Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
SpringerLink
Log in

Information Retrieval and Question Answering for Assisting Readers of the Late Antique to Medieval Corpora of the Aggadic Midrash

  • Chapter
Language, Culture, Computation. Computational Linguistics and Linguistics

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNISA,volume 8003))

Abstract

One category of software for the cultural heritage is tools intended to enhance the fruition texts of a literary canon. This overlaps much of humanities computing. This paper is about a project, now in the design phase, of a software tool that would help readers to understand homiletical derivations as proposed in the texts of the rabbinic so-called Aggadic Midrash. Unlike in GALLURA — which given a name, has the task of playfully generating narrative explanations in the style of those texts, and by adopting their poetic conventions — in the present Midrashic Q/A project, the explanation is already given concisely in the input texts, and the tool has to make sense of the imaginative derivation proposed there, and supply the user with a plain and explicit explanation of what is meant. The more proficient the tool would be, the more sophisticated the architecture enabling that: information retrieval and ontologies are invoked, but the tool should recreate a narrative situational nugget that underlies the homiletical playful etymology that the midrashic text proposes for a name.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  1. Alexander, P.S.: The Toponymy of the Targum with Special Reference to the Table of Nations and the Boundaries of the Land of Israel. D.Phil. Thesis, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. BLDSC reference no.: D11587/75; re film 2000 (1974)

    Google Scholar 

  2. Apte, M.: Apt Exploration of Wordplay. American Speech 64(2), 181–183 (1989); being a review of Redfern (1984)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Astour, M.C.: Zuzim. In: Freedman, D.N. (ed.) The Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 6, p. 1176. Doubleday, New York (1992) (in English)

    Google Scholar 

  4. Attardo, S.: Linguistic Theories of Humor. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin (1994)

    Google Scholar 

  5. Avi-Yona, M.: A Map of Roman Palestine, 2nd edn. Oxford University Press, Oxford (1940); 56 p. + folded map in pocket (scale: 1 : 250,000). The 1st edition was an offprint from the Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities, vol. 5, pp. 139–193

    Google Scholar 

  6. Baldinger, K.: À propos de l’influence de la langue sur la pensée: Étymologie populaire et changement sémantique parallèle. Revue de Linguistique Romane 37, 241–273 (1973)

    Google Scholar 

  7. Binsted, K., Pain, H., Ritchie, G.: Children’s Evaluation of Computer-Generated Punning Riddles. Pragmatics and Cognition 5(2), 305–354 (1997)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. Borchardt, F.L.: Etymology in Tradition and in the Northern Renaissance. Journal of the History of Ideas 29(3), 415–429 (1968)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. Braude, W.G.: Midrash as Deep Peshat. In: Brunswick, S.R. (ed.) Studies in Judaica, Karaitica and Islamica, pp. 31–38. Bar-Ilan University Press, Ramat-Gan, Israel (1982)

    Google Scholar 

  10. Chattaway, P.T.: Giants in the Bible. RELG, 303 (1994), http://peter.chattaway.com/articles/giants.htm

  11. Choueka, Y.: RESPONSA: An Operational Full-Text Retrieval System with Linguistic Components for Large Corpora. In: Cuomo, E.I. (ed.) Law in Multicultural Societies, Proceedings of IALL, the International Association of Law Libraries Meeting, Jerusalem, 1985, pp. 47–82 (1989)

    Google Scholar 

  12. Choueka, Y., Cohen, M., Dueck, J., Fraenkel, A.S., Slae, M.: Full-Text Document Retrieval: Hebrew Legal Texts (Report on the First Phase of the Responsa Retrieval Project). In: Minker, M., Rosenfeld, S. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Information Storage and Retrieval, Maryland, pp. 61–79. Association for Computing Machinery, New York (1971)

    Google Scholar 

  13. Choueka, Y., Fraenkel, A.S., Klein, S.T., Segal, E.: Improved Techniques for Processing Queries in Full-Text Systems. In: Yu, C.T., van Rijsbergen, C.J. (eds.) Proceedings of the Tenth Annual International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1987, pp. 306–315. ACM, New York (1987)

