Intro: James Candan, Software Engineer
Posted: September 16th, 2016, 12:53 pm
Hello,
I'm a web application developer in Chattanooga, TN, working primarily in PHP on data migrations, content management systems, and data visualization applications. I relocated here with my wife and daughter in late 2010, early 2011, from Los Angeles, where we were blessed with a rambunctious, loving son.
My interest is in using Python's extensive scientific libraries in machine learning and artificial intelligence, in combination with natural language processing libraries (NLTK) in practical applications for compiling data, research tools, etc. I've just met with a local scholar, Dr. James Price, with whom I hope to work in porting some of his work in Pascal to Python. He was the Old Testament Executive Editor and Chairman of the Executive Review Committee of the New King James Version of the Bible (NKJV) and a translator and section editor for the Holman Christian Standard Bible. His work is in using computational analysis to generate a genealogical relational tree, most recently from NA28. I also hope to assist him in generating a concordance for the Bible in Bengali.
I have no experience in this field, but hope I can learn and contribute. I am curious if anyone can offer a glimpse of the current landscape in textual criticism and analysis using NLP, or other computational applications, particularly in terms of Biblical TC. Is there an existing recognition of the value of computational analysis in the Church? If yes, how and where can I begin to contribute and learn? If not, is there anyone else here interested in doing this kind of work?
I'm a web application developer in Chattanooga, TN, working primarily in PHP on data migrations, content management systems, and data visualization applications. I relocated here with my wife and daughter in late 2010, early 2011, from Los Angeles, where we were blessed with a rambunctious, loving son.
My interest is in using Python's extensive scientific libraries in machine learning and artificial intelligence, in combination with natural language processing libraries (NLTK) in practical applications for compiling data, research tools, etc. I've just met with a local scholar, Dr. James Price, with whom I hope to work in porting some of his work in Pascal to Python. He was the Old Testament Executive Editor and Chairman of the Executive Review Committee of the New King James Version of the Bible (NKJV) and a translator and section editor for the Holman Christian Standard Bible. His work is in using computational analysis to generate a genealogical relational tree, most recently from NA28. I also hope to assist him in generating a concordance for the Bible in Bengali.
I have no experience in this field, but hope I can learn and contribute. I am curious if anyone can offer a glimpse of the current landscape in textual criticism and analysis using NLP, or other computational applications, particularly in terms of Biblical TC. Is there an existing recognition of the value of computational analysis in the Church? If yes, how and where can I begin to contribute and learn? If not, is there anyone else here interested in doing this kind of work?