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Publications | Prof. Ofra Tirosh-Becker

Publications

2024
Ofra Tirosh-Becker. 2024. “Contact Between Semitic And Romance Languages In Judeo Arabic Journals From North Africa”. Carmillim 15 [26 Pages] (In Print).
Ofra Tirosh-Becker. 2024. “Judeo-Arabic Translations From The Bible To Robinson Crusoe: A Centre Vs. Periphery Perspective”. In A. Hornkohl, M.m. Connolly, E. Coghill, B. Outhwaite, N. Vidro, And J.c.e. Watson (Eds.), Interconnected Traditions: Semitic Languages, Literatures, Cultures. Cambridge, Uk: Open Book Publishers [30 Pages, In Print].
Ofra Tirosh-Becker. 2024. “Linguistic Terms In A Tri-Lingual Dictionary From Algeria (1930)”. Language Studies 20 [17 Pages] (In Print).
2023
Menahem Kahana and Tirosh-Becker, Ofra . 12/2023. “Yeshua Ben Yehuda Contribution To The Study Of The Mekhilta Of Rabbi Shimon Ben Yoḥai And Its Language”. Tarbitz 89(4): 581-647.
Ofra Tirosh-Becker. 2023. “The Corner For Teaching Hebrew In A Tri-Lingual Jewish Journal From Tripoli, Libya.”. In K. Šmid, O. (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald And O. Tirosh-Becker (Eds.), Mizmor Ledavid: Studies In Jewish Languages, Serie Publicaciones De Estudios Sefardíes 19. Madrid: Csic, Pp. 263-286.
Ofra Tirosh-Becker and (editors), Sarah Bunin Benor . 2023. “Journal Of Jewish Languages 11 (1)”. . Publisher's Version
Ofra Tirosh-Becker. 2023. “A Man'S Wisdom Maketh His Face Shine, How Fortunate Were We To Be His Students”. In Joshua Blau – In Memoriam, Ed. Simon Hopkins, Jerusalem: The Israel Academy Of Sciences And Humanities, 2023, Pp. 38-44. Abstract

 

  • עפרה תירוש-בקר, " 'חכמת אדם תאיר פניו', אשרינו שזכינו להיות מתלמידיו", לזכרו של יהושע בלאו, בעריכת סימון הופקינס, ירושלים: האקדמיה הלאומית הישראלית למדעים, תשפ"ג, עמ' 44-38.

 

Katja Šmid, Schwarzwald, Ora (Rodrigue) , and Tirosh-Becker, Ofra . 2023. Mizmor Ledavid: Studies In Jewish Languages. Serie Publicaciones De Estudios Sefardíes 19. Madrid: CSIC. [549 pages].
2022
Ofra Tirosh-Becker, Kessler, Michal , Becker, Oren M. , and Belinkov, Yonatan . 12/2022. “Part-Of-Speech And Morphological Tagging Of Algerian Judeo-Arabic”. Northern European Journal Of Language Technology (Nejlt), 8(1):109-129. Abstract
Most linguistic studies of Judeo-Arabic, the ensemble of dialects spoken and written by Jews in Arab lands, are qualitative in nature and rely on laborious manual annotation work, and are therefore limited in scale. In this work, we develop automatic methods for morpho-syntactic tagging of Algerian Judeo-Arabic texts published by Algerian Jews in the 19th–20th centuries, based on a linguistically tagged corpus. First, we describe our semi-automatic approach for preprocessing these texts. Then, we experiment with both an off-the-shelf morphological tagger, several specially designed neural network taggers, and a hybrid human-in-the-loop
approach. Finally, we perform a real-world evaluation of new texts that were never tagged before in comparison with human expert annotators. Our experimental results demonstrate that these methods can dramatically speed up and improve the linguistic research pipeline, enabling linguists to study these dialects on a much greater scale.
Tirosh-Becker, Kessler, Becker and Belinkov. 2022. POS and Morphological Tagging of Algerian JA. NEJLT, 8(1).pdf
Ofra Tirosh-Becker and Becker, Oren M. . 11/2022. “Taja Corpus: Linguistically Tagged Written Algerian Judeo-Arabic Corpus”. Journal Of Jewish Languages 10 (1): 24-53.
Tirosh-Becker & Becker 2022, TAJA Corpus, JJL 10 (1): 24-53.pdf
Ofra Tirosh-Becker. 9/2022. “The Plural Morpheme In Rabbinic Hebrew According To Karaite Manuscripts”. Leshonenu 84: 353-362 (In Hebrew). Abstract

ע' תירוש-בקר, "צורן סיומת הרבים בלשון חז"ל על פי כתבי יד קראיים", לשוננו פד (תשפ"ב), עמ' 362-353.

