Curriculum Vitae Yoav Goldberg Nov. 2006
Contact Details
Email(s): yoavg@cs.bgu.ac.il yoav.goldberg@gmail.com
Homepage: http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~yoavg
Mailing Address (personal): Yoav Goldberg, Hovevey Zion 13 st., Herzlia
Israel, 46455
Mailing Address (university): Yoav Goldberg, Department of Computer Science
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
P.O.B 653 Be'er Sheva 84105, Israel
Education
Current MSc in Computer Science (NLP), Computer Science department
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Thesis advisor: Dr. Michael Elhadad
Thesis title: Using an np-coordination oracle to improve parsing
BSc in Computer Science, Computer Science department
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Scientific Interests
Natural Language Processing (Hebrew, Chunking, Coordination, Corpus Based Approaches, IR, Lexicons)
Machine Learning
Smart User Interfaces
Programming Languages Theory
Computer Security
Teaching
Current System Programming TA Ben-Gurion University
2006 Object Oreiented Software Design TA Ben-Gurion University
2006 Compiler Construction Grader Ben-Gurion University
Publications:
Yoav Goldberg, Meni Adler, Michael Elhadad
Noun Phrase Chunking in Hebrew – Influence of Lexical and Morphological Features
Proceedings of COLING/ACL 2006
Yair Neuman, Liran Elihay, Meni Adler, Yoav Goldberg, and Amir Viner
Strategic Intelligence Analysis: From Information Processing to Meaning-Making,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Proceedings of ISI-2006
Yael Netzer , Ofer Biller , Michael Elhadad , Yoav Goldberg
Proceedings of ISAAC 2006
Grants and Awards
ACL grant for participation in ACL/HCSNet advanced program in NLP, Melbourne, Australia, July 2006
Relevant Past Projects
Hebrew Dialect of the Scheme Programming Language (joint work with Dr. Mayer Goldberg)
Design and Implementation of a Blissymbolics lexicon software (part of a PhD thesis by Yael Netzer). Blissymbolics is a symbol based Augmentative Communication language. The lexicon (and the special queries it provides) is used for building intelligent communication boards for Bliss users.
Employment
current:
Research assistant / Programmer, The Laboratory for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symbolic Process, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
2005-2004:
Consultant, Picscout inc., Israel.
My main role there was the design and creation of a heavy load web crawler, which can handle dynamic web pages and flash content.
I also advised them on many internet / security related issues.
2005-2002:
Consultant, IDF Intel. Corp.
1999-2002:
Military service in the IDF Intel. Corp, technology unit.
I worked as a progmmer and an analyst on various teams and projects.
During my last year I was a team-leader of 5 people.
Technical Skills
Programming Languages: C#, Java, Python, Perl, Scheme, 8086-Assembly, C.
Various "web" languages: Javascript, CSS, DHTML, PHP etc, at a very deep level.
Expertise in computer security, esp. of web-based applications and web related technologies.
Languages
Hebrew native
English fluent
References
Will be given upon request
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