[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/aclbulk-1998-netzer-generating-determiners-quantifiers-hebrew/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [docs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/) / [papers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/) / [Modern Hebrew](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/he/) / Generating Determiners and Quantifiers in Hebrew # Generating Determiners and Quantifiers in Hebrew **Authors:** [Yael Dahan Netzer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/yael-dahan-netzer/); [Michael Elhadad](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/michael-elhadad/) · **Year:** 1998 · **Venue:** Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages **Link:** [aclanthology.org/W98-1012](https://aclanthology.org/W98-1012/) · library `aclbulk-1998-netzer-generating-determiners-quantifiers-hebrew` · **Licence:** [CC BY-NC-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/) — summary only [**6** citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=cites:W2075174463) openalex · 2026-10-18[**3** citations in our library](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/cited-by/aclbulk-1998-netzer-generating-determiners-quantifiers-hebrew/) of the 140673 papers whose bibliographies we read[Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages](https://aclanthology.org/volumes/W98-10/)[licence](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/) - [Publisher's page](https://aclanthology.org/W98-1012/) - [PDF](https://aclanthology.org/W98-1012.pdf) - [DOI 10.3115/1621753.1621769](https://doi.org/10.3115/1621753.1621769) - [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/W2075174463) **Authors (2)** 1. [Yael Dahan Netzer](https://openalex.org/A5020237882) h 7 · 153 citations · 24 works 2. [Michael Elhadad](https://openalex.org/A5013658527) [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5629-2351) · h 25 · 3695 citations · 137 works Citations and author metrics from openalex (2026-10-18); authors with the same name are not always told apart. ## What it is about The paper is one part of HUGG, a Hebrew generation grammar built to share an input specification with the English grammar SURGE. It asks which features must be in the input so that a generator can produce complex Hebrew noun phrases, with determiners and quantifiers placed before and after the head. The authors find two properties of Hebrew that SURGE's binary `definite` feature cannot express: definiteness marking appears on several words of the NP, and the order of determiners is flexible but restricted. They add a three-valued `mark-definite` feature (yes, no, indefinite), and they sort quantifiers into partitive, amount and determiner classes. Only partitives can recurse, and an explicit "X of Y" construction is forced when the portion is modified. The paper gives no corpus figures; it is a feature analysis with worked examples. ## Ideas - I1. Three-valued definiteness with inheritance: the default is that a sub-constituent takes the definiteness of its mother NP, which lexical items and the construct (smixut) block. Write this as a rule for where the `ha-` marker appears on each word of an NP in [Nouns, adjectives, pronouns and numerals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/he/04-nouns-adjectives-pronouns/), with the paper's examples as the test cases. - I2. A finite-state order check for prenominal determiners: partitive, then determiner, then amount, then head, with at most one amount and one identification per NP. Run it on NP chunks taken from the trees in [7. Syntax](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/he/07-syntax/), and count the violations. - I3. Lexical flags that forbid an explicit partitive construction for some quantifiers (the paper's `col` case). Keep them as a feature on the lexical entry in [8. Lexicon and register](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/he/08-lexicon-register/), not as a rule. ## For Mova I1 goes into [Nouns, adjectives, pronouns and numerals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/he/04-nouns-adjectives-pronouns/). I2 is a check on [7. Syntax](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/he/07-syntax/), measured on the Hebrew trees. I3 belongs in [8. Lexicon and register](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/he/08-lexicon-register/). The paper is about generation; the feature set can also serve as the target of the world's frames for NPs, which is an idea for `prag` and `world`, not yet tested. ## Cite The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. [DOI 10.3115/1621753.1621769](https://doi.org/10.3115/1621753.1621769) ``` @inproceedings{netzer1998generating, title = {{Generating Determiners and Quantifiers in Hebrew}}, author = {Netzer, Yael Dahan and Elhadad, Michael}, booktitle = {Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages}, year = {1998}, doi = {10.3115/1621753.1621769}, url = {https://doi.org/10.3115/1621753.1621769} } ``` - [← previous AlephBERT: Language Model Pre-training and Evaluation from Sub-Word to Sentence Level](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/acl-2022-seker-alephbert-language-model-pre-training/) - [next → Towards a linguistically motivated computational grammar for Hebrew](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/aclbulk-1998-wintner-linguistically-motivated-computational-grammar-hebrew/) - [↑ back to Modern Hebrew](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/he/) ## References 11 references, 0 of them with a card of ours. ↗ leads to the work, «find» searches for one we have no id for yet. 1. 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