Aynat Rubinstein

3 paper cards in Mova's library · 2021–2024

Aynat Rubinstein wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 2021–2024; often with Avi Shmidman, Paul Portner, Reut Tsarfaty.

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Ideas Mova took (1)

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kept — Constrain by a wordlist: in unpointed mode, restrict each token's candidates to forms in Mova's lexicon, then score them. (NLP in the DH pipeline: Transfer-learning to a Chronolect · host-lexicon check on unseen words (hostlex:b): hard filter hurts (names cut into known hosts: pointed dev 97.38 -> 95.77); soft b=0.3 kept for pointed (with…)

Computational Methods for the Analysis of Complementizer Variability in Language and Literature: The Case of Hebrew "she-" and "ki" (2024)
Modern Hebrew has two complementizers, še- and ki, that are usually described as interchangeable with ki as the more formal register.
NLP in the DH pipeline: Transfer-learning to a Chronolect (2021) 1 idea kept
The authors build a diacritizer (vowel marks) for Emergent Modern Hebrew, the Hebrew of the early twentieth century, using a hand-vocalised goldset of 144,446 words from the Jerusalem Corpus of Emergent Modern Hebrew (129,453 words of literature, 14,993 of ephemera).
The Possible, the Plausible, and the Desirable: Event-Based Modality Detection for Language Processing (2021)
The paper defines event-based modality detection: find every modal trigger in a sentence, of any part of speech (should, plan, prefers, probably, necessary, able), give it a sense, and link it to the head of the event it modifies.