A Dataset for Metaphor Detection in Early Medieval Hebrew Poetry

Michael Toker; Oren Mishali; Ophir Münz-Manor; Benny Kimelfeld; Yonatan Belinkov

A Dataset for Metaphor Detection in Early Medieval Hebrew Poetry

Michael Toker, Oren Mishali, Ophir Münz-Manor, Benny Kimelfeld, Yonatan Belinkov

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference
Editors	Yvette Graham, Matthew Purver, Matthew Purver
Pages	443-453
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9798891760899
State	Published - 2024
Event	18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2024 - St. Julian�s, Malta Duration: 17 Mar 2024 → 22 Mar 2024

Publication series

Name	EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference
Volume	2

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Conference	18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2024
Country/Territory	Malta
City	St. Julian�s
Period	17/03/24 → 22/03/24

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Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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Toker, M., Mishali, O., Münz-Manor, O., Kimelfeld, B., & Belinkov, Y. (2024). A Dataset for Metaphor Detection in Early Medieval Hebrew Poetry. In Y. Graham, M. Purver, & M. Purver (Eds.), EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (pp. 443-453). (EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference; Vol. 2).

Toker, Michael ; Mishali, Oren ; Münz-Manor, Ophir et al. / A Dataset for Metaphor Detection in Early Medieval Hebrew Poetry. EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference. editor / Yvette Graham ; Matthew Purver ; Matthew Purver. 2024. pp. 443-453 (EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference).

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Toker, M, Mishali, O, Münz-Manor, O, Kimelfeld, B & Belinkov, Y 2024, A Dataset for Metaphor Detection in Early Medieval Hebrew Poetry. in Y Graham, M Purver & M Purver (eds), EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference. EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference, vol. 2, pp. 443-453, 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2024, St. Julian�s, Malta, 17/03/24.

A Dataset for Metaphor Detection in Early Medieval Hebrew Poetry. / Toker, Michael; Mishali, Oren; Münz-Manor, Ophir et al.
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