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NLP and Digital Humanities: Hebrew and other Languages

We are excited to invite you to a specialized workshop on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Digital Humanities (DH), with a particular focus on Hebrew, pre-modern Hebrew, and other pre-modern languages. This event will take place at the Technion and aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from these interdisciplinary fields to share insights, tools, and methodologies.

Time & Location

  • Monday 8/7/24, 9:30-15:45.
  • Technion, Computer Science Faculty (Taub Building), Room 337.

Schedule

Please confirm your attendance by completing the registration form.

  • 9:30 – 10:15 Gathering and Refreshments
  • 10:15 – 11:00 Opening Lecture
    • Explainability: On the Dynamics of Computer Scientists and Humanities Scholars (Moshe Lavee, eLijah-Lab, the University of Haifa)
  • 11:00 -12:00 Corpora/Datasets
    • Automated Parsing and Data Preparation of the Hittite (1400 – 1180 BCE) Corpus for Machine Learning Research (Emma Yavasan, Digital Pasts Lab, Ariel University)
    • A Dataset for Metaphor Detection in Early Medieval Hebrew Poetry (Michael Toker, Technion)
    • ivrit.ai – Speech corpus of spoken Hebrew (Yanir Marmor, Weizmann Institute of Science)
  • 12:00-13:00 Lunch and Networking
  • 13:00 – 14:20 Computational Methods for Medieval Languages
    • Dense Retrieval for Enhanced Search in the Babylonian Talmud
      (Oren Mishali, Technion)
    • The Aramaic Clitic Dalet in Post-Talmudic Rabbinic Literature: A Computational Analysis (Rachel Tal, Bar Ilan University and Dicta)
    • Code-Switching and Back-Transliteration Using a Bilingual Model (Daniel Weisberg Mitelman, Reichman University)
    • Approximating Lost Masoretic Notes in the Aleppo Codex and others: An Information Theory and Probabilistic Approach (Ariel Vishne, Digital Humanities Center, Hebrew University)
  • 14:20-14:45 Coffee Break
  • 14:45 – 15:45 DH/NLP Applications
    • Crime linkage based on textual Hebrew police reports utilizing behavioral patterns‏ (Adir Solomon, University of Haifa)
    • Use of digital humanities to advance citizen science/curation (Dr. Alan J, Wecker, University of Haifa)
    • Insights into code-switching (Hebrew-Russian) based on archival documents, for 1920-1930s Hebrew in the Habima theatre (Aynat Rubinstein and Anna Kostina, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  • 15:45 Closing, Concluding Remarks

How to Register

Please confirm your attendance by completing the registration form. We look forward to your participation in what promises to be a stimulating and enriching workshop. We welcome presentations of both completed and ongoing work. Presentations can be delivered in either Hebrew or English.

Best regards,

Workshop Organizers:

  • Yonatan Belinkov, Technion
  • Benny Kimelfeld, Technion
  • Ophir Münz-Manor, Open University
  • Michael Toker, Technion
  • Oren Mishali, Technion (contact: omishali@cs.technion.ac.il)

The workshop is organized with support from the Israeli Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology.