A Dataset for Metaphor Detection in Early Medieval Hebrew Poetry

Michael Toker, Oren Mishali, Ophir Münz-Manor, Benny Kimelfeld, Yonatan Belinkov
Technion
EACL 2024
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Abstract

There is a large volume of late antique and medieval Hebrew texts. They represent a crucial linguistic and cultural bridge between Biblical and modern Hebrew. Poetry is prominent in these texts and one of its main characteristics is the frequent use of metaphor. Distinguishing figurative and literal language use is a major task for scholars of the Humanities, especially in the fields of literature, linguistics, and hermeneutics. This paper presents a new, challenging dataset of late antique and medieval Hebrew poetry with expert annotations of metaphor, as well as some baseline results, which we hope will facilitate further research in this area.

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BibTeX


        @article{toker2024dataset,
          title={A Dataset for Metaphor Detection in Early Medieval Hebrew Poetry},
          author={Toker, Michael and Mishali, Oren and M{\"u}nz-Manor, Ophir and Kimelfeld, Benny and Belinkov, Yonatan},
          journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.17371},
          year={2024}
        }