[B-Greek] Inaccurate electronic versions
James Tauber
jtauber at jtauber.com
Thu Jan 25 06:46:35 EST 2007
I should also add, of particular relevance to you, that we are
working on an alternative to using Strong's numbers (or G/K for that
matter) as the primary key for lexical data.
James
On 25/01/2007, at 6:26 AM, James Tauber wrote:
>
> It's the lemmatization that I've mostly focused on over the last
> twelve years on and off.
>
> You are correct that the original CCAT database made available in
> 1993 has a lot of errors -- thousands, if you count instances.
>
> If you get the CCAT file from anywhere other than jtauber.com or
> morphgnt.org, you are probably getting either the original CCAT
> release from 1993 or one from around 1995 with my first round of
> corrections. It's the latter which Broman and others were making
> available (and which was the basis for the late Tony Fisher's site).
>
> However, many significant corrections have been made since then,
> especially in 2002 and since 2004.
>
> Since December 2005, I've been working with Ulrik Petersen (who in
> parallel to my CCAT/UBS work had been working on Tischendorf and
> other texts). We are working on integrating our data, the first
> fruits of which should be available soon.
>
> James
>
>
> On 24/01/2007, at 6:35 PM, Alan Bunning wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the info! I'll take a look and compare it with what I
>> have. I
>> certainly don't want to have to reinvent the wheel. It does look
>> like there
>> is some overlap. Let me know if anything I am doing can help your
>> cause. The
>> next thing I was planning on doing, was correcting the parsings and
>> roots
>> for those same texts. As I said, I barely got started and already
>> found a
>> tremendous number of errors. What sort of work have you done in
>> this regard?
>> I will certainly add the set you have to the mix when I compare them.
>
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