CLARIN-NL - inflection class

SHEBANQ Data

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SHEBANQ: System for HEBrew Text: ANnotations for Queries and Markup

Summary

The WIVU Hebrew Text Database contains the Hebrew text of the Old Testament enriched with many linguistic features at the morpheme level up to the discourse level.

Background

The WIVU (Werkgroep Informatica Vrije Universiteit) Hebrew Text Database contains the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) version of the text of the Hebrew Bible. Portions of other Semitic languages are included as well: the Aramaic sections of the Old Testament, two Syriac versions, and annotated portions of the Syriac and Aramaic translations. All these texts have been enriched with features that primarily result from linguistic analysis. The database can be queried by means of a language that is optimized to deal with data that is modeled as objects + features. SHEBANQ builds a bridge between the linguistically annotated Hebrew Text corpus and biblical scholars by (1) making this text, including its annotations, available to scholars; (2) demonstrating how queries can function to address research questions; the query saver and the metadata added to them will be a growing repository of valuable best practices of what queries are used in addressing research questions and how they contribute to answering these questions; (3) giving textual scholarship a more empirical basis, by creating the opportunity that claims made in scholarly articles (e.g.: “this syntactic pattern is not attested elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible”) can be accompanied by the unique identifiers that refer to the saved queries that have led to the claim. The WIVU database is a resource under long-term development. New features are being added, new corrections are being made over time.

Contacts

Project leader:  Prof. Dr. W.T. (Wido) van Peursen (VU University)
CLARIN center: Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
Help contact : dirk.roorda@dans.knaw.nl

Links

Web-sites: http://shebanq.ancient-data.org/
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): n.a.
Manual: http://shebanq.ancient-data.org/help
Tool/Service link: http://shebanq.ancient-data.org/
Data link (VLO): http://catalog.clarin.eu/vlo/record?q=SHEBANQ&docId=http_58__47__47_rest...
Data link (EASY): https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:58245 (Persistent Identifier: urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-048i-71)
Publications:
- Roorda, D. (2015). The Hebrew Bible as Data: Laboratory - Sharing - Experiences http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01866
- Roorda, D. (2014). LAF-Fabric: a data analysis tool for Linguistic Annotation Framework with an application to the Hebrew Bible, Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal, Volume 4, December 2014, pp. 105-109 http://www.clinjournal.org/sites/default/files/08-Roorda-etal-CLIN2014.pdf and http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.0286

Country

Netherlands

CLARIN centre

DANS

Language

Aramaic

Hebrew

Syriac

English

Research domain

Religion Studies

Computational Linguistics

Linguistics

Syntax

historical linguistics

Resource tags

data

corpus

text corpus

service

web-application

mono-lingual

Annotations

Linguistic Annotation

Translational

Gloss

Orthographic

orthographic representation

transliteration

Morphological

lemma

stem

inflection class

derivational affix boundaries

Morphosyntactic

Part-of-speech

extended part of speech (inflection)

gender

Syntactic

constituent structure

constituent labels

dependencies

dependency labels (grammatical relations)

Format

Textual data

LAF

GrAF

XML

RDF

GrNe Data

root — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 17:47:47 +0000

GrNe: Greek-Dutch dictionary

Summary

Online dictionary (ancient) Greek - Dutch for the letter Pi. The developers estimate that a complete version of the dictionary will be finished by the end of 2015 and that it will be published by the end of 2016.

Background

A new dictionary ancient Greek - Dutch is currently under construction at Leiden University. The dictionary is being financed through the 2010 Spinoza award of project director Ineke Sluiter. For now only the letter Pi is available in the dictionary. The developers estimate that a complete version of the dictionary will be finished by the end of 2015 and that it will be published by the end of 2016.
The corpus that is being covered by this dictionary covers Greek literature from its beginnings (Homer) and consists of ca. 3.680.000 words (tokens); it includes all classical authors from the 5th and 4th centuries BCE, and a selection of later Greek (selection based on the likelihood that the text will be used by our target groups), but all of the New Testament, Lucian and Plutarch. The dictionary will eventually contain ca. 52.500 headwords. It is based on a thorough comparison of state of the art dictionaries, supplemented with the help of the material from the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae.
Greek morphology is complicated. In order to use a dictionary effectively, a rather high level of initial language competence is necessary for the user to be able to relate the word-form s/he finds in a text to the correct basic lemma form, where the definition of the word can be found. This digital dictionary however has an added ‘lemmatizer’ function, which enables the user to type in the word as found in the text and to be redirected to the correct lemma. The digital resource enables both Greek-Dutch searches and searches for the possible Greek equivalents of Dutch terms. This also makes it possible to explore the relation of semantic fields in Dutch and Greek. E.g., it is possible to locate all Greek words that have ‘courage’ as part of their definition. Furthermore, the digital resource makes it possible to locate different Greek words with the same etymological roots. And finally, the dictionary is linked to the website of the University of Chicago, where a comparison of all Greek-x dictionaries is supported. Here, one can enter a Greek word and be provided with the equivalents and definitions in all the dictionaries that are linked on this website.

Contacts