Research Group

SLAB

We develop NLP models for real-world texts and interdisciplinary research questions across domains and languages. We welcome collaboration; please reach out if interested.

ACL, Vienna, 2025

People

Current members

Ph.D.

Uri Berger

Language Acquisition, specifically in realistic settings- e.g. using interaction or multi-modality.
Coadvised with Omri Abend and Lea Frermann.

Eliya Habba

NLP in legal domain.
Coadvised with Renana Keydar.

Itay Itzhak

Language models interpretability, biases and evaluation.
Coadvised with Yonatan Belinkov.

Gili Lior

Exploring aspects at the intersection of human cognition and natural language processing.

M.Sc.

Adi Gabay

Epistemic and logical reasoning in LLMs.
Coadvised with Liat Peterfreund.

Hoshen Lugasi

Timing and social intelligence in LLM agents.

Ido Oron

Musical Zeitgeist detection in LLM embeddings.
Coadvised with Yoel Greenberg.

Shahar Spencer

Explainable AI for Ancient Language Processing.
Coadvised with Shai Gordin.

Alumni

Ph.D.: Yonatan Bitton (2023)
M.Sc.: Orian Dabod (2026), Shahar Levy (2026), Niv Eckhaus (2025), Noam Dahan (2025), Saifun Naveh (2024), Eliya Habba (2024), Yarden Yagil (2023), Bar Eluz (2022), Dan Malkin (2022), Gili Lior (2022), Bar Tamir (2022), Eran Nussinovitch (2022), Sapir Weissbuch (2022), Koren Lazar (2021)
B.Sc.: Daniel Nisnevich (2025), Liron Naccache (2024), Shahar Spencer (2023), Niv Eckhaus (2023), Mohr Wenger (2021), Tom Kalir (2021), Shahar Levy (2021)
Visitors: Tomasz Limisiewicz (2022)