A Dataset for Metaphor Detection in Early Medieval Hebrew Poetry

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17371v1
• Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 10:09:40 GMT
• Title: A Dataset for Metaphor Detection in Early Medieval Hebrew Poetry
• Authors: Michael Toker, Oren Mishali, Ophir M\"unz-Manor, Benny Kimelfeld, Yonatan Belinkov
• Abstract summary: Poetry is prominent in late antique and medieval Hebrew texts. Distinguishing figurative and literal language use is a major task for scholars of the Humanities. This paper presents a new, challenging dataset of late antique and medieval Hebrew poetry with expert annotations of metaphor.
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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 haracteristics 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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