    Google Scholar 

  14. Culler, J. (ed.): On Puns: The Foundation of Letters. Basil Blackwell, Oxford (1988)

    Google Scholar 

  15. De Hamel, C.F.R.: Glossed Books of the Bible and the Origins of the Paris Booktrade. Brewer (Boydell & Brewer), Woodbridge, s in Suffolk, England (1984)

    Google Scholar 

  16. Dothan, T., Dothan, M.: People of the Sea: The Search for the Philistines. Macmillan, New York (1992)

    Google Scholar 

  17. Dyer, M.G.: In-Depth Understanding: A Computer Model of Integrated Processing of Narrative Comprehension. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. (1983)

    Google Scholar 

  18. Ehrlich, C.S.: Goliath. In: Freedman, D.N. (ed.) The Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 2, pp. 1073–1074. Doubleday, New York (1992) (in English)

    Google Scholar 

  19. Eisele, J.C.: Artificial Punning in the Egyptian Arabic Ballad: A Reinterpretation of Structuralist Poetics. Language 73(4), 751–769 (1997)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  20. Eshel, B.Z.:ישובי היהודים בבבל בתקופת התלמוד׃ אונומסטיקון תלמודי — Jewish Settlements in Babylonia during Talmudic Times. Magnes Press, Jerusalem (1979) (in Hebrew)

    Google Scholar 

  21. Fishbane, M. (ed.): The Midrashic Imagination. University of New York Press, New York (1993)

    Google Scholar 

  22. Garsiel, M.: Biblical Names: A Literary Study of Midrashic Derivations and Puns (enlarged, revised English edition; trans. P. Hackett). Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel (1991), Originally published in (1987)

    Google Scholar 

  23. Gottlieb, I.B.: Midrash as Biblical Philology. The Jewish Quarterly Review, n.s. 75(2), 134–161 (1984)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  24. HaCohen-Kerner, Y., Mughaz, D.: Estimating the Birth and Death Years of Authors of Undated Documents Using Undated Citations. In: Loftsson, H., Rögnvaldsson, E., Helgadóttir, S. (eds.) Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Natural Language Processing (IceTAL 2010), August 16-18, 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland. LNCS, vol. 6233, pp. 138–149. Springer, Heidelberg (2010)

    Google Scholar 

  25. HaCohen-Kerner, Y., Avigezer, T.S.-T., Ivgi, H.: The Computerized Preacher: A Prototype of an Automatic System that Creates a Short Rabbinic Homily. (In Hebrew.) B.D.D (Bekhol Derakhekha Daehu): Journal of Torah and Scholarship (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel) 18, 23–46 (2007)

    Google Scholar 

  26. HaCohen-Kerner, Y., Beck, H., Yehudai, E., Rosenstein, M., Mughaz, D.: Cuisine: Classification Using Stylistic Feature Sets and/or Name-Based Feature Sets. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) 61(8), 1644–1657 (2010)

    Google Scholar 

  27. HaCohen-Kerner, Y., Kass, A., Peretz, A.: A Hebrew Aramaic Abbreviation Disambiguation System. JASIST 61(9), 1923–1932 (2010)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  28. HaCohen-Kerner, Y., Schweitzer, N., Shoham, Y.: Automatic Identification of Biblical Quotations in Hebrew-Aramaic Documents. In: International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR), Valencia, Spain, pp. 320–325 (October 2010)

    Google Scholar 

  29. HaCohen-Kerner, Y., Avigezer, T.S.-T., Ivgi, H., Nissan, E., Zuckermann, G.: Midrashic Generation in DARSHAN, and Beyond: Which Kind of Empowerment Is Expected of GALLURA? In: Nissan, E., HaCohen-Kerner, Y., Stock, O., Strapparava, C., Zuckermann, G. (eds.) Verbal Creativity, Playful Interpretation, and Computational Humour (2011) (submitted book)

    Google Scholar 

  30. Halivni, D.W.: Peshat and Derash: Plain and Applied Meaning in Rabbinic Exegesis. Oxford University Press, Oxford (1991)

