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The Hebrew Bible as Data: Laboratory – Sharing – Experiences

What it is about

A history-and-practice report on how the ETCBC (formerly WIVU) text database of the Hebrew Bible was opened up. The database, built since the 1970s on BHS, holds observations rather than a theory: words, phrases, clauses and sentences as objects with features, in several overlapping hierarchies (Doedens' text model, queried through Emdros/MQL). The author converted it to the ISO Linguistic Annotation Framework (stand-off annotation over an immutable Unicode text: 426 555 words, about 946 000 objects, 25 million features), wrote LAF-Fabric to compile that XML into fast binary structures, and built SHEBANQ, a site where saved queries show up as margin annotations on the verses they hit. Lessons: immutable primary text makes stand-off annotation work; publish feature documentation with frequency lists of every value; a researcher is closer to a scientific programmer than to a software engineer.

Ideas

For Mova

I1 fits the parse database and the Torah course (13-mova-tools.md §10) and the examples of every chapter. I2 belongs in 13-mova-tools.md §5 (FEATS and MISC) as a generated table from tools/macula. I3 and I4 are engineering rules for tools/macula (and match the world store's hashing); I3 is a gate that should be shown red once on a deliberately altered text.

Cite

The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. arXiv 1501.01866

@misc{roorda2015hebrew,
  title = {{The Hebrew Bible as Data: Laboratory – Sharing – Experiences}},
  author = {Roorda, Dirk},
  year = {2015},
  eprint = {1501.01866},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01866}
}

References

25 references, 2 of them with a card of ours. ↗ leads to the work, «find» searches for one we have no id for yet.

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  2. Bouda, Peter, Vera Ferreira, and António Lopes (2012), Poio API - an annotation framework to bridge language documentation and natural language processing., Proceedings of The Second Workshop on Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities, Lisbon, 2012, Lisbon, Portugal. ISBN: 978-989-689-273-9, http://alfclul.clul.ul.pt/crpc/acrh2/ACRH-2_papers/ Bouda-Ferreira-Lopes.pdf. ↗
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  5. Gleick, James, editor (2011), The Information: a History, a Theory, a Flood, HarperCollins. ISBN: 0007225741, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Information:_A_History,_a_Theory, _a_Flood. ↗
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  7. Kalkman, Gino J. (2013), Functions of asyndetic clause relations in biblical Hebrew. IPython Notebook. http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/ETCBC/Biblical_Hebrew_Analysis/blob/ master/Miscellaneous/AsyndeticClauseFunctions.ipynb. ↗
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  13. Petersen, Ulrik (2006), Principles, Implementation Strategies, and Evaluation of a Corpus Query System, Vol. 4002, Springer, p. 215226. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007% 2F11780885_21. ↗
  14. Peursen, Wido Th. van and Dirk Roorda (2014), Hebrew text database in Linguistic Annotation Framework. Dataset available online at Data Archiving and Networked services, Den Haag, Netherlands. PID: urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-048i-71, http://www.persistent-identifier.nl/ ?identifier=urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-048i-71. ↗
  15. Roorda, Dirk (2012), Queries-as-annotations. Github repository. https://github.com/Dans-labs/ annotation-paradigm. ↗
  16. Roorda, Dirk (2013-2014b), LAF-Fabric. workbench for analysing LAF resources. Python software on Github. https://github.com/ETCBC/laf-fabric. ↗
  17. Roorda, Dirk (2014a), LAF-Fabric notebooks. examples of data processing for the hebrew bible. Python software on Github. https://github.com/ETCBC/laf-fabric-nbs. ↗
  18. Roorda, Dirk and Charles M.J.M. van den Heuvel (2012), Annotation as a new paradigm in research archiving, Proceedings of ASIS&T 2012 Annual Meeting. Final Papers, Panels and Posters. https://www.asis.org/asist2012/proceedings/Submissions/84.pdf (author’s version: http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6069). ↗ our card
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  21. Roorda, Dirk, Martijn Naaijer, Gino J. Kalkman, and Andreas van Cranenburgh (to appear 2015), Laf-fabric: a data analysis tool for linguistic annotation framework with an application to the hebrew bible, Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal. ISSN: 2211-4009, preprint http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.0286. ↗ our card
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  24. van Peursen, Wido Th., Dirk Roorda, Henk van den Berg, and Heleen van de Schraaf (2014), SHEBANQ, a search engine and query saver for the etcbc text database of the hebrew bible. web application. http://shebanq.ancient-data.org. ↗
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