by Willem van Peursen | Jun 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
Since the 1970s the Werkgroep Informatica Vrije Univesiteit, which in 2013 was rebaptized the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer (ETCBC) has been involved in the computational analysis of the Bible and other religious texts. In the course of time it has...
by Willem van Peursen | Aug 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Willem van Peursen, Martijn Naaijer, Constantijn Sikkel, Mathias Coeckelbergs Encoded text as strings In our previous blogpost, we explained how the ETCBC morphological encoding results in a concisely structured string. We concluded that blogpost by observing that...
by Mathias Coeckelbergs | Sep 20, 2021 | AI, Bible, Computational Linguistics, Hebrew Bible, linguistics, Open Science, Peshitta, semantics, Syriac, Uncategorized
This very first blogpost seeks to report on our advancements in the PaTraCoSy (PAtterns in TRAnslation: Using COlibriCore for the Hebrew Bible corpus and its SYriac translation) project, which is funded by CLARIAH. The overall goal of this project is to use the...
by Willem van Peursen | Jan 27, 2021 | Bible, Computational Linguistics, events, Hebrew Bible, Open Science, Text-Fabric, Uncategorized
In the next months we will have an exciting schedule of research meetings and presentations. All will meetings will be online. For Zoom meetings send a request Prof. Wido van Peursen Thursday 4 Feb 2021 11.00–13.00 CET Wido van Peursen Digital Approaches to the Old...
by Willem van Peursen | Jun 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
By Eep Talstra On May 8 2020 my dear long-time friend and colleague, Christof Hardmeier, passed away, at the age of 77. A man of great talents, he was capable of participating intensely in various domains of life: theology, churches, political activities, literature,...
by Eliran Wong | Oct 30, 2019 | Bible, Database, Hebrew Bible, Hebrew Learning, Open Science, Uncategorized
It was my pleasure to give a brief overview of BibleBento.com on the 40th anniversary of the ETCBC. I would like to share a little bit more here, including progress of the development since the presentation. I am a full-time church minister. I like collecting Bible...
