Joshua2/talmud-punctuator-B-full

Talmud Punctuator — Model B (Steinsaltz)

Fine-tuned BEREL 3.0 for predicting punctuation in Talmudic Aramaic/Hebrew text.

Model B reflects the Steinsaltz/William Davidson Edition punctuation style, trained on 80,537 sentences across 36 masekhtot of the Babylonian Talmud.

Training details

• Base model: BEREL 3.0 (dicta-il/BEREL_3.0)
• Head: Linear classification (768 → 7 labels)
• Data: 80,537 sentences, 1,828,618 tokens
• Epochs: 5, Batch size: 32, LR: 2e-05
• Final loss: 0.2028
• Training time: 147 minutes

Labels

Label	Meaning
O	No punctuation
,	Comma
.	Period
:	Colon
;	Semicolon
?	Question mark
!	Exclamation mark
—	Em-dash

Usage

Use with the punctuator.py script from mivami.