[Heb-NACO] Library of Congress, Israel & Judaica section Invitation to Presentation on Natural Language Processing and its Applications in Hebraica Cataloging, Oct. 31, 1:30-2:30

[David Roth]

Glad you got in touch with Avi and are getting him to speak! Reminder that while you have him by you, you might want to talk to him about piyyut which is really his field.

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We cordially invite you to a presentation on ““Natural Language Processing and its Applications in Hebraica Cataloging” by Dr. Avi Shmidman of Bar-Ilan University in Israel. The presentation is scheduled for October 31 from

We cordially invite you to a presentation on ““Natural Language Processing and its Applications in Hebraica Cataloging” by Dr. Avi Shmidman of Bar-Ilan University in Israel.  The presentation is scheduled for October 31 from 1:30pm to 2:30pm EDT.  This will be a hybrid event, held both via Zoom (the appointment is attached) and in person at The Library of Congress.

101 Independence Ave, SE, Washington, DC. In the ASME Conference Room in LM541.  Seating is limited, so please email Jessalyn Zoom at jiwu at loc.gov<mailto:jiwu at loc.gov> in advance if you plan to attend in person.  We are looking forward to having you join us on October 31st !



Title: Natural Language Processing and its Applications in Hebraica Cataloging



Presenter: Dr. Avi Shmidman, Bar-Ilan University, Israel



Date and Time: October 31, 1:30pm-2:30pm EDT, via Zoom and in LM541 Conference Room



Synopsis: One of the most exciting advances of the last few years in the world of Natural Language Processing was the release of the BERT algorithm ("Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers"). To what extent does this algorithm provide the means to understand nuances of Hebrew text, and how can this algorithm help us with the specific challenges of Hebrew text processing? These are the questions that Dr. Shmidman will explore in this lecture. Dr. Shmidman will demonstrate how Hebrew-specific BERT models provide the ability to disambiguate Hebrew words, to identify mistakes in large Hebrew textual corpora, to expand Hebrew abbreviations, to improve Hebrew optical character





Asher Lewis

Hebraica and Judaica Cataloging Librarian

Asian and Middle Eastern Division, Israel and Judaica Section

Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate

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