Prof. Tirosh-Becker’s research focuses on the contacts between Arabic and Hebrew, applying a broad range of research methodologies: linguistic fieldwork, philology, corpus linguistics, and recently digital humanities (including Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing (NPL)).

Judeo-Arabic

• North African Judeo-Arabic
• Judeo-Arabic translations of the Bible and of post-biblical literature
• Judeo-Arabic journalism in North Africa

Hebrew

• Rabbinic Hebrew in Karaite writings
• The contact between Hebrew and Arabic in the Middle Ages
• Hebrew in Algeria in the 19th-20th centuries

 Digital Humanities applied to Judeo-Arabic

• Corpus linguistics - creating the TAJA and NAJA corpora for written Algerian Judeo-Arabic
• Deep Learning - Developing Parts of Speech (POS) and Morphology taggers for written Algerian Judeo-Arabic using Natural Language Processing (NPL) algorithms (in collaboration with Dr. Yonatan Belinkov, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology).