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Language, Culture, Computation: Computing - Theory and Technology

Essays Dedicated to Yaacov Choueka on the Occasion of His 75 Birthday, Part I

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Editors:
  1. Nachum Dershowitz

    1. School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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  2. Ephraim Nissan

    1. Department of Computing, University of London, Goldsmiths College, UK

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  • Dedicated to the scientist, whose research fifty years ago was seminal for full-text information retrieval (which lay users at present know especially from such search engines as Google)
  • Contains papers written by well-known authors
  • Covers the areas of research in which Yaacov has made major contributions

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 8001)

Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. The Jubilarian: Yaacov and His Oeuvre

    1. From the Alleys of Cairo to the Internet Highways An Intellectual Journey: Languages, Information and Intelligence

      • Yaacov Choueka
      Pages 1-18

    2. Yaacov Choueka: A Profile

      • Nachum Dershowitz, Ephraim Nissan
      Pages 19-36

    3. Integrating and Rejuvenating Old and New Gems

      • Aviezri S. Fraenkel
      Pages 37-49

  3. Theory of Computation

    1. Topological Complexity of Context-Free ω-Languages: A Survey

      • Olivier Finkel
      Pages 50-77

    2. From Löwenheim to PSL and SVA

      • Moshe Y. Vardi
      Pages 78-102

    3. Reactivity and Grammars: An Exploration

      • Howard Barringer, David Rydeheard, Dov Gabbay
      Pages 103-155

    4. Modal Scenarios as Automata

      • David Harel, Amir Kantor
      Pages 156-167

    5. Immunity against Local Influence

      • D. Peleg
      Pages 168-179

    6. The Development of the Strategic Behavior of Peer Designed Agents

      • Efrat Manistersky, Raz Lin, Sarit Kraus
      Pages 180-196

    7. A New Approach to Alphabet Extension for Improving Static Compression Schemes

      • Shmuel T. Klein
      Pages 197-212

    8. Four Apt Elementary Examples of Recursion

      • Edward M. Reingold
      Pages 213-224

  5. Information Retrieval

    1. Hypertext Searching - A Survey

      • Amihood Amir, Moshe Lewenstein, Noa Lewenstein
      Pages 364-381

    2. Search Engines and Hebrew - Revisited

      • Judit Bar-Ilan
      Pages 382-394

    3. Matching with a Hierarchical Ontology

      • Yaacov Choueka, Nachum Dershowitz, Liad Tal
      Pages 395-398

    4. Analyzing Product Comparisons on Discussion Boards

      • Ronen Feldman, Moshe Fresko, Jacob Goldenberg, Oded Netzer, Lyle Ungar
      Pages 399-408

    5. Benchmarking Applied Semantic Inference: The PASCAL Recognising Textual Entailment Challenges

      • Roy Bar-Haim, Ido Dagan, Idan Szpektor
      Pages 409-424
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About this book

This Festschrift volume is published in Honor of Yaacov Choueka on the occasion of this 75th birthday. The present three-volumes liber amicorum, several years in gestation, honours this outstanding Israeli computer scientist and is dedicated to him and to his scientific endeavours. Yaacov's research has had a major impact not only within the walls of academia, but also in the daily life of lay users of such technology that originated from his research. An especially amazing aspect of the temporal span of his scholarly work is that half a century after his influential research from the early 1960s, a project in which he is currently involved is proving to be a sensation, as will become apparent from what follows. Yaacov Choueka began his research career in the theory of computer science, dealing with basic questions regarding the relation between mathematical logic and automata theory. From formal languages, Yaacov moved to natural languages. He was a founder of natural-language processing in Israel, developing numerous tools for Hebrew. He is best known for his primary role, together with Aviezri Fraenkel, in the development of the Responsa Project, one of the earliest fulltext retrieval systems in the world. More recently, he has headed the Friedberg Genizah Project, which is bringing the treasures of the Cairo Genizah into the Digital Age. This first part of the three-volume set covers a range of topics in computer science. The papers are grouped in topical sections on: the jubilaris: Yaacov and his oeuvre; theory of computation; science computing and tools for engineering; information retrieval.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Nachum Dershowitz

  • Department of Computing, University of London, Goldsmiths College, UK

    Ephraim Nissan

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