    Google Scholar 

  31. Hartman, G.H., Budick, S. (eds.): Midrash and Literature. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut (1986)

    Google Scholar 

  32. Hartsock, E.: In Defense of Punning. American Speech 4(3), 224–227 (1929)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  33. Hess, R.S.: Nephilim. In: Freedman, D.N. (ed.) The Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 4, pp. 1072–1073. Doubleday, New York (1992) (in English)

    Google Scholar 

  34. Hirshman, M.: Aggadic Midrash. In: Safrai, S., Safrai, Z., Schwartz, J., Tomson, P.J. (eds.) The Literature of the Sages, Second Part: Midrash and Targum, Liturgy, Poetry, Mysticism, Contracts, Inscriptions, Ancient Science and the Languages of Rabbinic Literature (Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum, Section Two: The Literature of the Jewish People in the Period of the Second Temple and the Talmud, 3a.), ch. 2, pp. 107–132. Royal Van Gorcum, Assen, The Netherlands & Augsburg Fortress Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2006)

    Google Scholar 

  35. Hübner, U.: Og von Baschan und sein Bett in Rabbat-Ammon (Deuteronomium 3, 11). Zeitschrlft fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 105, 86–92 (1993)

    Google Scholar 

  36. Jacobs, J.: The Midrashic Process: Tradition and Interpretation in Rabbinic Judaism. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K. (1995)

    Google Scholar 

  37. Jastrow, M.: Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (2 vols., New York & London, printed in Leipzig by Trübner & Co., and in London by Luzac, 1886–1903) (1903); Often reprinted by various publishers; Choreb, New York (2 vols. in 1, 1926, later reprinted by Jerusalem by Chorev); E. Shapiro [i.e., Shapiro, Vallentine], London (1926); Title Publ., New York (1943); Pardes Publ., New York (1950, 2 vols.); and with a new title, Hebrew–Aramaic–English Dictionary... (2 vols., 1969). Also (with the standard title), Judaica Press, New York, 1971 (2 vols. in 1); Jastrow Publishers, New York, 1903, repr. 1967 (2 vols. in 1); Shalom, Brooklyn (2 vols., 1967); Hendrickson Publ., Peabody, Massachusetts, 2005 (in 1 vol. of 1736 pp.), Online, Vol. 1: http://www.etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/14906.pdf , Vol. 2: http://www.etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/14499.pdf

  38. Kökeritz, H.: Punning names in Shakespeare. Modern Language Notes 65(4), 240–243 (1950)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  39. Lerner, M.B.: The works of Aggadic Midrash and the Esther Midrashim. In: Safrai, S., Safrai, Z., Schwartz, J., Tomson, P.J. (eds.) The Literature of the Sages, Second Part: Midrash and Targum, Liturgy, Poetry, Mysticism, Contracts, Inscriptions, Ancient Science and the Languages of Rabbinic Literature (Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum, Section Two: The Literature of the Jewish People in the Period of the Second Temple and the Talmud, 3a.), ch. 3, pp. 133–229. Royal Van Gorcum, Assen, The Netherlands & Augsburg Fortress Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2006)

    Google Scholar 

  40. Levin, S.: Giants and Dwarfs in the Bible. Adler Museum Bulletin 27, 14–15 (2001)

    Google Scholar 

  41. Levinson, J.: The Twice-Told Tale: A Poetics of Exegetical Narrative in Rabbinic Midrash. Magnes Press, Jerusalem (2005) (in Hebrew)

    Google Scholar 

  42. Levinson, J.: Literary Approaches to Midrash. In: Bakhos, C. (ed.) Current Trends in the Study of Midrash, pp. 189–226. Brill, Leiden (2006)

    Google Scholar 

  43. Lipinski, E.: ‘Anak — Kiryath Arba’: Hebron et ses sanctuaires tribaux. Vetus Testamentum 24, 41–55 (1974)

    Google Scholar 

  44. Maclaurin, E.C.B.: Anak / ’Aναξ. Vetus Testamentum 15(4), 468–474 (1965)

    Google Scholar 

  45. Manurung, R., Ritchie, G., Pain, H., Waller, A., O’Mara, D., Black, R.: The Construction of a Pun Generator for Language Skills Development. Applied Artificial Intelligence 22(9), 841–869 (2008)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  46. Margalith, O.: Sons of ‘Anaq and their Origin. Beth-Miqra 83, 359–364 (1979) (in Hebrew)

