Expanding the Corpus of Vocalized Hebrew Text: Compiling an Unvocalized Text Corpus and Building an Online Interface for Vocalization Annotation
type: CreativeWork
description: Written modern Hebrew presents a unique challenge for training computational models for language processing because modern Hebrew text often lacks vocalization. The lack of available vocalized Hebrew data can lead to ambiguity in training these models and generally hinders work on natural language processing problems. The goal of this project is to contribute to the collection of vocalized Hebrew text by collecting and preprocessing a large corpus of unvocalized Hebrew text and building an online annotation tool. The annotation tool allows people to upload unvocalized Hebrew text, to annotate by adding Hebrew vocalization, and to download comma-separated values files of vocalized text. This project seeks to enhance the space both by collecting vocalized Hebrew text and by building the vocalization annotation interface—allowing for the continuous growth of a vocalized Hebrew text corpus.
abstract: Written modern Hebrew presents a unique challenge for training computational models for language processing because modern Hebrew text often lacks vocalization. The lack of available vocalized Hebrew data can lead to ambiguity in training these models and generally hinders work on natural language processing problems. The goal of this project is to contribute to the collection of vocalized Hebrew text by collecting and preprocessing a large corpus of unvocalized Hebrew text and building an online annotation tool. The annotation tool allows people to upload unvocalized Hebrew text, to annotate by adding Hebrew vocalization, and to download comma-separated values files of vocalized text. This project seeks to enhance the space both by collecting vocalized Hebrew text and by building the vocalization annotation interface—allowing for the continuous growth of a vocalized Hebrew text corpus.
author: Bloch, Rachel Shanblatt
keywords: Computational Linguistics, Jewish Studies, Linguistics, Hebrew, natural language processing, language annotation, diacritization, vocalization, niqud
date published: 2024-06-01T07:00:00Z
date modified: 2026-07-24T02:00:26Z
provider: City University of New York - Graduate Center
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York