The Revision History of the Peshitta

Peshitta Primacists: There! Indisputable proof that the Peshitta has been revised! The paper trail is extensive:

(For those of you who are familiar with the "Peshitta Primacy" movement, you may find this image as amusing as I have. :-) )

Peace,
-Steve

HAADS: A Hebrew Aramaic abbreviation disambiguation system

First, I promise that I'll blog about the Hugoye Symposium soon. I've just been so busy. :-P

In the meantime, for all of you NLP enthusiasts who are also into Aramaic like me:

In many languages abbreviations are very common and are widely used in both written and spoken language. However, they are not always explicitly defined and in many cases they are ambiguous. This research presents a process that attempts to solve the problem of abbreviation ambiguity using modern machine learning (ML) techniques. Various baseline features are explored, including context-related methods and statistical methods. The application domain is Jewish Law documents written in Hebrew and Aramaic, which are known to be rich in ambiguous abbreviations. Two research approaches were implemented and tested: general and individual. Our system applied four common ML methods to find a successful integration of the various baseline features. The best result was achieved by the SVM ML method in the individual research, with 98.07% accuracy.

http://sciencia.org/stories/758882/HAADS_A_Hebrew_Aramaic_abbreviation_disambiguation_system.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencia%2FfOkO+%28Sciencia+-+Informatics%29

Peace,
-Steve

First Hygoye Syriac Symposium - Tomorrow!

If all goes well, I'll be at the first Hugoye Syriac Symposium tomorrow for most of the afternoon. Look out for the guy in a dark brown corduroy vest with watch fobs and a tweed cap. :-)

If something further goes crazy with the family and I cannot attend at the last minute, I'll be logged into the online attendance system all day and on Meebo (widget's on the left) to chat.

Back a number of years ago, I coded the alpha and early beta for the eBethArké Syriac Digital Library Project, which was a hell of a lot of fun. I can only say that I'll be ecstatic to see the brick-and-mortar Beth Mardutho Research Library first-hand.

Peace,
-Steve

Yah Ribon 'Alam

From PaleoJudaica (albeit a bit late from me):




Although it's a little funny to see Jewish Aramaic written in Estrangela (even when they do use Square "Hebrew" Script as well), it was overall a lot of fun. :-)

Peace,
-Steve

Picking Back Up

(Getting back on the proverbial horse.)

I've been out and off this blog for the past month or so due to a death in the family, and as such DARIUS and my other projects have been on hold.

However, I'm now trying to make a concerted effort to get back on top of things and I have some fun Aramaic-related stuff to share soon. :-)

Awesome DARIUS updates, victory against hackers messing with the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon, new jewelry designs, letters to the editor, crazy tattoos, more Sunday Static, and contests. :-)

Stay tuned. :-)

Peace,
-Steve