HELFI: a Hebrew-Greek-Finnish Parallel Bible Corpus with Cross-Lingual Morpheme Alignment

Anssi Yli-Jyrä; Josi Purhonen; Matti Liljeqvist; Arto Antturi; Pekka Nieminen; Kari M. Räntilä; Valtter Luoto

HELFI: a Hebrew-Greek-Finnish Parallel Bible Corpus with Cross-Lingual Morpheme Alignment

Anssi Yli-Jyrä, Josi Purhonen, Matti Liljeqvist, Arto Antturi, Pekka Nieminen, Kari M. Räntilä, Valtter Luoto

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Abstract

Twenty-five years ago, morphologically aligned Hebrew-Finnish and Greek-Finnish bitexts (texts accompanied by a translation) were constructed manually in order to create an analytical concordance (Luoto et al., 1997) for a Finnish Bible translation. The creators of the bitexts recently secured the publisher's permission to release its fine-grained alignment, but the alignment was still dependent on proprietary, third-party resources such as a copyrighted text edition and proprietary morphological analyses of the source texts. In this paper, we describe a nontrivial editorial process starting from the creation of the original one-purpose database and ending with its reconstruction using only freely available text editions and annotations. This process produced an openly available dataset that contains (i) the source texts and their translations, (ii) the morphological analyses, (iii) the cross-lingual morpheme alignments.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Editors	Nicoletta Calzolari [et al.]
Number of pages	8
Place of Publication	Paris
Publisher	European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Publication date	May 2020
Pages	4229–4236
ISBN (Electronic)	979-10-95546-34-4
Publication status	Published - May 2020
MoE publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	Language Resources and Evaluation Conference - [LREC 2020 was cancelled] Duration: 11 May 2020 → 16 May 2020 Conference number: 12 https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/

Fields of Science

6121 Languages
parallel texts
morphemes
word alignment
614 Theology
bible translation
exegetics
text criticism
text editions
6122 Literature studies
most translated books
world literature
text editions

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Yli-Jyrä, A., Purhonen, J., Liljeqvist, M., Antturi, A., Nieminen, P., Räntilä, K. M., & Luoto, V. (2020). HELFI: a Hebrew-Greek-Finnish Parallel Bible Corpus with Cross-Lingual Morpheme Alignment. In N. Calzolari [et al.] (Ed.), Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (pp. 4229–4236). European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

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HELFI: a Hebrew-Greek-Finnish Parallel Bible Corpus with Cross-Lingual Morpheme Alignment. / Yli-Jyrä, Anssi; Purhonen, Josi; Liljeqvist, Matti et al.
Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. ed. / Nicoletta Calzolari [et al.]. Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2020. p. 4229–4236.

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HELFI: a Hebrew-Greek-Finnish Parallel Bible Corpus with Cross-Lingual Morpheme Alignment

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FABC: The Finnish Analytical Bible Concordance Project

HELFI::Greek1904 -- The Greek New Testament with Lemma and Morphology Data

HELFI::Hebrew1008 -- The Hebrew Bible with Lemma and Morphology Data

HELFI::Finnish1938 - The Finnish 1933/1938 Bible Translation with lemmas, morphology and cross-lingual morpheme alignment

The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Engineering and Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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HELFI: a Hebrew-Greek-Finnish Parallel Bible Corpus with Cross-Lingual Morpheme Alignment

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FABC: The Finnish Analytical Bible Concordance Project

Datasets

HELFI::Greek1904 -- The Greek New Testament with Lemma and Morphology Data

HELFI::Hebrew1008 -- The Hebrew Bible with Lemma and Morphology Data

HELFI::Finnish1938 - The Finnish 1933/1938 Bible Translation with lemmas, morphology and cross-lingual morpheme alignment

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The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Engineering and Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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