Facility Conference (IRFC2014), 10 - 12 November 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark, LNCS 8849, pp. 63-75, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2014.
- When Text Authors Lived using Undated Citations / Dror Mughaz, Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner and Dov Gabbay, Proceedings of the 3rd Open Interdisciplinary MUMIA Conference and 7th Information Retrieval Facility Conference (IRFC2014), 10 - 12 November 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark, LNCS 8849, pp. 82-95, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2014.
6.3 Presentations at Conferences with Published Proceedings
6.4 Patents
6.5 Books, Book Sections
Before last appointment (associate professor, JUL/11)
Chapters in Invited Edited Books
Computer Chess and Indexing / HaCohen-Kerner Y.
In :
(1-a) Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (Allen Kent ed.), vol. 68, pp. 45-70,
Marcel Dekker, New York, 2000.
(1-b) Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology (Allen Kent & James G. Williams eds.), vol. 44, pp. 59-80, Marcel Dekker, New York, 2001.
Since last appointment (associate professor, JUL/11)
Chapters in Refereed Edited Books
(2) Graphemic Puns, and Software Making Them Up. The Case of Hebrew, vs. Chinese and Japanese / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Daniel Nisim Cohen, Ephraim Nissan,
and Ghil‘ad Zuckermann. In: Oliviu Felecan and Alina Bughesiu (eds.), Onomastics in the Contemporary Public Space. Newcastle, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2013, pp. 548–556.
Invited Chapters in an Edited Book Dedicated to Prof. Yaacov Choueka
In: Language, Culture, Computation: Essays Dedicated to Yaacov Choueka,
Volume III, Computational Linguistics and Linguistics
(3) “Identifying the Correct Stem of an Ambiguous Hebrew Word” / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner
and Ofir Tzvi Erlich, accepted for publication, pp. xx-xx, 2014.
(4) “Information Retrieval and Question Answering for Assisting Readers of the Late Antique to
Medieval Corpora of the Aggadic Midrash” / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner and Ephraim Nissan, accepted for publication, pp. xx-xx, 2014.
(5) "GALLURA and the Challenge of Combining Phono-Semantic Matching with
Story-Generation: Zoonomastic Illustration” / Ephraim Nissan and Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, accepted for publication, pp. xx-xx, 2014.
7. Funded Projects , Grants or Contracts
Competitive Internal Grants
APR/04-MAR/05 Jerusalem College of Technology
APR/05-MAR/06 Jerusalem College of Technology
OCT/10-SEP/11 Jerusalem College of Technology
OCT/11-SEP/12 Jerusalem College of Technology
OCT/12-SEP/13 Jerusalem College of Technology
JUL/13-SEP/13 Jerusalem College of Technology
OCT/13-SEP/14 Jerusalem College of Technology
8. Other Relevant Academic and Professional Activities
Conference and Seminar Presentations
1990 Intelligent Advisory by Computer/ Schild U. J., Kerner Y. and Schild R.,
The Seventh Annual Israeli Conference for Computers in Teaching, 1990.
1993 My Computer Loves to Read About Violence/ Kerner Y. and Schild U. J.,
BISFAI-93, Bar-Ilan Symposium on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, 1993.
2000 Jewish Sages and Artificial Intelligence ( ("חז"ל ובינה מלאכותית"/ HaCohen-Kerner Y.
The 7th Conference for Torah and Scholarship, Bar-Ilan University, 2000.
2001 A Computerized scholar: Is it Possible? (( "תלמיד חכם ממוחשב הייתכן ?"/ HaCohen-Kerner Y., The 8th Conference for Torah and Scholarship, Jerusalem College of Technology, Machon-Lev, 2001.
2002 Intelligent Religious Systems ("מערכות תורניות אינטליגנטיות") / HaCohen-Kerner Y., The 17th Conference for Information, Hilton Hotel, Tel-Aviv, 2002.
2002 There is no Wise as an Experienced Person "אין חכם כבעל ניסיון בראי התורה, המדע והשילוב ביניהם"/ HaCohen-Kerner Y., The 9th Conference for Torah and Scholarship, Jerusalem College of Technology, Machon-Lev, 2002.
2004 Automatic Summarization of Religious Texts ("סיכום אוטומטי של טקסטים תורניים – אם ("תרצו אין זו אגדה !? " / HaCohen-Kerner Y., The 11th Conference for Torah and Scholarship, Jerusalem College of Technology, Machon-Lev, 2004.
Supervising Graduate Students
M.Sc. Thesis (with prof. Nathan S. Netanyahu)
Fridel Fainshtein:
K-Move Orthodox Chess Direct-mate's Problems Improver, Department of Computer Sciences,
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, 2006.
