Automatic Thesaurus Construction for Modern Hebrew

A Thesaurus for Biblical Hebrew

We built 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 base…

Nakdan: Professional Hebrew Diacritizer

We present a system for automatic diacritization of Hebrew text. The system combines modern neural models with carefully curated declarative linguistic knowledge and comprehensive manually constructed tables and dictiona…

Towards Automatic Thesaurus Construction and Enrichment.

Thesaurus construction with minimum human efforts often relies on automatic methods to discover terms and their relations. Hence, the quality of a thesaurus heavily depends on the chosen methodologies for: (i) building i…

Semi-automatic Construction of Cross-period Thesaurus

HeSum: a Novel Dataset for Abstractive Text Summarization in Hebrew

While large language models (LLMs) excel in various natural language tasks in English, their performance in lower-resourced languages like Hebrew, especially for generative tasks such as abstractive summarization, remain…