Migrations of Textual and Scribal Traditions via Large-Scale Computational Analysis of Medieval Manuscripts in Hebrew Script

Project Information

MIDRASH

Grant agreement ID: 101071829

DOI

10.3030/101071829

EC signature date 18 April 2023

Start date 1 October 2023

End date 30 September 2029

Funded under

• European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 10 296 259,00

EU contribution

€ 10 296 259,00

Coordinated by

ECOLE PRATIQUE DES HAUTES ETUDES
France

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Publications

Conference proceedings (19)

Classifying Medieval Manuscripts by Pen and Support

Author(s): Sharva Gogawale, Omer Ventura, Daria <span>Vasyutinsky-Shapira</span>, Berat <span>Kurar-Barakat</span>, Gal Grudka, Mohammad Suliman, Iddo Hakim, Nachum Dershowitz
Published in: Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, Issue 3, 2025
Publisher: The Association for Computers and the Humanities
DOI: 10.63744/TL5XGCASCD42

Detecting Spiral Text Lines in Aramaic Incantation Bowls

Author(s): Said Nammneh, Boraq Madi, Nour Atamni, Shoshana Boardman, Daria Vasyutinsky-Shapira, Irina Rabaev, Raid Saabni, Jihad El-Sana
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Pattern Recognition, 2024
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-78495-8_16

Irony Detection in Hebrew Documents: A Novel Dataset and an Evaluation of Neural Classification Methods

Author(s): Avi Shmidman, Elda Weizman, Avishay Gerczuk
Published in: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities, 2025
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2025.NLP4DH-1.9

Splintering Nonconcatenative Languages for Better Tokenization

Author(s): Bar Gazit, Shaltiel Shmidman, Avi Shmidman, Yuval Pinter
Published in: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, 2025
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2025.FINDINGS-ACL.1151

The Development of Hebrew in Antiquity – A Computational Linguistic Study

Author(s): Hallel Baitner, Dimid Duchovny, Lee-Ad Gottlieb, Amir Yorav, Nachum Dershowitz, Eshbal Ratzon
Published in: Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Ancient Language Processing, 2025
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2025.ALP-1.7

Automatic Text Segmentation of Ancient and Historic Hebrew

Author(s): Elisha Rosensweig, Benjamin Resnick, Hillel Gershuni, Joshua Guedalia, Nachum Dershowitz, Avi Shmidman
Published in: Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Ancient Language Processing, 2025
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2025.ALP-1.1

Layer Duplication in LLMs

Author(s): Neo Eyal, Nachum Dershowitz, Kfir Bar
Published in: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, 2025
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2025.FINDINGS-EMNLP.967

Human vs. Computational Paleography: A Case of Ms. Hunt. 200

Author(s): Berat Kurar-Barakat, Daria Vasyutinsky-Shapira, Sharva Gogawale, Mohammad Suliman, Omer Ventura, Gal Grudka and Nachum Dershowitz
Published in: The Israeli International Conference on Digital Humanities and Social Sciences 2025 (DHSS2025), 2025
Publisher: Open University of Israel
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.18052683

Classification of Script Types and Modes for Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts

Author(s): Daria <span>Vasyutinsky-Shapira</span>, Irina Rabaev, Jihad El-Sana, Ophir Münz-Manor
Published in: Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, Issue 3, 2025
Publisher: The Association for Computers and the Humanities
DOI: 10.63744/KHC6JQFDCKNZ

Computational Analysis of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts

Author(s): Nachum Dershowitz
Published in: AAJS Conference: SANCTUARY Melbour ne Holocaust Museum, Februar y 2025, 2025
Publisher: AAJS Conference
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.18052521

A New Hebrew Universal Dependency Treebank: The First Treebank of Post-Rabbinic Historical Hebrew

Author(s): Rachel Tal, Shlomit Fuchs, Orly Albeck, Elisheva Brauner, Yitzchak Lindenbaum, Ephraim Meiri, Avi Shmidman
Published in: Proceedings of the 23rd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT, SyntaxFest 2025), 2025
Publisher: ACL
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17216881