Ph.D. Dissertation (with prof. Dov Gabbay)
Dror Mughaz:
Estimating the Birth and Death Years of Authors of Undated Documents using Undated Citations,
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, from 2014.
Best paper award
2006 The ICGA Journal Award for the best paper by a first-time author (my M. Sc. student)
A Chess Composer of Two-Move Mate Problems / Fainshtein, F. and HaCohen-Kerner, Y., ICGA (International Computer Games Association) Journal, Vol. 29, 1, pp. 3 - 23, MAR 2006.
Invited talks
"Research in Intelligent Text Processing", Department of Information Systems Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel, 4-May-05.
"Research in Text Classification", Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, 15-Sep-14.
Teaching a course in a M.A. program for Science, Halacha and Education at Bar-Ilan University
2010-Present "Torah, Computers and what between them"
Professional Activities
Member of the following editorial advisory boards
2008-present The Open Artificial Intelligence Journal
2007-present The Open Cybernetics & Systemics Journal
Program committee member for the following conferences
2014 KDIR-14
2014 NLDB-14
2013-4 AAMAS-14
2013 KDIR-13
2012 ICEIS-12
2012 KDIR-12
2011 IJCAI-11
2011 ICEIS-11
2011 KDIR-11
2010 ICEIS-10
2008 CATA-08
2003 CAINE-03
Reviewer for the following journals
2013-2014 Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST)
2009 IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
2008-present ICGA (International Computer Games Association) Journal
2008-present The Open Artificial Intelligence Journal
2007-present The Open Cybernetics & Systemics Journal
2004-present B.D.D. (Bekhol Derakhekha Daehu), the Journal of Torah and Scholarship, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
Reviewer for the following conferences
2014 KDIR-14
2014 NLDB-14
2014 AAMAS-14
2013 KDIR-13
2012 ICEIS-12
2012 KDIR-12
2011 IJCAI-11
2011 ICEIS-11
2011 KDIR-11
2010 ICEIS-10
2008 CATA-08
2003 CAINE-03
Member of the following chairmanships
2005-present The Organization of Torah and Scholarship, placed in Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
Guest editor
2004 Guest Editor of the WSEAS[2] Transactions on Information Science and Applications, ISSN 1790-0832, issue 6, volume 1, Dec 2004.
2004 Associate Editor of the Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS conference on Automation & Information (ICAI’04), Venice, Italy, November 15-17, 2004.
Conference session chair
2013 Chair of the "Classification" session, AIRS-13, the 9th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference,
2013 Chair of the "Applications 1" session, ADMA-13, the 9th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications
2013 Chair of the "Classification 2" session, ADMA-13, the 9th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications
2013 Chair of the "Text Classification" session, NLDB-13, the 18th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems
2008 The 15th Conference for Torah and Scholarship, Jerusalem College of Technology, Machon-Lev.
2003 KES-03, the Seventh International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems
Conference organizer for the following conferences
2007 Conference Organizer, The 5th Internal Conference for Torah, Science and Derech-Eretez, Jerusalem College of Technology (Machon Lev), Jerusalem, Israel, 2007.
2006 Conference Organizer, The 4th Internal Conference for Torah, Science and Derech-Eretez, Jerusalem College of Technology (Machon Lev), Jerusalem, Israel, 2006.
2005 Conference Organizer, The 3rd Internal Conference for Torah, Science and Derech-Eretez, Jerusalem College of Technology (Machon Lev), Jerusalem, Israel, 2005.
2005 One of the Organizers, The 1st Conference of Torah and Science for Youth, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, 2005.
2004 Workshop Organizer, Text Processing: Theory and Applications within the 5th WSEAS International Conference on AUTOMATION & INFORMATION (ICAI'04), Venice, Italy, November 15-17, 2004.
2004 Conference Organizer, The 2nd Internal Conference for Torah, Science and Derech-Eretez, Jerusalem College of Technology (Machon Lev), Jerusalem, Israel, Jul 2004.
2004 Conference Organizer, The1st Internal Conference for Torah, Science and Derech-Eretez, Jerusalem College of Technology (Machon Lev), Jerusalem, Israel, Feb 2004.
Courses taught and course materials developed
Algorithms, Data Structures, Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic
C++, JAVA, Functional Programming (LISP), Logic Programming (PROLOG),
Assembly language, File Organization, Data bases
Conference and Seminar Presentations
2004 Summarizing Jewish Law Articles Using Genetic Algorithms / HaCohen-Kerner, Y., Malin E. and Chasson I., ISCOL'04, The Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics, Bar Ilan University, December 27, 2004.
2005 Torah and Artificial Intelligence / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, The 1st Conference for Torah and Scholarship for Young People, Bar-Ilan University, April 12, 2005.
