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 |
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| 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 |
| Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
| 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 |
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| Volume | 2 |
Conference
| Conference | 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2024 |
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| Country/Territory | Malta |
| City | St. Julian�s |
| Period | 17/03/24 → 22/03/24 |
Bibliographical note
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