Publications

Kour, George, Samuel Ackerman, Orna Raz, Eitan Farchi, Boaz Carmeli, and Ateret Anaby-Tavor. "Measuring the Measuring Tools: An Automatic Evaluation of Semantic Metrics for Text Corpora." EMNLP, GEM 2022 (2022): 405.

Ackerman, Samuel, Ateret Anaby-Tavor, Eitan Farchi, Esther Goldbraich, George Kour, Ella Ravinovich, Orna Raz, Saritha Route, Marcel Zalmanovici, and Naama Zwerdling. "High-quality Conversational Systems." arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.13043 (2022). (pdf)

Kour, George, et al. "Classifier Data Quality: A Geometric Complexity Based Method for Automated Baseline And Insights Generation." AAAI EDSMLS workshop (2022). (pdf)

Naama Tepper, Esther Goldbraich, Naama Zwerdling, George Kour, Ateret Anaby Tavor, Boaz Carmeli. "Balancing via Generation for Multi-Class Text Classification Improvement". EMNLP findings (2020). (pdf)

Anaby-Tavor, Ateret, Boaz Carmeli, Esther Goldbraich, Amir Kantor, George Kour, Segev Shlomov, Naama Tepper, and Naama Zwerdling. "Not Enough Data? Deep Learning to the Rescue!." AAAI (2020). (pdf). 

Kour, George, and Genela Morris. "Estimating Attentional Set-Shifting Dynamics in Varying Contextual Bandits." BioRxiv (2019): 621300. (pdf)

Jacovi, Alon, Guy Hadash, Einat Kermany, Boaz Carmeli, Ofer Lavi, George Kour, and Jonathan Berant. "Neural network gradient-based learning of black-box function interfaces."  ICLR (2018).  (pdf). 

Guy Hadash, Einat Kermany, Boaz Carmeli, Ofer Lavi, George Kour, and Alon Jacovi. "Estimate and Replace: A Novel Approach to Integrating Deep Neural Networks with Existing Applications." arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.09028 (2018). (pdf)

Kour, George, Shaul Strachan, and Raz Regev. "Estimating Handling time of Software Defects." Third International Conference on Software Engineering, SEC-2017. (pdf)

Keshet, Renato, Alina Maor, and George Kour. "Prediction-Based, Prioritized Market-Share Insight Extraction." Advanced Data Mining and Applications: 12th International Conference, ADMA 2016. (pdf)

Kour, George, and Raid Saabne. "Fast Classification of Handwritten On-line Arabic Characters." Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR), 2014 6th International Conference of. IEEE, 2014. (pdf)

Kour, George, and Raid Saabne. "Real-time Segmentation of On-line Handwritten Arabic Script." Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR), 2014 14th International Conference on. IEEE, 2014. (pdf)

Kour, George. "Real Time Segmentation and Recognition of Online Handwritten Arabic Script". M.Sc. Thesis. Tel-Aviv University, 2014. (pdf)

Guy Hadash, Boaz Carmeli, George Kour; International Business Machines Corp, assignee. Removing unnecessary history from reinforcement learning state.  U.S. Patent 11928556. Issued March 12, 2024. (link)

Tepper, Naama, Esther Goldbraich, Boaz Carmeli, Naama Zwerdling, George Kour, and Ateret Anaby Tavor..International Business Machines Corp, assignee. Dataset balancing via quality-controlled sample generation. U.S. Patent 11797516. Issued October 24, 2023.

George Kour, Guy Hadash, Yftah Ziser, Ofer Lavi, Guy Lev; International Business Machines Corp, assignee. Deep learning testing. U.S. Patent 11790239. Issued October 17, 2023. (link)

Raz, Orna, George Kour, Ramasuri Narayanam, Samuel Solomon Ackerman, and Marcel Zalmanovici. International Business Machines Corp, assignee. Generating data slice rules for data generation. U.S. Patent Application 17/682,635, filed August 31, 2023.

Strachan Shaul, Kour George, Regev Raz, inventors; EntIT Software LLC, assignee. Using machine learning regression to estimate time for completing application lifecycle management work item. U.S. Patent 11315031. Issued April 26, 2022. (link) - (WO2017069743A1)

Amir Kantor, Ateret Anaby Tavor, Boaz Carmeli, Esther Goldbraich, George Kour, Segev Shlomov, Naama Tepper, Naama Zwerdling; International Business Machines Corp, assignee. Language-model-based data augmentation method for textual classification tasks with little data. U.S. Patent 11526667. Issued December 13, 2022. (link)

Einat Kermany, Guy Hadash, George Kour, Ofer Lavi ,Boaz Carmeli; International Business Machines Corp, assignee. Numerical representation in natural language processing techniques. US Patent US10915711B2. Issued 2021 Feb 09. (link)

Strachan Shaul, Kour George, Regev Raz, inventors; Entit Software LLC, assignee. Timing estimations for application lifecycle management work items determined through machine learning. US patent 10310852B2. 2018 Mar 29. (link)

Kour George, Toplian Yaniv, Vinik Alon, inventors; Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP, assignee. Quality prediction. U.S. Patent US20160307133A1. 2016 Oct 20. (link)