On 04/30/2012 06:47 AM, Daniel Owens wrote:
The related discussion about TEI markup and lexicon keys raises another
issue: lemma systems.
Currently the only defined lemma system is "strong". It is easy to
connect to, but we need to move beyond it. I have several questions: 1.
Should we define new lemma systems? 2. How can we make such lemma
systems interoperable, at least in a fuzzy way?
We have two or three other systems of lemmata defined for Greek. None
for Hebrew, that I recall.
1. Should we define new lemma systems?
The MorphGNT based on the SBL GNT (I have a module created from James
Tauber's Github repository last week) uses Greek lemma. The Westminster
Hebrew Morphology uses its own lemma in Hebrew. Should we define new
lemma systems such as: mgntlemma and whmlemma?
MorphGNT isn't a lemmatization system, so no, we should not define
mgntlemma. It employs two or three other lemmatization systems, but
James Tauber never replied when I asked him to identify them over a year
ago.
WHMLemma might be worthwhile on some level, as it does define a
lemmatization system.
A practical issue arises with whmlemma: Aramaic and Hebrew use the same
script. Currently lemma begin with @ for Hebrew and % for Aramaic.
Should we retain those or go with H for Hebrew and A for Aramaic?
Currently with Strongs there is no need for this difference because the
numbers distinguish the language, but when natural language keys are
used some system needs to be defined so that a lookup of a lemma in
Daniel 3 take you to the Aramaic portion of the lexicon not the Hebrew one.
The answer to your question depends on whether @ and % are
well-known/standard/expected prefixes for these lemmata, from the
perspective of the expected audience of this module. (I would say they
are, and so they should be retained as is.)
2. How can we make such lemma systems inter-operable, at least in a
fuzzy way?
Some mechanism needs to be created to connect the many lemma systems to
each other. It seems to me that Bible texts will follow one lemma scheme
or another, but why not create a system in which various lemma systems
can be connected? For example, H1 (strong) and @אָב (whmlemma) should be
easy to connect. If you look up H1 from KJV in a dictionary keyed to
whmlemma, it should take you to @אָב.
Link keys in a lexicon can point from one key value another entry, like
an alias. I don't know whether this works currently, but it used to.
So, you could assign both H0001 and @אָב as keys for a particular entry,
with one of the two keys being a link to the other.
--Chris
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