by Thijs Amersfoort | Apr 14, 2025 | Bible, Database, events, Hebrew Bible, Hebrew Learning, linguistics, Translation
A symposium was organized on the 4th and 5th of April by the ETF Leuven, Noster, and the Netherlands-Flemish Bible Society in Leuven on the topic of valency grammar in the Biblical languages. The event featured a comprehensive discussion of the history of the research...
by Samuel Swire | Oct 8, 2024 | AI, Bible, Computational Linguistics, linguistics, manuscripts
By Samuel Swire and Thijs Amersfoort In his article Computational Linguistic Analysis of the Biblical Text Willem van Peursen gave an overview of the development of the computational analysis of the Bible from its early beginnings through 2022. Since then, the...
by Willem van Peursen | Sep 27, 2023 | AI, Digital Approaches to Sacred Texts, events, linguistics, news, Social Media
Live-mapping Religious Difference Online The interplay of Digital Society, religious texts mediated online, and live-mapping What is the feasibility of live-mapping the differential use of religious texts in social media to identify religious issues present across...
by Mathias Coeckelbergs | Sep 29, 2022 | AI, Bible, Digital Approaches to Sacred Texts, Hebrew Bible, linguistics, Peshitta, semantics, text linguistics
In this third and final blogpost for the PaTraCoSy project (for the previous blogposts, click here or here), we delve deeper into the possibilities of the Colibri Core (CC) infrastructure to study the translation patterns between Hebrew and Syriac versions of the...
by Willem van Peursen | Jul 4, 2022 | AI, Computational Linguistics, Hebrew Bible, linguistics, methodology
Willem van Peursen, Martijn Naaijer, Constantijn Sikkel, Mathias Coeckelbergs[1] “How can we make a Machine Learning (ML) based parser for the morphology of inflectional languages?” This question was the starting point for the project “Morphological Parser for...
by Mathias Coeckelbergs | Jan 21, 2022 | AI, Bible, Computational Linguistics, Hebrew Bible, linguistics, methodology, Open Science, Peshitta, semantics, Syriac, text linguistics
This second blogpost for the PaTraCoSy project brings us to a first discussion of the translation patterns from the Hebrew Bible into the Peshitta. Before we can address the results, we briefly describe how we constructed the model. After installation of Colibri Core,...
