SHEBANQ Data

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SHEBANQ: System for HEBrew Text: ANnotations for Queries and Markup

Summary

The WIVU Hebrew Text Database contains the Hebrew text of the Old Testament enriched with many linguistic features at the morpheme level up to the discourse level.

Background

The WIVU (Werkgroep Informatica Vrije Universiteit) Hebrew Text Database contains the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) version of the text of the Hebrew Bible. Portions of other Semitic languages are included as well: the Aramaic sections of the Old Testament, two Syriac versions, and annotated portions of the Syriac and Aramaic translations. All these texts have been enriched with features that primarily result from linguistic analysis. The database can be queried by means of a language that is optimized to deal with data that is modeled as objects + features. SHEBANQ builds a bridge between the linguistically annotated Hebrew Text corpus and biblical scholars by (1) making this text, including its annotations, available to scholars; (2) demonstrating how queries can function to address research questions; the query saver and the metadata added to them will be a growing repository of valuable best practices of what queries are used in addressing research questions and how they contribute to answering these questions; (3) giving textual scholarship a more empirical basis, by creating the opportunity that claims made in scholarly articles (e.g.: “this syntactic pattern is not attested elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible”) can be accompanied by the unique identifiers that refer to the saved queries that have led to the claim. The WIVU database is a resource under long-term development. New features are being added, new corrections are being made over time.

Contacts

Project leader:  Prof. Dr. W.T. (Wido) van Peursen (VU University)
CLARIN center: Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
Help contact : dirk.roorda@dans.knaw.nl

Links

Web-sites: http://shebanq.ancient-data.org/
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): n.a.
Manual: http://shebanq.ancient-data.org/help
Tool/Service link: http://shebanq.ancient-data.org/
Data link (VLO): http://catalog.clarin.eu/vlo/record?q=SHEBANQ&docId=http_58__47__47_rest...
Data link (EASY): https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:58245 (Persistent Identifier: urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-048i-71)
Publications:
- Roorda, D. (2015). The Hebrew Bible as Data: Laboratory - Sharing - Experiences http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01866
- Roorda, D. (2014). LAF-Fabric: a data analysis tool for Linguistic Annotation Framework with an application to the Hebrew Bible, Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal, Volume 4, December 2014, pp. 105-109 http://www.clinjournal.org/sites/default/files/08-Roorda-etal-CLIN2014.pdf and http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.0286

Country

Netherlands

CLARIN centre

DANS

Language

Aramaic

Hebrew

Syriac

English

Research domain

Religion Studies

Computational Linguistics

Linguistics

Syntax

historical linguistics

Resource tags

data

corpus

text corpus

service

web-application

mono-lingual

Annotations

Linguistic Annotation

Translational

Gloss

Orthographic

orthographic representation

transliteration

Morphological

lemma

stem

inflection class

derivational affix boundaries

Morphosyntactic

Part-of-speech

extended part of speech (inflection)

gender

Syntactic

constituent structure

constituent labels

dependencies

dependency labels (grammatical relations)

Format

Textual data

LAF

GrAF

XML

RDF

DUELME Data

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DUELME: Dutch Electronic Lexicon of Multiword Expressions

Summary

DUELME is an electronic lexicon that contains more than 5,000 Dutch multiword expressions (MWEs). The DUELME lexicon is suitable for theoretical research on multiword expressions as well as for use in NLP systems. Multiword expressions with similar syntactic patterns are grouped in equivalence classes. Semantic restrictions on variable arguments are encoded. A search interface for this database is available here

Background

DuELME (Dutch Electronic Lexicon of Multiword Expressions) is one of the results of the project Identification and Representation of Multiword Expressions (IRME) and contains lexical descriptions of over 5,000 multiword expressions (MWEs). The lexical descriptions boast to be highly theory- and implementation-neutral. The lexicon is primarily intended for the use in various NLP systems.
The DuELME-LMF project has been carried out within the CLARIN-NL programme. It is based on the IRME project funded by STEVIN and hosted by the INL. If you wish to obtain the complete lexicon in XML format, please contact the the Dutch-Flemish HLT Agency (TST-Centrale); an initiative of the Dutch Language Union.

Contacts