    Google Scholar 

  47. Margalith, O.: The Sea Peoples in the Bible. Dvir, Tel-Aviv (1988) (in Hebrew)

    Google Scholar 

  48. Mattingly, G.L.: Anak. In: Freedman, D.N. (ed.) The Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 1, p. 222. Doubleday, New York (1992) (in English)

    Google Scholar 

  49. Mattingly, G.L.: Emim. In: Freedman, D.N. (ed.) The Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 2, p. 497. Doubleday, New York (1992) (in English)

    Google Scholar 

  50. McMillion, P.E.: Og. In: Freedman, D.N. (ed.) The Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 5, p. 9. Doubleday, New York (1992) (in English)

    Google Scholar 

  51. Millard, A.R.: King Og’s Bed and Other Ancient lronmongery. In: Eslinger, L. (ed.) Ascribe to the Lord: Biblical and Other Studies in Memory of Peter C. Craigie. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament — Supplement Series, vol. 67, pp. 481–492 (1988)

    Google Scholar 

  52. Mueller, E.T.: Understanding Script-Based Stories Using Commonsense Reasoning. Cognitive Systems Research 5(4), 307–340 (2004)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  53. Neubauer, A.: La Géographie du Talmud; mémoire couronné par l’Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (Études Talmudiques, première partie), Michel Lévy frères, Paris (1868). Reprinted, La Géographie du Talmud. Meridian Publishing Co., Amsterdam (1965); G. Olms, Hildesheim, Germany (1967)

    Google Scholar 

  54. Ng, H.T., Teo, L.H., Kwan, J.L.P.: A Machine Learning Approach to Answering Questions for Reading Comprehension Tests. In: Proceedings of the 2000 Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora (EMNLP/VLC 2000), pp. 124–132 (2000)

    Google Scholar 

  55. Nissan, E.: Going West vs. Going East: Ancient Greek, Roman, Carthaginian, Mauretanian, and Celtic Conceptions About or Involvement with the Ocean, What Early Rabbinic Texts Say About the Ocean and the Formation of the Mediterranean, and Beliefs About Reaching the Antipodes. MHNH [μηνη]: revista internacional de investigación sobre magia y astrología antiguas (Málaga) 10, 279–310 (2010 [2011])

    Google Scholar 

  56. Nissan, E.: Narratives, Formalisms, Computational Tools, and Nonlinearity. In: Dershowitz, N., Nissan, E. (eds.) Choueka Festschrift, Part II. LNCS, vol. 8002, pp. 270–393. Springer, Heidelberg (2014)

    Google Scholar 

  57. Nissan, E.: A Study of Humorous Explanatory Tales. Bona-Fide vs. Mock-Aetiologies, and Poetic Conventions, I: A Prolegomenon; II: Advanced Topics. In: Nissan, E., HaCohen-Kerner, Y., Stock, O., Strapparava, C., Zuckermann, G. (eds.) Verbal Creativity, Playful Interpretation, and Computational Humour (submitted book)

    Google Scholar 

  58. Nissan, E.: Review of: N. Slifkin, Sacred Monsters: Mysterious and Mythical Creatures of Scripture, Talmud and Midrash (Zoo Torah, Jerusalem, 2007). Fabula: Journal of Folktale Studies 52(1/2), 153–156 (2011)

    Google Scholar 

  59. Nissan, E., HaCohen-Kerner, Y.: Information Retrieval in the Service of Generating Narrative Explanation: What we Want from GALLURA. In: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR 2011), Paris, October 26-29, pp. 487–492 (2011)

    Google Scholar 

  60. Nissan, E., HaCohen-Kerner, Y.: Storytelling and Etymythology: A Multi-Agent Approach. In: Nissan, E., HaCohen-Kerner, Y., Stock, O., Strapparava, C., Zuckermann, G.: Verbal Creativity, Playful Interpretation, and Computational Humour (submitted book)

