Restoring Hebrew Diacritics Without a Dictionary

Elazar Gershuni, Yuval Pinter


Abstract
We demonstrate that it is feasible to accurately diacritize Hebrew script without any human-curated resources other than plain diacritized text. We present Nakdimon, a two-layer character-level LSTM, that performs on par with much more complicated curation-dependent systems, across a diverse array of modern Hebrew sources. The model is accompanied by a training set and a test set, collected from diverse sources.
Anthology ID:
2022.findings-naacl.75
Volume:
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022
Month:
July
Year:
2022
Address:
Seattle, United States
Editors:
Marine Carpuat, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz
Venue:
Findings
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1010–1018
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-naacl.75
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.findings-naacl.75
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Cite (ACL):
Elazar Gershuni and Yuval Pinter. 2022. Restoring Hebrew Diacritics Without a Dictionary. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022, pages 1010–1018, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Restoring Hebrew Diacritics Without a Dictionary (Gershuni & Pinter, Findings 2022)
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PDF:
https://preview.aclanthology.org/dois-2013-emnlp/2022.findings-naacl.75.pdf
Software:
 2022.findings-naacl.75.software.zip
Video:
 https://preview.aclanthology.org/dois-2013-emnlp/2022.findings-naacl.75.mp4
Code
 elazarg/nakdimon
Data
Nakdimon-testNakdimon-train