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Yaacov Choueka was born in 1936 in Cairo, Egypt to a family of renowned rabbis who had emigrated from Aleppo to Cairo in the early years of the twentieth century. Yaacov’s great grandfather, Hakham Aharon, had been Chief Rabbi of Aleppo, Syria, in the 1870).
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Choueka, Y.: Hipalgut haZurot lefi haOrekh – Ba’ya beBalshanut Statistit (Length-distribution of Words in Modern Hebrew – a Problem in Statistical Linguistics). In: Hebrew Computational Linguistics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, no. 1, pp. 33–34 (1969) (Hebrew)
Choueka, Y., Yeshurun, S.: Prakim beBalshanut Statistit Ivrit (Statistical Aspects of Modern Hebrew Prose). In: Kasher, A., Schild, U. (eds.) Proc. of the 5th National Conf. of the Information Processing Assoc. of Israel (IPA), Jerusalem. The Information Processing Assoc. of Israel (1969)
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Shweka, R., Choueka, Y., Wolf, L., Dershowitz, N.: Veqarev otam Ehad el Ehad”: Zihuy Ktav-yad veZeruf Kit‘ei haGenizah be’Emtsa‘ut Mahshev (Identifying Handwriting and Joining Genizah Fragments by Computer). Ginzei Qedem (Genizah Research Annual) 7, 171–207 (2011)
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Choueka, Y.: Two Conferences on Optical Storage: An Informal Report and Some Reflections, Technical Memorandum TM-ARH-008691, Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ, 16 p. (1987)
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Dershowitz, N., Nissan, E. (2014). Yaacov Choueka: A Profile. In: Dershowitz, N., Nissan, E. (eds) Language, Culture, Computation. Computing - Theory and Technology. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8001. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45321-2_2
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