עברית

Dr. Avi Shmidman

Email
avi.shmidman@biu.ac.il
Office
Building 410, floor 3, room 302
Reception Hours
by appointment
Personal Website
Publications

Scientific Articles

  1. Yehoshua Granat and Avi Shmidman, “‘Who Made One’: The Six Days of Creation and the Six Orders of the Mishnah in a Poetic Grace after Meals by Joseph ibn Abitur” [Hebrew], Ginzei Qedem 1 (2004), 79-116 Download PDF
  2. Avi Shmidman, “The Liturgical Function of the Piyyutim for the Grace after Meals” [Hebrew], Ginzei Qedem 2 (2005), 45-102 Download PDF
  3. Uri Ehrlich and Avi Shmidman, “‘Our God Our King’ at the End of the Amidah and the Grace after Meals: its Origin, its Formulation, and its Status” [Hebrew], Ginzei Qedem 3 (2006), 9‑28 Download PDF
  4. Avi Shmidman, “When were the Grace-after-Meals Piyyutim for Yom Kippur Recited?” [Hebrew], Ginzei Qedem 4 (2007), 61-90 Download PDF
  5. Avi Shmidman, “Developments within the Statutory Text of the Birkat ha-Mazon in Light of its Poetic Counterparts,” in: A. Gerhards and C. Leonhard (ed.), Jewish and Christian Liturgy and Worship: New Insights into its History and Interactions, Leiden: Brill 2007, 109-126 Download PDF
  6. Avi Shmidman, “On the Liturgical Function of DSS Document 4Q434a,” Zutot 5 (2008), 15‑22 Download PDF
  7. Avi Shmidman, “Piyyutim for the Grace after Meals for Nuptial Occasions from the Cairo Genizah” [Hebrew], Pirkei Shira 4 (2008), 9-25 Download PDF
  8. Avi Shmidman, “Congregational Participation within the Biblical Story in the Yotser Poems of Shlomo Suliman,” in: W. van Bekkum and N. Katsumata (ed.), Giving a Diamond: Essays in Honor of Joseph Yahalom on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, Leiden: Brill 2011, 137‑158 Download PDF
  9. Avi Shmidman, “A Multifaceted Nuptial Blessing: The Use of Ruth 4:11‑12 within Medieval Hebrew Epithalamia,” Melilah: Manchester Journal of Jewish Studies 8 (2011), 96‑112 Download PDF
  10. Avi Shmidman, “DHR as ‘Light’ in Early Piyyut” [Hebrew], Lešonenu 75 (2012), 37‑54 Download PDF
  11. Uri Ehrlich and Avi Shmidman, “Genizah Fragments of the Grace after Meals with Zimun according to the Ancient Palestinian Order of Service” [Hebrew], Ginzei Qedem 8 (2012), 67‑109 Download PDF
  12. Uri Ehrlich and Avi Shmidman, “‘Amen, in our Day…’: The Development of a New Paragraph within the Grace after Meals” [Hebrew], Tarbiẕ 82, 1 (2013), 115‑137 Download PDF
  13. Avi Shmidman, “Qinnot for the 10th of Tevet and the 17th of Tammuz” [Hebrew], Tarbiẕ 82, 2 (2013), 241‑268 Download PDF
  14. Avi Shmidman, “Intertextual Supplications in Liturgical Poetry of Yehuda Halevi,” Frankfurter Judaistische Beiträge 38 (2013), 25-48 Download PDF
  15. Avi Shmidman, “Use of the Root ‘dhr’ as ‘Roaring’ in Early Piyyut,” Zutot 10 (2013), 41-51 Download PDF
  16. Avi Shmidman, “A 12th-13th-Century Specimen of the Eastern Rite for the Tenth of Tevet,” HUCA 84-85 (2013-2014), 89-108 Download PDF
  17. Avi Shmidman, “Joseph ibn Abitur’s Seliḥah Poems for the 10th of Tevet” [Hebrew], Kobez al Yad 23 (2015), 1-47 Download PDF
  18. Avi Shmidman, “The Liturgical Role of the Ḥatanu poems” [Hebrew], Tarbiẕ 83 (2015), 87-113 Download PDF
  19. Yonatan Belinkov, Alexander Magidow, Maxim Romanov, Avi Shmidman and Moshe Koppel, “A Large-Scale Historical Arabic Corpus,” Proceedings of the COLING Workshop on Language Technology and Tools for Digital Humanities, December 2016 Download PDF
  20. Avi Shmidman, “Qerovot-of-18 fragments attributed to Joseph ibn Abitur” [Hebrew], Kobez al Yad 25 (2017), 129-155 Download PDF
  21. Avi Shmidman, “Intertextual Appropriations from Prophecies of Doom within Yehuda Halevi’s Liturgical Poems” [Hebrew], in: Multitudes for Ephraim: Studies on Jewish Literature Presented to Professor Ephraim Hazan (ed. R. Refael-Vivante and Sh. Refael-Vivante), Jerusalem 2018, 35-47 Download PDF
  22. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal and Avi Shmidman, “Reconstruction of the Mekhilta Deuteronomy Using Philological and Computational Tools,” Journal of Ancient Judaism 9 (2018), 2-25 Download PDF
  23. Avi Shmidman, Moshe Koppel, and Ely Porat, “Identification of Parallel Passages Across a Large Hebrew/Aramaic Corpus,” Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, Special Issue on Computer-Aided Processing of Intertextuality in Ancient Languages, March 2018 Download PDF
  24. Oran Brill, Moshe Koppel and Avi Shmidman, “FAST: Fast and Accurate Synoptic Texts”, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 35 (2019), 254-264 Download PDF
  25. Avi Shmidman, "Hebrew Piyyuṭ and its Byzantine Greek Influences: The Case of the Inverted Construct Form", in: The Poet and the World, ed. J. Yeshaya, E. Hollender and N. Katsumata, Berlin: De Gruyter 2019, 183-195 Download PDF
  26. Avi Shmidman and Uri Ehrlich, “We shall glorify You, our King: A Poetic Passage in the Second Benediction of the Grace after Meals”, in: On Wings of Prayer, ed. N. Calduch-Benages, M. W. Duggan and D. Marx, Berlin: De Gruyter 2019, 317-355 Download PDF
  27. Yonatan Belinkov, Alexander Magidow, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Avi Shmidman and Maxim Romanov, “Studying the history of the Arabic language: language technology and a large-scale historical corpus,” Language Resources and Evaluation 53 (2019), 771-805 Download PDF
  28. Avi Shmidman, Shaltiel Shmidman, Moshe Koppel, Yoav Goldberg, “Nakdan: Professional Hebrew Diacritizer,” in: Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, July 2020, 197-203. Download PDF
  29. Avi Shmidman, Josh Guedalia, Shaltiel Shmidman, Moshe Koppel, Reut Tsarfaty, “A Novel Challenge Set for Hebrew Morphological Disambiguation and Diacritics Restoration”, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, 3316-3326 Download PDF
  30. Avi Shmidman and Uri Ehrlich, “Reconstructing the Early Text of the First Benediction of the Grace After Meals” [Hebrew], Ginzei Qedem 15 (2020), 205-226. Download PDF
  31. Avi Shmidman, “The Biblical Roots of the Tetrameter Meter in Early Piyyut” [Hebrew], Revue Européenne des Etudes Hébraïques 21 (2020), 25-41.  Download PDF
  32. Avi Shmidman and Atara Snowbell, “The Expanded Version of S. Y. Agnon’s ‘Limbs of the Messiah’: A Critical Edition” [Hebrew], Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature 31 (2020), 279-311.
  33. Avi Shmidman and Uri Ehrlich, “The text of the Grace after Meals according to the Prayer Books of Saadia Gaon and Solomon ben Nathan” [Hebrew], Peamim 162 (2021), 57-59. Download PDF
  34. Avi Shmidman and Uri Ehrlich, “The development of the text of the second benediction of the Grace after Meals, according to the Cairo Genizah fragments” [Hebrew], Qovetz al Yad (in press). Download PDF
  35. Avi Shmidman and Uri Ehrlich, “The development of the text of the third benediction of the Grace after Meals, according to the Cairo Genizah fragments” [Hebrew], JSIJ 21 (2021), 1-32. Download PDF
  36. Avi Shmidman, "Did Palestinian Qinnot Serve as Selihot in the Babylonian Rite?", Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature 32 (2021), 23-48 Download PDF
  37. Uri Ehrlich and Avi Shmidman, “The development of the text of the fourth benediction of the Grace after Meals, according to the Cairo Genizah fragments” [Hebrew], Sidra (in press).
  38. Avi Shmidman, "Automatic Identification of Biblical Citations and Allusions in Hebrew Texts", in: #DHJewish - Jewish Studies in the Digital Age, ed. Michelle Chesner, et al., Berlin: DeGruyter, 2022 (in press)
  39. Aynat Rubinstein and Avi Shmidman, “NLP in the DH pipeline: Transfer-learning to a Chronolect”, Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities (NLP4DH 2021), Proceedings of the Workshop, 106-110 Download PDF

