De-Inflection Software?

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Sep 21 17:31:15 EDT 2002


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From: "Peter Kirby" <kirby at earthlink.net>
To: Biblical Greek <b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: [b-greek] De-Inflection Software?
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 12:59:11 -0700

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard A. Stauch" <rstauch at charter.net>
To: "Biblical Greek" <b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 9:51 AM
Subject: [b-greek] ENESTERNISMENOI (Was: De-Inflection Software?)

> I hope that makes my need plain. I do want to learn to read the Greek
> for pleasure and study, but I need something that can fill in for my
> lack as I sit, now. If it does not already exist, I will begin the
> project myself.

I have been holding back from posting the link because the Unbound Bible
site has been down.  But before you start on such a project, you might like
to know that the folks there have made a CGI application that will parse
words in the New Testament to show the root word and the inflection
information such as gender, number, tense, etc.

http://unbound.biola.edu/greek_search/index.cfm?lang=English

And this link is to show that the link above worked once.

http://www.google.com/search?q=greek+parser

Hopefully you can bookmark the web page and find that the link works in a
few days.

If you do decide to write a parser program, please get in touch.  I and
someone I know would be interested in collaborating so as to make a
Greek-to-English program similar to Whitaker's one for Latin.

http://users.erols.com/whitaker/words.htm

I agree that such tools are useful as an aid to learning and as a crutch
while one's knowledge is still imperfect.  People are allowed to use a
computer without being a programmer, or to make web pages without knowing
HTML, so they should be permitted to struggle through Greek without being
fluent, and any tools that can help them are good.

best,
Peter Kirby

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Carl W. Conrad
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