PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Shuly Wintner

Shuly Wintner is a computer scientist whose research spans formal grammar, Hebrew natural language processing and multilingual communication. He earned a computer science PhD from the Technion in 1997, joined the University of Haifa in 2000 and established its Computational Linguistics Group. His early work included an abstract grammar machine and a review of natural language processing for Hebrew. He coauthored code-switching research and language technology for Hebrew parliamentary proceedings, and served as general chair of EACL 2014 and EACL Chair from 2021 to 2022. As of October 2026, he is a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of Haifa.

Born
1963
Works
187
Citations
2,410
h-index
27
Badges

Years link to their sources. Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1994

    Abstract Machine for Typed Feature Structures

    In 1994, he and Nissim Francez coauthor Abstract Machine for Typed Feature Structures.

  2. 1997

    A Technion PhD

    He earns a computer science PhD from the Technion in 1997.

  3. 2000

    Founding Haifa's group

    After joining the University of Haifa in 2000, he establishes its Computational Linguistics Group.

  4. 2004

    Reviewing Hebrew NLP

    In 2004, he reviews theoretical and practical natural language processing for Hebrew.

  5. 2014–2022

    EACL general chair and chair

    He serves as general chair of EACL 2014 and as EACL Chair from 2021 to 2022.

  6. 2023

    Shared words trigger code-switching

    In 2023, he coauthors a study based on five large datasets in three language pairs. It finds that words shared by both languages can trigger code-switching.

  7. 2024–2026

    Knesset models and corpus

    In 2024, he coauthors Knesset-DictaBERT, a Hebrew language model fine-tuned on the Knesset Corpus. In 2025, he coauthors a paper introducing an annotated corpus of Hebrew parliamentary proceedings, and a study that measures affective polarization through the emotional styles of Knesset government and opposition members. The polarization study is accepted/in press at Computational Linguistics in 2026.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor emeritus at Haifa

    As of October 2026, he is a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of Haifa.

Career

  1. Since 2000University of HaifaProfessor Emeritus

Education

  1. 1997TechnionPhD in computer science

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Most-cited works

  1. On the features of translationese2013 · Digital Scholarship in the Humanities · 182 citations
  2. Framing and Agenda-setting in Russian News: a Computational Analysis of Intricate Political Strategies2018 · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 120 citationsWith Dan Jurafsky
  3. Language Models for Machine Translation: Original vs. Translated Texts2012 · Computational Linguistics · 100 citations
  4. Language resources for Hebrew2007 · Computers and the Humanities · 100 citations
  5. Personalized Machine Translation: Preserving Original Author Traits2017 · 95 citationsWith Lucia Specia

From OpenAlex, as of 21 October 2026.

  1. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes University of Haifa. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  2. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes University of Haifa. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  3. Universities keep AI researchers for a median of 6 years, compared with 2 years at frontier labsIncludes Technion. Across 15,811 dated work stays (6,529 people), median role tenure runs from 6 years at universities to 2 years at frontier labs. We compare all five organization types, starting decades from the 1970s to the 2020s, and the organizations that keep people longest.
  4. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Technion. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Abstract Machine for Typed Feature Structures arxiv.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. Shuly Wintner en.wikipedia.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. Hebrew computational linguistics: Past and Future cris.haifa.ac.il. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. Areas, chairs, and area submissions aclweb.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. Shared Lexical Items as Triggers of Code Switching aclanthology.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  6. Knesset-DictaBERT: A Hebrew Language Model for Parliamentary Proceedings arxiv.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  7. The Knesset corpus: an annotated corpus of Hebrew parliamentary proceedings cris.haifa.ac.il. Checked 20 October 2026.
  8. Unveiling Affective Polarization Trends in Parliamentary Proceedings arxiv.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  9. Shuly Wintner - University of Haifa cris.haifa.ac.il. Checked 20 October 2026.
  10. Shuly Wintner shuly.cs.haifa.ac.il. Checked 20 October 2026.