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Nakdan: Professional Hebrew Diacritizer

Computation and Language 2020-05-08 v1

Abstract

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 dictionaries. Besides providing state of the art diacritization accuracy, the system also supports an interface for manual editing and correction of the automatic output, and has several features which make it particularly useful for preparation of scientific editions of Hebrew texts. The system supports Modern Hebrew, Rabbinic Hebrew and Poetic Hebrew. The system is freely accessible for all use at http://nakdanpro.dicta.org.il.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2005.03312,
  title  = {Nakdan: Professional Hebrew Diacritizer},
  author = {Avi Shmidman and Shaltiel Shmidman and Moshe Koppel and Yoav Goldberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.03312},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Accepted to ACL 2020, System Demonstrations

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