    Google Scholar 

  61. Nissan, E., Weiss, H.: The HyperJoseph Project (2 parts). In: Poswick, F. (ed.) Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Bible and Computers (AIBI 1994), Amsterdam, August 15-18, 1994, pp. 154–162, 163–173. Champion-Slatkine, Geneva (1995)

    Google Scholar 

  62. Nissan, E., Weiss, H., Yossef, A.: HyperJoseph: The Hypertextual Organization. — Epistemological Considerations. Knowledge Organization 23(1), 16–24 (1996)

    Google Scholar 

  63. Nissan, E., Rossler, I., Weiss, H.: Hermeneutics, Accreting Receptions, Hypermedia: A Tool for Reference versus a Tool for Instruction. Journal of Educational Computing Research 17(3), 297–318 (1997)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  64. Nissan, E., HaCohen-Kerner, Y., Zuckermann, G.: Automating the Mimologiques: Weaving an Etymythology Step by Step. In: Nissan, E., HaCohen-Kerner, Y., Stock, O., Strapparava, C., Zuckermann, G.: Verbal Creativity, Playful Interpretation, and Computational Humour (submitted book)

    Google Scholar 

  65. Nissan, E., HaCohen-Kerner, Y., Zuckermann, G.: Creativity Out of Coincidence, and Playful Aetiologies: A Taxonomy. In: Nissan, E., HaCohen-Kerner, Y., Stock, O., Strapparava, C., Zuckermann, G.: Verbal Creativity, Playful Interpretation, and Computational Humour (submitted book)

    Google Scholar 

  66. Noegel, S.B.: The Aegean Ogygos of Boeotia and the Biblical Og of Bashan: Reflections of the Same Myth. Zeitschrlft fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 110, 411–426 (1998)

    Google Scholar 

  67. Orr, J.: L’étymologie populaire. Revue de Linguistique Romane 18, 129–142 (1954)

    Google Scholar 

  68. Palmer, A.S.: Folk-Etymology. A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions or Words Perverted in Form or Meaning, by False Derivation or Mistaken Analogy. G. Bell & Sons, London (1882); In the U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Co. (1883); repr. Greenwood Press, New York (1969)

    Google Scholar 

  69. Pritchard, J.B. (ed.): Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, 2nd edn. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey (1955), repr. (1969)

    Google Scholar 

  70. Rabin, C.: Og. Eretz Israel 8, 252–254 (1967) (in Hebrew)

    Google Scholar 

  71. Redfern, W.D.: Puns. Basil Blackwell, Oxford (1984); Published again as Puns: More Senses Than One, 2nd edn. Penguin, London (2000)

    Google Scholar 

  72. Reeg, G.: Die Ortsnamen Israels nach der rabbinischen Literatur. Reichert, Wiesbaden, Germany (1989)

    Google Scholar 

  73. Rippin, A.: Poetics of Quranic Punning. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 57, 193–207 (1994)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  74. Ritchie, G.: Current Directions in Computational Humour. Artificial Intelligence Review 16(2), 119–135 (2001)

    Article  MATH  Google Scholar 

  75. Ritchie, G.: The Linguistic Analysis of Jokes. Routledge, London (2004)

    Google Scholar 

  76. Ritchie, G., Manurung, R., Pain, H., Waller, A., O’Mara, D.: The STANDUP Interactive Riddle Builder. IEEE Intelligent Systems 21(2), 67–69 (2006)

    Google Scholar 

  77. Rubenstein, J.: The Exegetical Narrative: New Directions. Review of: J. Levinson, The Twice-Told Tale: A Poetics of Exegetical Narrative in Rabbinic Midrash. (Hebrew. Magnes Press, Jerusalem, 2005). The Jewish Quarterly Review 99, 88–106 (2009)

