metadata
license: mit
language:
- he
pretty_name: MILIM-Bench
MILIM-Bench
MILIM-Bench is a small Hebrew benchmark for evaluating grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) systems. It contains Hebrew text examples grouped by linguistic category, with target pronunciations for the words that should be checked.
The benchmark is distributed as MILIM-Bench-v5.tsv and is hosted on Hugging
Face at renikud/MILIM-Bench.
Format
Each row contains:
Category: the phenomenon being tested.Text: the Hebrew sentence or phrase.Label: expected pronunciation targets, written astoken_index=IPA. Token indexes start from 0, and a row may contain one or more indexed words.
Example label:
2=leχˈa
This means token 2 in the text should be pronounced leχˈa.
Categories
The current file has 1,653 examples across 12 categories:
- acronyms
- colloquial
- foreign
- gender
- homographs
- ilspeech-v2-test
- minimal stress pairs
- names
- penultimate stress
- rare phonemes
- slang
- Regular Homographed
Intended Use
Use this dataset to compare Hebrew G2P outputs against category-specific expected pronunciations, especially for ambiguity, stress placement, names, loanwords, slang, acronyms, and gendered forms.