Domain-Aware Error Correction for Citation NER in Medieval Hebrew Responsa

Shmuel LIebeskind, Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Binyamin Katzoff, Nati Ben-Gigi, Jonathan Schler


Abstract
Citation identification in historical and ancient texts poses challenges that extend beyond surface-level pattern recognition, including implicit references, morphological fusion, and discourse-driven ambiguity. In this work, we address citation Named Entity Recognition (NER) in medieval Hebrew Responsa literature using a modular, LLM-based correction pipeline. Rather than treating large language models as end-to-end predictors, we leverage them as structured components: an initial prompt-based expert tagger, complementary LLM judges for systematic error detection, and domain-aware correction grounded in philological regularities. Our approach requires no end-to-end fine-tuning and only minimal labeled supervision (a small validation set for training a lightweight error-detection classifier), narrowing the performance gap to strong supervised models trained on domain-specific data. The results suggest that explicit error handling and interpretability-driven design offer a promising direction for historical NLP in low-resource settings.
Anthology ID:
2026.lt4hala-1.9
Volume:
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA 2026) @ LREC 2026
Month:
May
Year:
2026
Address:
Palma, Mallorca (Spain)
Editors:
Rachele Sprugnoli, Marco Passarotti
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LT4HALA | WS
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Publisher:
ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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Pages:
96–105
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External URL:
https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-ws-lt4hala-09
DOI:
10.63317/5euewaq3i8b5
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Shmuel LIebeskind, Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Binyamin Katzoff, Nati Ben-Gigi, and Jonathan Schler. 2026. Domain-Aware Error Correction for Citation NER in Medieval Hebrew Responsa. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA 2026) @ LREC 2026, pages 96–105, Palma, Mallorca (Spain). ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Domain-Aware Error Correction for Citation NER in Medieval Hebrew Responsa (LIebeskind et al., LT4HALA 2026)
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