🧾 Publications

2026

• EMNLP 2026
  IdioLink: Retrieving Meaning Beyond Words Across Idiomatic and Literal Expressions
  Kai Golan Hashiloni, Daniel Fadlon, Lior Livyatan, Ofri Hefetz, Jiahuan Pei, and Kfir Bar
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• EMNLP 2026 Findings
  MoraLink: Bridging Morals and Narrative Fables for Retrieval
  Lior Livyatan, Kai Golan Hashiloni, Asif Amar, Roei Rahamim, and Kfir Bar
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• EMNLP 2026
  IdioSteer: Controlling Figurative-vs-Literal Interpretation via Residual-Stream Activation Steering
  Bar Cohen, Kai Golan Hashiloni, and Kfir Bar
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• INLG 2026
  Do We Really Need So Many Tokens? The Performance-Efficiency Trade-off in Tibetan and Sanskrit
  Orr Meir Zwebner, Kai Golan Hashiloni, Guy Bilitski, Oded Hellman, Nir Marciano, Erez Yousfan, Shai Fine, and Kfir Bar
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• AACL 2026
  MuSe-MI: A Framework for Assessing Multi-Session Motivational Interviewing with AI-Generated Patients
  Topaz Freizeit, Moreah Zisquit, Kai Golan Hashiloni, Chaitze Tavens, Doron Friedman, and Kfir Bar
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• ACL 2026 Findings
  ID10M-JAM: Stress-Testing Idiom Identification Under Challenging Context
  Kai Golan Hashiloni, Lior Livyatan, Ofri Hefetz, Alon Mannor, Bar Cohen, and Kfir Bar
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• LREC 2026
  Automatic Segmentation of Classical Tibetan Texts into Autochthonous and Allochthonous Regions
  Guy Bilitski, Lev Shechter, Sonam Jamtsho, Nir Marciano, Nicola Bajetta, Rebecca Sundén, Omri Drori, Kai Golan Hashiloni, Orr Zwebner, Asaf Shina, Orna Almogi, Dorji Wangchuk, Kfir Bar
  Paper

2025

• IJCNLP-AACL 2025
  Not Just a Piece of Cake: Cross-Lingual Fine-Tuning for Idiom Identification
  Ofri Hefetz, Kai Golan Hashiloni, Alon Mannor, and Kfir Bar
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• IJCNLP-AACL 2025
  DharmaBench: Evaluating Language Models on Buddhist Texts in Sanskrit and Tibetan
  Kai Golan Hashiloni, Shay Cohen, Asaf Shina, Jingyi Yang, Orr Meir Zwebner, Nicola Bajetta, Guy Bilitski, Rebecca Sundén, Guy Maduel, Ryan Conlon, Ari Barzilai, Daniel Mass, Shanshan Jia, Aviv Naaman, Sonam Choden, Sonam Jamtsho, Yadi Qu, Harunaga Isaacson, Dorji Wangchuk, Shai Fine, Orna Almogi, and Kfir Bar
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• EMNLP 2025
  Easy as PIE? Identifying Multi-Word Expressions with LLMs
  Kai Golan Hashiloni, Ofri Hefetz, and Kfir Bar
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• IJCAI 2025 (Workshop)
  Building Patient Journeys in Hebrew: A Language Model for Clinical Timeline Extraction
  Kai Golan Hashiloni, Brenda Kasabe Nokai, Michal Shevach, Esthy Shemesh, Ronit Bartin, Anna Bergrin, Liran Harel, Nachum Dershowitz, Liat Nadai Arad, Kfir Bar
  Paper

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