David M. Smiley

3 paper cards in Mova's library · 2025–2026

David M. Smiley wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 2025–2026.

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Papers

MiqraBERT: Regression-Based Sentence-BERT Finetuning for Biblical Hebrew Parallel Detection (2026)
A follow-up to the author's 2025 benchmark: AlephBERT (Modern Hebrew) is finetuned as a Sentence-BERT model with cosine-similarity regression on 1,650 verse and half-verse pairs, 825 true parallels (Chronicles synoptic material and poetic parallels from classic studies, the T'OMIM set) and 825 random negatives, over…
T'OMIM: A Morphologically Annotated Dataset of Parallel Passages in the Hebrew Bible (2026)
The full text is not in the library; this card rests on the published abstract and catalogue record, and its ideas are provisional.
Intertextual Parallel Detection in Biblical Hebrew: A Transformer-Based Benchmark (2025)
The paper tests whether off-the-shelf sentence embedders can find the verses of Chronicles that reuse Samuel and Kings (558 known parallel verses, BHSA text).