עפרה תירוש-בקר, " 'חכמת אדם תאיר פניו', אשרינו שזכינו להיות מתלמידיו", לזכרו של יהושע בלאו, בעריכת סימון הופקינס, ירושלים: האקדמיה הלאומית הישראלית למדעים, תשפ"ג, עמ' 44-38.
Most linguistic studies of Judeo-Arabic, the ensemble of dialects spoken and written by Jews in Arab lands, are qualitative in nature and rely on laborious manual annotation work, and are therefore limited in scale. In this work, we develop automatic methods for morpho-syntactic tagging of Algerian Judeo-Arabic texts published by Algerian Jews in the 19th–20th centuries, based on a linguistically tagged corpus. First, we describe our semi-automatic approach for preprocessing these texts. Then, we experiment with both an off-the-shelf morphological tagger, several specially designed neural network taggers, and a hybrid human-in-the-loop approach. Finally, we perform a real-world evaluation of new texts that were never tagged before in comparison with human expert annotators. Our experimental results demonstrate that these methods can dramatically speed up and improve the linguistic research pipeline, enabling linguists to study these dialects on a much greater scale.
Ofra Tirosh-Becker. 8/2022. “Algerian Judeo-Arabic”. In Encyclopedia Of Jews In The Islamic World, N. A. Stillman (Ed.). Leiden: Brill (Online). Abstract
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