Published 2026 | Version v1
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A Dataset for Metaphor Detection in Early Medieval Hebrew Poetry

Authors/Creators

  • 1. ROR icon Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
  • 2. ROR icon Open University of Israel

Description

The corpus of late antique and medieval Hebrew is vast and represents a crucial linguistic and cultural bridge between Biblical and modern Hebrew. Poetry is prominent in texts from these time periods and one of its characteristics is the use of metaphor. Distinguishing figurative and literal words or phrases is a major task for scholars in the Humanities, especially in the fields of literature, linguistics, and hermeneutics. We present a new, challenging dataset of early medieval Hebrew poetry with expert annotations of metaphors with baseline results.

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2026-06-05
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