2005 Automatic Disambiguation of Abbreviations in Jewish Law Documents / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Ariel Kass, Ariel Peretz, The 12th Conference for Torah and Scholarship, Bar-Ilan University, April 18, 2005.
2005 Automatic Machine Learning of Keyphrase Extraction from News HTML Documents / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Ittay Stern, David Korkus, The Eighth Biennial Israeli Symposium on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, Haifa, Israel, June 28-30, 2005.
2005 Abbreviation Disambiguation without Traditional NLP Methods / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Ariel Peretz, Ariel Kass, ISCOL-2005, Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics, Technion, Haifa, Israel, June 22, 2005.
2006 Torah and Computers / Y. HaCohen-Kerner, H. Beck, E. Yehudai, D. Mughaz and Z. Boger, The 13th Conference for Torah and Scholarship, Jerusalem College of Technology, Machon-Lev, 2006.
2006 Classification of Jewish Law articles / Y. HaCohen-Kerner, H. Beck, E. Yehudai, D. Mughaz and Z. Boger, ISCOL-2006, Israeli Seminar in Computational Linguistics, University of Haifa, June 29, 2006.
2009 Estimating the Time Frame in which Authors of Texts Lived / Y. HaCohen-Kerner, and D. Mughaz, The 16th Conference for Torah and Scholarship, Bar-Ilan University, March 30, 2009.
Teaching a course in a M.A. program for Science, Halacha and Education at Bar-Ilan University
2010-Present "Torah, Computers and what between them"
Professional Activities
Member of the following editorial advisory boards
2008-present The Open Artificial Intelligence Journal
2007-present The Open Cybernetics & Systemics Journal
Member of the Management Committee (MC) of the intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical (COST) Research in:
· COST IC1307 – "The European Network on Integrating Vision and Language (iV&L Net): Combining Computer Vision and Language Processing For Advanced Search, Retrieval, Annotation and Description of Visual Data" (2014-Now)
· COST IC1302 - “Semantic keyword-based search on structured data sources - (KEYSTONE)” (2013-Now)
· COST IC1207 – "PARSing and Multi-word Expressions. Towards linguistic precision and computational efficiency in natural language processing (PARSEME)" (2013-Now)
· COST IC1002 - “Multilingual and Multifaceted Interactive Information Access – (MUMIA )”- (2013-2014)
Member of the following chairmanships
2005-2009 The Organization of Torah and Scholarship, placed in Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
Guest editor
2004 Guest Editor of the WSEAS[3] Transactions on Information Science and Applications, ISSN 1790-0832, issue 6, volume 1, Dec 2004.
2004 Associate Editor of the Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS conference on Automation & Information (ICAI’04), Venice, Italy, November 15-17, 2004.
Conference organizer for the following conferences:
2007 Conference Organizer, The 5th Internal Conference for Torah, Science and Derech-Eretez, Jerusalem College of Technology (Machon Lev), Jerusalem, Israel, 2007.
2006 Conference Organizer, The 4th Internal Conference for Torah, Science and Derech-Eretez, Jerusalem College of Technology (Machon Lev), Jerusalem, Israel, 2006.
2005 Conference Organizer, The 3rd Internal Conference for Torah, Science and Derech-Eretez, Jerusalem College of Technology (Machon Lev), Jerusalem, Israel, 2005.
2005 One of the Organizers, The 1st Conference of Torah and Science for Youth, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, 2005.
2004 Workshop Organizer, Text Processing: Theory and Applications within the 5th WSEAS International Conference on AUTOMATION & INFORMATION (ICAI'04), Venice, Italy, November 15-17, 2004.
2004 Conference Organizer, The 2nd Internal Conference for Torah, Science and Derech-Eretez, Jerusalem College of Technology (Machon Lev), Jerusalem, Israel, Jul 2004.
2004 Conference Organizer, The1st Internal Conference for Torah, Science and Derech-Eretez, Jerusalem College of Technology (Machon Lev), Jerusalem, Israel, Feb 2004.
Jerusalem College of Technology’s Committees and Functions
2014 Member, Executive Standing Committee of the Senate.
2012-present Member, The Constitution and Regulations Committee of the Senate.
2012-present Member, Appointments and Promotions Committee of the Senate.
2007- present Head of the excellence program for outstanding engineering students.
2004-2007 Chair, Torah with Derech-Eretez committee.
2001-2002 Member, Teaching committee of the Senate.
Courses taught and course materials developed
Algorithms, Data Structures, Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic, C++, JAVA, Functional Programming (LISP), Logic Programming (PROLOG), Automata and Formal Languages, Introduction to Computer Science, File Organization, Data Bases, Assembler, "Torah, Computers and what between them"
9. Public Service
Pre-marriage counselor/guide for grooms
A few weekly Torah lessons at Yeshivat Hameiri (Jerusalem)
Last Updated Date : 30/03/2016
