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Main areas of research:
Medieval Hebrew poetry; Textual Development of Jewish Liturgy; Cairo Genizah Manuscript Studies; The Stylistics of S. Y. Agnon; Digital Humanities; Natural Language Processing Algorithms for Hebrew
Consultant member of the Hebrew Language Academy since 2017
Education/Academic qualification
PhD
Oct 2005 → Jun 2009
Award Date: 30 Jun 2009
PhD, Bar-Ilan University
Oct 2005 → Jun 2009
Award Date: 30 Jun 2009
Master's Degree, Bar-Ilan University
Oct 1998 → Jun 2005
Award Date: 30 Jun 2005
Bachelor
Oct 1991 → Jun 1996
Award Date: 30 Jun 1996
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
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MiDRASH: MiDRASH: Migrations of Textual and Scribal Traditions via Large-Scale Computational Analysis of Medieval Manuscripts in Hebrew Script
Shmidman, A. (PI), Stoekl, D. (PI), Dershowitz, N. (PI) & Olszowy-Schlanger, J. (PI)
1/10/23 → 30/09/29
Project: Research
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Agnon’s Post-1922 Revisions to “ʿOvadyah baʿal mum”
Shmidman, A., 2025, In: Prooftexts - Journal of Jewish Literature History. 41, 2-3, p. 155-188 34 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Splintering Nonconcatenative Languages for Better Tokenization
Gazit, B., Shmidman, S., Shmidman, A. & Pinter, Y., 2025, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025. Che, W., Nabende, J., Shutova, E. & Pilehvar, M. T. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 22405-22417 13 p. (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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מ"ם המניעה במורשתו הספרותית של ש"י עגנון
שמידמן, א., 2025, עיונים בלשון העברית לתקופותיה. כהן, ח. (ed.). ירושלים: האקדמיה ללשון העברית, p. 190-210 21 p. (אסופות ומבואות בלשון).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Computational Methods for the Analysis of Complementizer Variability in Language and Literature: The Case of Hebrew še-and ki
Shmidman, A. & Rubinstein, A., 2024, NLP4DH 2024 - 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities, Proceedings of the Conference. Hamalainen, M., Ohman, E., Miyagawa, S., Alnajjar, K. & Bizzoni, Y. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 294-307 14 p. (NLP4DH 2024 - 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities, Proceedings of the Conference).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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MRL Parsing Without Tears: The Case of Hebrew
Shmidman, S., Shmidman, A., Koppel, M. & Tsarfaty, R., 2024, The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2024. Ku, L.-W., Martins, A. & Srikumar, V. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 4537-4550 14 p. (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
Open Access3 Scopus citations
Datasets
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MiDRASH Automatic Transcriptions of the Cairo Geniza Fragments
Stoekl, D. (Creator), Shmidman, A. (Creator), Dershowitz, N. (Creator), Olszowy-Schlanger, J. (Creator) & et al. (Creator), MiDRASH, ERC-Synergy Project No. 101071829, 25 Nov 2025
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17734472, https://genizahsearch.com/
Dataset
Prizes
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The Professor Michael Bernstein Memorial Award for Excellence in Bible
Shmidman, A. (Recipient), 1996
Prize
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Conference Invited
Shmidman, A. (Invited speaker)
5 Mar 2019 → 7 Mar 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Conference Invited
Shmidman, A. (Invited speaker)
13 Feb 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Conference Invited
Shmidman, A. (Invited speaker)
13 Jun 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Israel Seminar of Computational Linguistics (ISCOL)
Shmidman, A. (Participation - Conference participant)
18 Oct 2018Activity: Participating in or organizing an event › Organizing a conference, workshop, ...
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Press/Media
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Press Coverage of Genizah Transcriptions Dataset Release (MiDRASH ERC-Synergy Project)
2/12/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media
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Press Coverage of Avi Shmidman's 2025 lecture at the Academy of the Hebrew Language
27/03/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media
Thesis
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Epithalamia for the Grace after Meals from the Cairo Genizah
Shmidman, A. (Author), Hazan, E. (Supervisor), 2005Student thesis: Thesis