Tools Overview

This is a collection of tools based on the ETCBC database. They sit in their own repository, mostly, complete with documentation and data.

Verbal System in Poetry

Gino Kalkman: Verbal Forms in Biblical Hebrew Poetry: Poetical Freedom or Linguistic System? (Ph.D. thesis 2015). This tool contains a collection of notebooks in which Gino Kalkman presents his translations and analyses of the 150 Psalms in the Hebrew Bible and his theory on the use of the verbal forms in Biblical Hebrew poetry. View his website.

Trees (legacy)

This notebook composes syntax trees out of the ETCBC data. To this end, it imports the module etcbc.trees of LAF-Fabric, which contains the logic to synthesize trees from the data as it lies encoded in an EMDROS database and has been translated to LAF. etcbc.trees can also work for other data, such as the CALAP database of parts of the Syriac Peshitta. This notebook generates a tree for each sentence in the Hebrew Bible.

The results have been used for a Data Oriented Parsing experiment, which is reported in the Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal 4 (2014) 105-120; a copy is also archived at arxiv.org.