Biblical Hebrew Forum

[David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>]

Hi James,

If you're able, take a look at the following article:

Anstey, Matthew P. "Towards a Typological Presentation of Tiberian 
Hebrew." Hebrew Studies 46 (2005): 1-16. [It also appears as chapter 3 
of his dissertation: "Towards a Functional Discourse Grammar Analysis of 
Tiberian Hebrew." Published PhD diss., Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2006.]

The article presents the basic theory and analysis which would lie 
behind a software engine which would provide you with your IPA text, or, 
if desired, Leipzig glossing. The author himself is working towards 
generating the whole OT in his proposed format, but it is still in progress.

Regards,
David Kummerow.


> Thanks for your reply Kevin. Its not a quest for
> anything more 'accurate'. Its a quest for phonetic
> representation that can be used universally with all
> other languages. An engine that processes transliterations
> would have to have different logic for each language
> and each transliteration system and would be a beast
> to write and maintain. I could write an engine which
> attempts to parse a text into a phonetic representation
> but as you have noted textual ambiguities would greatly
> increase the complexity of such a parsing algorithm.
> That is why I was hoping that somebody had already
> made an attempt so that I could benefit from work
> already done.