Publications

2026

  • LREC 2026
    Automatic Segmentation of Classical Tibetan Texts into Autochthonous and Allochthonous Regions
    Guy Bilitski, Lev Shechter, Sonam Jamtsho, Nir Marciano, Nicola Bajetta, Rebecca Sunden, Omri Drori, Kai Golan Hashiloni, Orr Zwebner, Asaf Shina, Orna Almogi, Dorji Wangchuk, Kfir Bar
    Paper

2025

  • ICLR 2025
    Preference Tree Optimization: Enhancing Goal-Oriented Dialogue with Look-Ahead Simulations, Scaling Self-Improving Foundation Models without Human Supervision
    Lior Baruch, Moshe Butman, Kfir Bar, Doron Friedman
    Paper
  • EMNLP 2025
    Easy as PIE? Identifying Multi-Word Expressions with LLMs
    Kai Golan Hashiloni, Ofri Hefetz, Kfir Bar
    PaperCode
  • EMNLP 2025 (Findings)
    Layer Duplication in LLMs
    Neo Eyal, Nachum Dershowitz, Kfir Bar
    Paper
  • IJCNLP-AACL 2025
    DharmaBench: Evaluating Language Models on Buddhist Texts in Sanskrit and Tibetan
    Kai Golan Hashiloni, Shay Cohen, Asaf Shina, Jingyi Yang, Orr Meir Zwebner, Nicola Bajetta, Guy Bilitski, Rebecca Sundén, Guy Maduel, Ryan Conlon, Ari Barzilai, Daniel Mass, Shanshan Jia, Aviv Naaman, Sonam Choden, Sonam Jamtsho, Yadi Qu, Harunaga Isaacson, Dorji Wangchuk, Shai Fine, Orna Almogi, Kfir Bar
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  • IJCNLP-AACL 2025
    Not Just a Piece of Cake: Cross-Lingual Fine-Tuning for Idiom Identification
    Ofri Hefetz, Kai Golan Hashiloni, Alon Mannor, Kfir Bar
    PaperCode
  • IJCNLP-AACL 2025
    Large Temporal Models: Unlocking Temporal Understanding in LLMs for Temporal Relation Classification
    Omri Homburger, Kfir Bar
    Paper
  • IJCNLP-AACL 2025
    Decode Like a Clinician: Enhancing LLM Fine-Tuning with Temporal Structured Data Representation
    Daniel Fadlon, David Dov, Aviya Bennett, Daphna Heller-Miron, Gad Levy, Kfir Bar, Ahuva Weiss-Meilik
    Paper
  • INLG 2025
    Can LLMs Help Encoder Models Maintain Both High Accuracy and Consistency in Temporal Relation Classification?
    Adiel Meir, Kfir Bar
    Paper
  • npj Mental Health Research 2025 Outstanding Paper
    The impact of fine-tuning LLMs on the quality of automated therapy assessed by digital patients
    Stav Yosef, Moreah Zisquit, Ben Cohen, Anat Brunstein Klomek, Kfir Bar, Doron Friedman
    Paper
  • IJCAI-LLM-Health 2025 (Workshop)
    Building Patient Journeys in Hebrew: A Language Model for Clinical Timeline Extraction
    Kai Golan Hashiloni, Brenda Kasabe Nokai, Michal Shevach, Esthy Shemesh, Ronit Bartin, Anna Bergrin, Liran Harel, Nachum Dershowitz, Liat Nadai Arad, Kfir Bar
    Paper
  • CLPsych 2025 (Proceedings, Editors)
    Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology
    Ayah Zirikly, Andrew Yates, Bart Desmet, Molly Ireland, Steven Bedrick, Sean MacAvaney, Kfir Bar, Yaakov Ophir
    Proceedings

2024

  • EACL 2024 (Findings)
    Code-Switching and Back-Transliteration Using a Bilingual Model
    Daniel Mitelman, Nachum Dershowitz, Kfir Bar
    Paper
  • LREC-COLING 2024
    JRC-Names-Retrieval: A Standardized Benchmark for Name Search
    Philip Blair, Kfir Bar
    Paper
  • LREC-COLING 2024
    Motivational Interviewing Transcripts Annotated with Global Scores
    Ben Cohen, Moreah Zisquit, Stav Yosef, Doron Friedman, Kfir Bar
    Paper
  • LREC-COLING 2024
    DiaSet: An Annotated Dataset of Arabic Conversations
    Abraham Israeli, Aviv Naaman, Guy Maduel, Rawaa Makhoul, Dana Qaraeen, Amir Ejmail, Dina Lisnanskey, Julian Jubran, Shai Fine, Kfir Bar
    Paper
  • CLPsych 2024
    Assessing motivational interviewing sessions with AI-generated patient simulations
    Stav Yosef, Moreah Zisquit, Ben Cohen, Anat Klomek Brunstein, Kfir Bar, Doron Friedman
    Paper
  • FuturED 2024 (Workshop)
    DEGREE²: Efficient Extraction of Multiple Events Using Language Models
    Philip Blair, Kfir Bar
    Paper
  • Nature Schizophrenia 2024
    The contribution of prosody to machine classification of schizophrenia
    Tomer Ben Moshe, Ido Ziv, Nachum Dershowitz, Kfir Bar
    Paper
  • The Breast 2024
    The impact of extensive intraductal component (EIC) on the genomic risk of recurrence in early hormone receptor positive breast cancer
    Yael Bar, Kfir Bar, Didi Feldman, Judith Ben-Dror, Meishar Shahoha, Shir Lerner, Shlomit Strulov Shachar, Ahuva Weiss-Meilik, Nachum Dershowitz, Ido Wolf, Amir Sonnenblick
    Paper
  • Harefuah 2024
    Novel Technologies and Future Trends in Translational Research in Oncology (Hebrew)
    Hagai Ligumsky, Yael Bar, Ido Wolf, Kfir Bar
    Paper
  • arXiv 2024
    Training a Bilingual Language Model by Mapping Tokens onto a Shared Character Space
    Aviad Rom, Kfir Bar
    Paper
  • CLPsych 2024 (Proceedings, Editors)
    Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology
    Andrew Yates, Bart Desmet, Emily Prud'hommeaux, Ayah Zirikly, Steven Bedrick, Sean MacAvaney, Kfir Bar, Molly Ireland, Yaakov Ophir
    Proceedings

2023 and Earlier

For a complete list of earlier publications, visit Kfir's Google Scholar.