by Willem van Peursen | Jan 31, 2022 | Digital Approaches to Sacred Texts, manuscripts, Pali, Text-Fabric
Bee Scherer (project lead) Dirk Roorda (text fabric) Yvon Mattaar (Pāli input) Willem van Peursen (DAST lead) The Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer (ETCBC) is linked to the research group Digital Approaches to Sacred Texts (DAST) at the Faculty of Religion and...
by Mark Klooster | Oct 26, 2020 | AI, Computational Linguistics, Database, Education, linguistics, Studies
Tuesday morning (Amsterdam time), September 1st, was the start of the course Digital Hermeneutics and the Reception of the Hebrew Bible at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Because of the coronavirus, all lectures took place online via Zoom meetings. Although it...
by Willem van Peursen | Sep 1, 2020 | AI, Bible, Computational Linguistics, Database, events, Text-Fabric
We are happy to announce the ETCBC meetings for the Fall semester. All meetings will be online through Zoom. Tuesday 22 September 2020, 11.00 am CET Text Features and Text Display in Text Fabric Dirk Roorda Text-Fabric, the Python package that many of us use for...
by Alba de Ridder | Mar 13, 2020 | Computational Linguistics, events, linguistics, manuscripts, methodology, news, Text-Fabric
From 14-21 February of 2020, the Lorentz-workshop “Processing Ancient Text Corpora”, organized by Cody Kingham, Wido van Peursen, Dirk Roorda and Nicolai Winther-Nielsen, in collaboration with the NIAS, took place. It was organized in the very comfortable...
by Joshua Berman | May 7, 2019 | Bible, Hebrew Bible, methodology, Stylistics
This past January my Bar-Ilan University colleague, the computational linguist Moshe Koppel and I launched the Tiberias Stylistic Classifier for the Hebrew Bible (https://tiberias.dicta.org.il/#/ ). Tiberias marshals cutting edge advances in the field of machine...
