BibleGrapevine Dynamic Linguistic Exploration of the Bible Andi Wu Global Bible Initiative
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BibleGrapevineDynamic Linguistic Exploration of the Bible
Andi WuGlobal Bible Initiative
Global Bible Initiative • Formerly “Asia Bible Society”
Our mission:“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:19-20 (ESV)
“Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.”Mark 16:15 (ESV)
Global Bible InitiativeOur work:• Bible translation: Chinese, Cambodian (Khmer), Burmese, Hindi,
Punjabi, Japanese• Biblical Research with particular focus on Linguistic Analysis of
source language data • Linguistic Research with particular focus on the relations between
source languages and target languages• Software Development Platform to support the translation process• The BibleGrapevine website
BibleGrapevineMaking the data available for linguistic research in the Bible
A website where Biblical scholars and students can explore the linguistic features and structures of the original Biblical texts and their translations.
Linguistic data deployed so far• Trees – representation of syntactic structures
o Hebrew OT treeso Greek NT treeso Chinese trees of Bible translationso English trees of Bible translations
• Tree alignmento Alignment between source language trees and translation trees to represent
correspondences at all levelso Alignment between translations through the source languages
TreesRepresentation of syntactic structures• Layers of word groups
o Wordso Phraseso Clauseso Sentences
• Syntactic relations between words
Hebrew OT Trees
Greek NT Trees
Chinese Trees
English Trees
Tree Alignment
Tree AlignmentCorrespondence at all levels of syntactic structures• Words• Phrases• Clauses• SentencesTypes of Correspondence• One-to-one• One-to-many• Many-to-one• Many-to-many
Tree Alignment (sentence, one-to-one)
Tree Alignment (phrase, one-to-one)
Tree Alignment (phrase-to-words, one-to-many)
BibleGrapevineWhat distinguishes BibleGrapevine from other Bible study websites?• Focus on linguistic aspects of the Bible• Linguistic Units in different granularities• Detailed analysis of translations• Refined links between translations and original texts• Data visualization• Intelligent search
BibleGrapevineFeatures developed so far:• Basic Views• Interlinear Views• Reference Views• Tree Views• Translation Memory Views• Concordance Views
BibleGrapevineFeatures to be developed:• Search for similar linguistic units• Word Sense Exploration
BibleGrapevineDemo• Site still under development; not public yet• Test data only: Matthew and John
Bible Map (all books)
Bible Map (New Testament)
Bible Map (Book of Matthew)
Basic View
Pronunciation
Other Word Attributes• Morphology• Strong Number• Gloss• Definitions to be added later
Layers of Linguistic Units
Reference ViewTo view more than two versions in parallel:
Interlinear ViewTraditional interlinear: word-based
o Not easy to represent one-to-many, many-to-many correspondences
o Hard to represent correspondences between discontinuous unitso Not easy to see correspondences between bigger chunks of text
Dynamic interlinear: variable linguistic unitso Easy to see correspondences between any units
Interlinear View
One-to-Many
Many-to-Many
Discontinuous Units
Bigger Chunks
Tree View
Tree View
Tree View
Parallel Tree View
Translation Memory View
Translation Memory View
TM View with Concordance
TM View with Concordance
Filters
Filters
Bigger Units
Bigger Units
Search Options• Surface text: received the gifts• Analyzed text: receive the gift• Keyword: received gifts• Analyzed keyword: receive gift
• Surface text: 接受了礼物• Analyzed text: 接受 了 礼物• Keyword: 接受礼物• Analyzed keyword: 接受 礼物Cat: noun, verb, adj, adv, etc.
Links to Translation MemoryWe can select any unit in any view to have its translation memory and concordance displayed
Links from Basic View
Links from interlinear view
Links from tree view
Links from concordance
Next?Search for similar words, phrases, clauses and sentences• Beyond identical texts: similar words in similar syntactic relations• Probabilistic: results ranked by similarity scores• Search item: type in the search box or select any chunk of text from
any viewsExplore Word Senses• Translations as reflecting different senses of words
Questions• Who do you think will be the main users of this website?• Which views are more useful to the users?• What additional views/functionalities are desirable?