A Novel Challenge Set for Hebrew Morphological Disambiguation and Diacritics Restoration

no code implementations • Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020 • Avi Shmidman, Joshua Guedalia, Shaltiel Shmidman, Moshe Koppel, Reut Tsarfaty

One of the primary tasks of morphological parsers is the disambiguation of homographs.

Morphological Disambiguation

Nakdan: Professional Hebrew Diacritizer

no code implementations • ACL 2020 • Avi Shmidman, Shaltiel Shmidman, Moshe Koppel, Yoav Goldberg

We present a system for automatic diacritization of Hebrew text.

Studying the History of the Arabic Language: Language Technology and a Large-Scale Historical Corpus

1 code implementation • 11 Sep 2018 • Yonatan Belinkov, Alexander Magidow, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Avi Shmidman, Maxim Romanov

Arabic is a widely-spoken language with a long and rich history, but existing corpora and language technology focus mostly on modern Arabic and its varieties.

Shamela: A Large-Scale Historical Arabic Corpus

no code implementations • WS 2016 • Yonatan Belinkov, Alexander Magidow, Maxim Romanov, Avi Shmidman, Moshe Koppel

Arabic is a widely-spoken language with a rich and long history spanning more than fourteen centuries.

Identification of Parallel Passages Across a Large Hebrew/Aramaic Corpus

no code implementations • 28 Feb 2016 • Avi Shmidman, Moshe Koppel, Ely Porat

We propose a method for efficiently finding all parallel passages in a large corpus, even if the passages are not quite identical due to rephrasing and orthographic variation.