Books, Edited

  1. A Word of Hope: Jubilee Volume for Prof. Benjamin Bar‑Tikva (Masoret Hapiyyut Volume 5‑6) [Hebrew], ed. Ephraim Hazan and Avi Shmidman, Ramat-Gan 2017

Encyclopedia articles:

  1. Avi Shmidman, “Construct, Inverted,” Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, ed. Geoffrey Khan, Leiden and Boston: Brill 2013, 595‑596 Download PDF

Posters at Scientific Conventions:

  1. Vered Raziel‑Kretzmer and Avi Shmidman, “Computer-Aided Mapping of Palestinian Liturgical Rites as Represented by the Cairo Genizah Manuscripts,” manuSciences ’15 Conference, Chiemsee, Germany, September 2015. Available here: http://tinyurl.com/pt9zr2r
  2. Avi Shmidman, Shaltiel Shmidman, Moshe Koppel, and Yoav Goldberg, "Automatic Prefix Identification for Hebrew," The Israel Seminar of Computational Linguistics (ISCOL), Haifa, Israel, October 2018. Available here: https://tinyurl.com/yaukkspm
  3. Avi Shmidman, Joshua Guedalia, Shaltiel Shmidman, Moshe Koppel and Reut Tsarfaty, “A Novel Challenge Set for Hebrew Morphological Disambiguation and Diacritics Restoration”, The Israel Seminar of Computational Linguistics (ISCOL), September 2020. Available here: https://tinyurl.com/y2uxajqd
  4. Avi Shmidman, Cheyn Shmuel Shmidman, Shaltiel Shmidman, Joshua Guedalia, and Moshe Koppel, "Real-Time Hebrew Vocalization: Majority Rules, But Not Always", The Israel Seminar of Computational Linguistics (ISCOL), October 2021 Download PDF

Last Updated Date : 15/09/2022