Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk>]

I've been toying with this idea for quite a few years now but never  
really got round to doing anything about it. I was hoping to do it for  
Greek as well. My basic plan was this.

1) Choose a fairly complete digital codex (e.g. Leningradis)
2) Run frequency counts on words, n-grams, phrases and natural  
language templates.
3) Run calculations which calculate the vocabulary driven roots to  
reading the tanakh and therefore empirically locating the optimal  
vocabulary path which will fastest take a student from zero to being  
able to read tanakh with minimal encounter of new words
4) Select the passages which, at each stage of the student's assumed  
vocabulary, present the least challenge in reading
5) From this information generate a vocabulary and reading driven course

If I were to start putting serious effort into designing and building  
this could the readers of the list give me some indication as to the  
following:

1) How many people would be interested in using such software personally?
2) Who would be willing to give it a try with their students?
3) Opinions on the right place for this kind of software in the  
classroom: Should this kind of thing be only used as a supplement to a  
traditional grammar course? Or would anybody consider basing a course  
on such a learning method?
4) What features would you like to see in the software? e.g. Would you  
like to be able to override system defaults and define your own  
translations of units?

James Christian Read

BSc Hons Computer Science (machine translation)
MSc Human Language Technology (distinction - machine translation)
MSc High Performance Computing (machine learning of multingual
translation tables in massively parallel environment)


Quoting George Athas <George.Athas AT moore.edu.au>:

> Hi all!
>
> In light of recent posts, I thought I'd put a few questions out there:
>
> (1) Which book did you use when you began to learn Hebrew?
>
> (2) If you are (or have been) an instructor, which book(s) do you   
> use in the classroom? Any pro's and con's?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> GEORGE ATHAS
> Moore Theological College (Sydney, Australia)
> www.moore.edu.au
>
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