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Title: | A thesaurus for Biblical Hebrew |
Authors: | Waxman, Joshua Azar, Miriam Pahmer, Aliza 0000-0002-8617-2254 |
Keywords: | Corpus (Creation, Annotation, etc.) Corpus (Creation, Annotation, etc.) Lexicon Lexical Database Phonetic Databases Phonology Tools Systems Applications graph dictionary semantic similarity distributional similarity, Word2Vec |
Issue Date: | 11-May-2020 |
Publisher: | c European Language Resources Association (ELRA), |
Citation: | Azar, T., Pahmer, A., Waxman, J. (2020). A thesaurus for Biblical Hebrew. Proceedings of 1st Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages. 68-73. www.lrec-conf.org/ proceedings/lrec2020/workshops/LT4HALA/pdf/2020.lt4hala- 1.10.pdf |
Series/Report no.: | Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2020),;Marseille, 11–16 May 2020 |
Abstract: | Abstract We build a thesaurus for Biblical Hebrew, with connections between roots based on phonetic, semantic, and distributional similarity. To this end, we apply established algorithms to find connections between headwords based on existing lexicons and other digital resources. For semantic similarity, we utilize the cosine-similarity of tf-idf vectors of English gloss text of Hebrew headwords from Ernest Klein’s A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English as well as from Brown-Driver-Brigg’s Hebrew Lexicon. For phonetic similarity, we digitize part of Matityahu Clark’s Etymological Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew, grouping Hebrew roots into phonemic classes, and establish phonetic relationships between headwords in Klein’s Dictionary. For distributional similarity, we consider the cosine similarity of PPMI vectors of Hebrew roots and also, in a somewhat novel approach, apply Word2Vec to a Biblical corpus reduced to its lexemes. The resulting resource is helpful to those trying to understand Biblical Hebrew, and also stands as a good basis for programs trying to process the Biblical text. |
Description: | Scholarly article / Open access |
URI: | https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-Thesaurus-for-Biblical-Hebrew-Azar-Pahmer/2b63a0838474303baa293280e2bf4812d900a076 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/9942 |
Appears in Collections: | Stern College for Women -- Faculty Publications |
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