HELFI: a Hebrew-Greek-Finnish Parallel Bible Corpus with Cross-Lingual Morpheme Alignment
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.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2003.07456,
title = {HELFI: a Hebrew-Greek-Finnish Parallel Bible Corpus with Cross-Lingual Morpheme Alignment},
author = {Anssi Yli-Jyrä and Josi Purhonen and Matti Liljeqvist and Arto Antturi and Pekka Nieminen and Kari M. Räntilä and Valtter Luoto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.07456},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
8 pages, 3 tables, to appear in the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2020