Searching the Bible Using NLP

Google for the Hebrew Bible

Tweaking Variables

The Power User

The Non-Power User

Entities

Samples

  • find clauses with על and כן and לא
  • find 2mp אהב in the minor prophets
  • find sentences with a 3fs perfect and a masculine noun in exodus
  • Exod plural verbs and משׁה
  • find אלהים and a 2mp imperative in the same sentence
  • find נכר in the piel with a pl noun

Pitfalls

Expectations
"what percentage of the time does a direct object marker with a reference to God occur before the verb"
 

Appropriate Usage
Bible references; composite person, number & gender
 

Data
clean, tagged, updating models

SBL-GERT-2019

By James Cuénod

SBL-GERT-2019

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