    Google Scholar 

  78. Safrai, Z.: Geography and Cosmography in Talmudic Literature. In: Safrai, S., Safrai, Z., Schwartz, J., Tomson, P.J. (eds.) The Literature of the Sages, Second Part: Midrash and Targum, Liturgy, Poetry, Mysticism, Contracts, Inscriptions, Ancient Science and the Languages of Rabbinic Literature (Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum, Section Two: The Literature of the Jewish People in the Period of the Second Temple and the Talmud, 3a.), ch. 15, pp. 497–508. Royal Van Gorcum, Assen, The Netherlands & Augsburg Fortress Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2006)

    Google Scholar 

  79. Samely, A.: Scripture’s Implicature: The Midrashic Assumptions of Relevance and Consistency. Journal of Semitic Studies 37, 167–205 (1992)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  80. Sarfatti, G.B.-A.: Folk Etymology in Modern Hebrew [in two parts, in Hebrew]. Lĕšonénu 39, 236–262 (1974/1975); 40, 117–141 (1975/1976)

    Google Scholar 

  81. Shanks, H.: The Philistines & the Dothans: An Archaeological Romance (An Interview with Moshe and Trude Dothan, Part 2). Biblical Archaeology Review 19(5), 40–53 (1993)

    Google Scholar 

  82. Sheldon, E.K.: Some Pun Among the Hucksters. American Speech 31(1), 13–20 (1956)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  83. Sitchin, Z.: Anakim Origins. Biblical Archaeology Review 20(1), 16 (1994)

    Google Scholar 

  84. Slifkin, N.: Sacred Monsters: Mysterious and Mythical Creatures of Scripture, Talmud and Midrash. Zoo Torah, Jerusalem (2007)

    Google Scholar 

  85. Smith, M.S.: Rephaim. In: Freedman, D.N. (ed.) The Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 5, pp. 674–676. Doubleday, New York (1992) (in English)

    Google Scholar 

  86. Sokolov, M.: Goliath and Og in the Midrash and in the Hadīth. Sefunot 17, 49–58 (1979/1980=5740) (in Hebrew)

    Google Scholar 

  87. Starcky, J.: Une inscription phénicienne de Byblos. Mélanges de l’Université Saint-Joseph 45, 260–273 (1969)

    Google Scholar 

  88. Stern, D.: Midrash and Indeterminacy. Critical Inquiry 5, 132–161 (1988)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  89. Stern, D.: Parables in Midrash: Narrative and Exegesis in Rabbinic Literature. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. (1991)

    Google Scholar 

  90. Stern, D.: Midrash and Theory: Ancient Jewish Exegesis and Contemporary Jewish Studies. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois (1996)

    Google Scholar 

  91. Stern, D.: Midrash and the Language of Exegesis: A Study of Vayikra Rabbah Chapter 1. In: Hartman, G.H., Budick, S. (eds.) Midrash and Literature, pp. 105–124. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois (1996)

    Google Scholar 

  92. Stock, O., Strapparava, C.: The Act of Creating Humorous Acronyms. Applied Artificial Intelligence 19(2), 131–151 (2005)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  93. Talmon, S.: Biblical Repa’im and Ugaritic Rpu/i(m). Hebrew Annual Review 7, 235–249 (1983)

    Google Scholar 

  94. Viora, M.: Corpus glossatorum juris civilis. Juris Italici Historiae Instituto Taurinensis Universitatis; Centro di studi di storia del diritto italiano, Università di Torino, Ex Officina Erasmiana, Augustae Taurinorum [= Turin, Italy] (1966)

    Google Scholar 

  95. Westwood, J., Simpson, J.: The Lore of the Land: A Guide to England’s Legends, from Spring-Heeled Jack to the Witches of Warboys. Penguin Books, London (2005); paperback (2006)

    Google Scholar 

  96. Winer, D.: Review of Ontology Based Storytelling Devices. In: Dershowitz, N., Nissan, E. (eds.) Choueka Festschrift, Part II. LNCS, vol. 8002, pp. 394–405. Springer, Heidelberg (2014)

    Google Scholar 

  97. Zuckermann, G.: Camouflaged Borrowing: Folk-Etymological Nativization in the Service of Puristic Language Engineering. D.Phil. Dissertation in Modern Languages, University of Oxford, Oxford, England (2000)