Enhancing HTR of Historical Texts through Scholarly Editions: A Case Study from an Ancient Collation of the Hebrew Bible

Author(s): Luigi BAMBACI, Daniel STOEKL BEN EZRA
Published in: CHR 2023: Fourth Conference on Computational Humanities Research, December 6–8, 2023, École pour l’Informatique et les Techniques Avancées, Paris, France, 2023, ISSN 1613-0073
Publisher: CEUR

Restoring Missing Spaces in Scraped Hebrew Social Media

Author(s): Avi Shmidman, Shaltiel Shmidman
Published in: Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Noisy and User-generated Text, 2025
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2025.WNUT-1.3

Steps Towards Mining Manuscript Images for Untranscribed Texts: A Case Study From the Syriac Collection at the Vatican Library

Author(s): Luigi Bambaci, George Kiraz, Christine Roughan, Matthieu Freyder and Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra
Published in: CHR 2024: Computational Humanities Research Conference, December 4–6, 2024, Aarhus, Denmark, 2024
Publisher: CEUR

Automated Dating of Medieval Manuscripts with a New Dataset

Author(s): Boraq Madi, Nour Atamni, Vasily Tsitrinovich, Daria Vasyutinsky-Shapira, Jihad El-Sana, Irina Rabaev
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2024 Workshops, 2024
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-70642-4_8

Systematic Textual Availability of Manuscripts

Author(s): Hadar Miller, Samuel Londner, Tsvi Kuflik, Daria Vasyutinsky Shapira, Nachum Dershowitz, Moshe Lavee
Published in: Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge, Issue 3, 2025
Publisher: Unior Press
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.18051491

Multi-task Learning for Hebrew Paleography: Script Classification and Date Estimation

Author(s): Nour Atamni, Boraq Madi, Shoshana Bordman, Daria Vasyutinsky Shapira, Irina Rabaev, Jihad El-Sana
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2025, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-04630-7_5

Reverse Engineering Critical Apparatuses for HTR Ground Truth Creation: The Case of Kennicott’s Collation of the Hebrew Bible

Author(s): Luigi Bambaci, Nachum Dershowitz, Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra
Published in: Proceedings of the14th Annual Conference of the Association for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture (AIUCD-2025), Diversità, Equità e Inclusione: Sfide e Opportunità per l’Informatica Umanistica nell’Era dell’Intelligenza Artificiale, Proceedings del X, 2025
Publisher: Università di Bologna
DOI: 10.6092/UNIBO/AMSACTA/8380

Does Context Matter ? Enhancing Handwritten Text Recognition with Metadata in Historical Manuscripts

Author(s): Kiessling, Benjamin; Clérice, Thibault
Published in: CHR2024 – Computational Humanities Research Conference, 2024
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14870763

Peer reviewed articles (4)

NetLay: Layout Classification Dataset for Enhancing Layout Analysis

Author(s): Sharva Gogawale,Luigi Bambaci,Berat Kurar‑Barakat,Daria Vasyutinsky Shapira,Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra,Nachum Dershowitz
Published in: magazén, 2024, ISSN 2724-3923
Publisher: Edizioni Ca’Foscari
DOI: 10.30687/mag/2724‑3923/2024/02/003

Code-Switching and Back-Transliteration Using a Bilingual Model

Author(s): Daniel Weisberg Mitelman, Nachum Dershowitz, Kfir Bar
Published in: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2024, 2024, ISSN 1530-9312
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12739595

Estimating the Influence of Sequentially Correlated Literary Properties in Textual Classification: A Data-Centric Hypothesis-Testing Approach

Author(s): Gideon Yoffe, Nachum Dershowitz, Ariel Vishne, Barak Sober
Published in: Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, Issue 32, 2025, ISSN 0929-6174
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2025.2496172

Reading Georgian Manuscripts Automatically on the eScriptorium Platform

Author(s): Jost Gippert; Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra
Published in: Digital Kartvelology, 2024, ISSN 2720-8427
Publisher: Academy for Digital Humanities – Georgia
DOI: 10.62235/DK.3.2024.8508