Tirosh-Becker 2022, Leshonenu 84, 353-362.
Ofra Tirosh-Becker. 8/2022. “Algerian Judeo-Arabic”. In Encyclopedia Of Jews In The Islamic World, N. A. Stillman (Ed.). Leiden: Brill (Online). Abstract

https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopedia-of-jews-in-the-islamic-world/algerian-judeo-arabic-COM_000873?s.num=0&s.f.s2_parent=s.f.book.encyclopedia-of-jews-in-the-islamic-world&s.q=Algerian+judeo+arabic

 

Tirosh-Becker, Algerian Judeo Arabic, EJIW 2022.pdf
Ofra Tirosh-Becker and (editors), Sarah Bunin Benor . 2022. “Journal Of Jewish Languages 10 (1)”. . Publisher's Version
Ofra Tirosh-Becker and (editors), Sarah Bunin Benor . 2022. “Journal Of Jewish Studies 10 (2): Contemporary Haredi Yiddish Worldwide”. . Publisher's Version

366 + xxi + 8 pages. (in Hebrew)

ע' תירוש-בקר וד' בוניס, עורכים, מסורות: מחקרים במסורות הלשון ובלשונות היהודים, כרך כ"א-כ"ב, ח+366+ xxi עמודים, תשפ"ב (2022).

Sarah Bunin Benor Ofra and Tirosh-Becker. 2022. “In Memoriam, Professor Bernard Dov Spolsky, Zl (1932 2022)”. Journal Of Jewish Languages 10(2): 153–155.
Benor & Tirosh-Becker, In memoriam prof. Bernard Spolsky.pdf
O. Tirosh-Becker. 2022. “Reflection Of Rabbinic Literature In Karaite Polemics On The Sighting Of The New Moon”. In The Golden Age Of Karaism: A Hebrew Anthology Of Karaite Literature From The Ninth To The Twelfth Centuries. Y. Erder And M. Polliack (Eds.). Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University and Carmel, pp. 150-161. (Hebrew). Abstract
  1. ע' תירוש-בקר, "השתקפות ספרות חז"ל בדיוני הקראים בנושא ראיית הירח ולוח השנה", תור הזהב הקראי: אנתולוגיה של היצירה הקראית במאות התשיעית עד השתים-עשרה, עורכים י' ארדר ומ' פוליאק, תל אביב 2022, שער ג: ההלכה הקראית, חלק ד', עמ' 161-150.
Ofra Tirosh-Becker. 2022. “Salmon Ben Yeruḥam'S Polemic With Saadia Gaon On The Calendar”. In The Golden Age Of Karaism: A Hebrew Anthology Of Karaite Literature From The Ninth To The Twelfth Centuries. Y. Erder And M. Polliack (Eds.). Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University and Carmel, pp. 122-127 (in Hebrew). Abstract

 

  1. ע' תירוש-בקר, "הפולמוס של סלמון בן ירוחם עם סעדיה גאון בעניין לוח השנה", תור הזהב הקראי: אנתולוגיה של היצירה הקראית במאות התשיעית עד השתים-עשרה, עורכים י' ארדר ומ' פוליאק, תל אביב 2022, שער ב: שורשי הפולמוס, חלק ג', עמ' 127-122.

 

2021
Lutz Edzard and (editors), Ofra Tirosh-Becker . 2021. Jewish Languages: Text Specimens, Grammatical, Lexical, And Cultural Sketches. 777 pages. Porta Linguarum Orientalium. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Publishers. Abstract

https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_6912.ahtml

Detailed chapters on 17 Jewish languages (Semitic, Germanic, Romance, Greek, Iranian and Turkic) including grammatical sketches and extensive text specimens.

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