    Google Scholar 

  98. Zuckermann, G.: Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew. Palgrave Macmillan, London (2003)

    Book  Google Scholar 

  99. Zuckermann, G.: “Etymythological Othering” and the Power of “Lexical Engineering”. In: Omoniyi, T., Fishman, J.A. (eds.) Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion. Benjamins, Amsterdam, ch. 16, pp. 237–258 (2006)

    Google Scholar 

  100. HaCohen-Kerner, Y., Cohen, D.N., Nissan, E.: Experiments in Producing Playful “Explanations” for Given Names (Anthroponyms) in Hebrew and English. In: Métais, E., Meziane, F., Saraee, M., Sugumaran, V., Vadera, S. (eds.) Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2013), Salford (Manchester), England, 19–21 June 2013. LNCS, vol. 7934, pp. 321–327. Springer, Heidelberg (2013)

    Google Scholar 

  101. HaCohen-Kerner, Y., Cohen, D.N., Nissan, E., Zuckermann, G.: Graphemic Puns, and Software Making Them Up: The Case of Hebrew, vs. Chinese and Japanese. In: Felecan, O., Bugheşiu, A. (eds.) Onomastics in the Contemporary Public Space. Cambridge Scholars Publishers, Newcastle, England, pp. 548–556 (2013)

    Google Scholar 

  102. Nissan, E.: On a Few Categories of Personal Names Considered to Be Apt or Paradoxical. In: Felecan, O., Bugheşiu, A. (eds.) Onomastics in the Contemporary Public Space. Cambridge Scholars Publishers, Newcastle, England, pp. 28–49 (2013)

    Google Scholar 

  103. Nissan, E.: Les modèles informatiques de l’humour ou comment les ordinateurs créent de l’humour. Submitted (2013)

    Google Scholar 

  104. Nissan, E.: Onomastic Puns and Formal Argumentation. In: Felecan, O. (ed.) Unconventional Anthroponyms. Cambridge Scholars Publishers, Newcastle (2014) (in press)

    Google Scholar 

  105. Nissan, E.: Classes of Proper Names within Misantonyms. In: Felecan, O., Bugheşiu, A. (eds.) Unconventional Anthroponyms. Cambridge Scholars Publishers, Newcastle, England (2014) (in press)

    Google Scholar 

  106. Nissan, E., HaCohen-Kerner, Y.: The Design of the Phono-Semantic Matching (PSM) Module of the GALLURA Architecture for Generating Humorous Aetiological Tales. In: Felecan, O., Bugheşiu, A. (eds.) Unconventional Anthroponyms. Cambridge Scholars Publishers, Newcastle, England (2014) (in press)

    Google Scholar 

  107. Nissan, E., HaCohen-Kerner, Y.: GALLURA and the Challenge of Combining Phono-Semantic Matching with Story-Generation: Zoonomastic Illustration. In: Dershowitz, N., Nissan, E. (eds.) Choueka Festschrift, Part III. LNCS, vol. 8003, pp. 780–866. Springer, Heidelberg (2014)

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Science, Jerusalem College of Technology (Machon Lev), 21 Havaad Haleumi Street, P.O.B. 16031, Jerusalem, 91160, Israel

    Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner

  2. Department of Computing, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, 25–27 St. James, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW, England, U.K.

    Ephraim Nissan

Authors
  1. Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Ephraim Nissan
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Nachum Dershowitz

  2. Goldsmiths College, Department of Computing, University of London, 25–27 St. James, New Cross, SE14 6NW, London, UK

    Ephraim Nissan

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

HaCohen-Kerner, Y., Nissan, E. (2014). Information Retrieval and Question Answering for Assisting Readers of the Late Antique to Medieval Corpora of the Aggadic Midrash. In: Dershowitz, N., Nissan, E. (eds) Language, Culture, Computation. Computational Linguistics and Linguistics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8003. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45327-4_6

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45327-4_6

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-642-45326-7

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-642-45327-4

  • eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation