A Novel Challenge Set for Hebrew Morphological Disambiguation and Diacritics Restoration (2020.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | morphological parsers face a formidable challenge with unbalanced ambiguities in homographs . case of unbalanciated ambiguity is difficult to disambiguate, especially in cases of unbalancing . a new dataset improves the overall average F1 score for Hebrew homograph . |
| Approach: | They propose a challenge set for Hebrew homographs with substantial attestation of each analysis of 21 Hebrew homographies. |
| Outcome: | The proposed set improves the average F1 score for Hebrew homographs by 0.67 . the annotated datasets are made publicly available for further research. |
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