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Shuly Wintner (שולי וינטנר) is an Israeli computer scientist, and a full professor at the University of Haifa in the Computer Science Department. He was promoted to his current rank in 2014 and is the head of the computational linguistics research group and the Caesarea Rothschild Institute (CRI) at the university. As a researcher, he has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and a book. The list of his publications can be found here: Shuly Wintner dblp.

His research spans various areas of computational linguistics and natural language processing, including formal grammars, morphology, syntax, language resources, translation, and multilingualism, with a current focus on multilingualism. He has served as the editor-in-chief of Springer's Research on Language and Computation, a program co-chair of EACL-2006, and the general chair of EACL-2014. He was among the founders, and twice (for a total of six years) the chair, of ACL SIG Semitic. Most recently, he served as the Chair of the European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2021-22).

During 1995-1996 at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Wintner founded and organized the first (and the second) Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics (ISCOL), a venue for exchanging ideas, reporting on work in progress and established results, forming collaborations, and advancing connections between academia and industry. Since then, ISCOL has been a friendly stage for students for their first appearance in this community.

Academic Biography
Wintner received all of his degrees at the Technion. His thesis focuses on "Abstract Machine for Unification Grammars with Applications to an HPSG Grammar for Hebrew". Right after receiving his D.Sc., he held two post-doctoral positions between 1997 and 2000 at Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Tübingen in Germany, and at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania. Afterwards, Wintner joined the University of Haifa.

Research Abstract
Shuly Wintner has made significant contributions to computational linguistics. His collaborative work includes advancements in finite-state and unification-based grammars with practical applications in natural language processing. Notable projects involve the development of finite-state registered automata for non-concatenative morphology, where he defined the model, discussed its mathematical properties, and provided examples of its application to complex morphological and phonological phenomena. This includes addressing how root consonants in Semitic languages are interdigitated into patterns to form words, a key aspect of Hebrew morphology.

Wintner's work also extends to the broader field of Semitic languages. He explored the challenges and methodologies for processing these languages, emphasizing the need for specialized tools and resources to handle their rich morphological structures. His theoretical insights provided a formal framework for analyzing Hebrew and Arabic morphology using finite-state methods. This framework was applied to creating a morphological lexicon for Modern Hebrew, developing morphological and syntactic parsers, and conducting a detailed morphological analysis of the Qur'an, enabling practical use cases such as querying the text.

In addition, Wintner has worked on various aspects of language contact, including the study of translationese, machine translation, cognates, code-switching, and second language acquisition. One study on the properties of translationese showed that characteristics such as simplification and explicitation are predominant in translated texts, allowing them to be easily distinguished by machines. This insight was leveraged to train improved machine translation models by carefully selecting appropriate texts for modeling target language output. Another study demonstrated that the signal of translation is so strong that by analyzing target language texts, one can reconstruct a reliable phylogenetic tree of the translated source languages, showing clear clustering of related languages just by looking at their translation to a shared target language.

Books
Wintner co-authored the book "Unification Grammars" with Nissim Francez, which was published in 2011 by Cambridge University Press.

Additionally, Wintner published a textbook based on a course he taught for 20 years at the University of Haifa. The book, titled "Introduction to Computer Science: C.", is written in Hebrew and was first published in 2012 by the University of Haifa.