Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Petr Tomasek <tomasek AT etf.cuni.cz>]

I had another Idea:
 1) make vocabulary according to the roots
(shouldn't be hard if we take the WTS text with analysis).
 2) choose verbal roots;
 3) mark roots which belong to particular verb class (פ״נ, ל״ה, ע״יו...)
 4) make a search engine that will look for text that contain
specific verb class(es) and do not containt other (/specific) ones.


On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 09:21:42AM +0100, James Read wrote:
> 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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