LAF-Fabric: a data analysis tool for Linguistic Annotation Framework with an application to the Hebrew Bible

The Linguistic Annotation Framework (LAF) provides a general, extensible stand-off markup system for corpora. This paper discusses LAF-Fabric, a new tool to analyse LAF resources in general with an extension to process the Hebrew Bible in particular. We first walk through the history of the Hebrew Bible as text database in decennium-wide steps. Then we describe how LAF-Fabric may serve as an analysis tool for this corpus. Finally, we describe three analytic projects/workflows that benefit from the new LAF representation: 1) the study of linguistic variation: extract cooccurrence data of common nouns between the books of the Bible (Martijn Naaijer); 2) the study of the grammar of Hebrew poetry in the Psalms: extract clause typology (Gino Kalkman); 3) construction of a parser of classical Hebrew by Data Oriented Parsing: generate tree structures from the database (Andreas van Cranenburgh)

Ny teknologi i en gammel verden. Kunstig intelligens og oldhebraiske tekster

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Parallel Texts in the Hebrew Bible, New Methods and Visualizations

In this article we develop an algorithm to detect parallel texts in the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible. The results are presented online and chapters in the Hebrew Bible containing parallel passages can be inspected synoptically. Differences between parallel passages are highlighted. In a similar way the MT of Isaiah is presented synoptically with 1QIsaa. We also investigate how one can investigate the degree of similarity between parallel passages with the help of a case study of 2 Kings 19-25 and its parallels in Isaiah, Jeremiah and 2 Chronicles

DT-UCPH/sp: Features gn and prs_gn

Text-Fabric dataset of the Samaritan Pentateuch. The features are similar to those of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia Amstelodamensis (BHSA), so we refer to the BHSA feature documentation for more explanation of the features. The text was provided by the Samaritanus-project based at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, directed by Stefan Schorch, and is based on a transcription MS Dublin Chester Beatty Library 751 (Gen 1-Deut 32:36) + MS Garizim 1 (Deut 32:36b-34), cf. Stefan Schorch (ed.), The Samaritan Pentateuch: A critical editio maior. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018-. The features released in this version include: g_cons lex sp g_vbs g_pfm g_lex g_vbe g_nme g_uvf g_prs vt ps prs_ps nu prs_nu gn prs_g