Dr. Omri Abend

Omri Abend

Dr. Omri Abend

Departments of Computer Science and Cognitive Science, Edmond J. Safra Campus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

Dr. Omri Abend's fields of research are Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. Specifically, he conduct research on semantic (meaning) representation from a computational perspective. Omri's research is tightly linked to statistical learning, language technology, such as machine translation and information extraction, and to the computational modeling of child language acquisition.
Omri was a research associate in the University of Edinburgh, working with Mark Steedman. He earned his PhD from the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, supervised by Ari Rappoport.