Finding Answers from the Word of God: Domain Adaptation for Neural Networks in Biblical Question Answering [PDF]
, 2018 Question answering (QA) has significantly benefitted from deep learning techniques in recent years. However, domain-specific QA remains a challenge due to the significant amount of data required to train a neural network.
Liu, Jiamou, Zhao, Helen Jiahe
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LAF-Fabric: a data analysis tool for Linguistic Annotation Framework with an application to the Hebrew Bible [PDF]
Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal, Volume 4,
December 2014, pp. 105-109, 2014 The Linguistic Annotation Framework (LAF) provides a general, extensible stand-off markup system for corpora. This paper discusses LAF-Fabric, a new tool to analyse LAF resources in general with an extension to process the Hebrew Bible in particular.
Kalkman, Gino +3 more
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Using boundaries to find smooth norms [PDF]
Studia Mathematica 224 (2014), 169-181, 2013 The aim of this paper is to present a tool used to show that certain Banach spaces can be endowed with $C^k$ smooth equivalent norms. The hypothesis uses particular countable decompositions of certain subsets of $B_{X^*}$, namely boundaries. Of interest is that the main result unifies two quite well known results.
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Winston Peters “Puts His Hand to the Plow”: The Bible in New Zealand Political Discourse [PDF]
, 2016 This article examines the charismatic New Zealand politician Winston Peters’ sparse use of the Bible as a case study in the propagation of the “Cultural” and “Liberal” Bibles across the relatively irreligious landscape of New Zealand’s political ...
Robert Myles
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User Study for Improving Tools for Bible Translation [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Technology has increasingly become an integral part of the Bible translation process. Over time, both the translation process and relevant technology have evolved greatly. More recently, the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has made great progress in solving some problems previously thought impenetrable.
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Comparative Study of Ethics in Librarianship and the Bible
, 2016 This paper is a comparative study that discusses ethical issues in librarianship and the Bible. Such issues include: Laws in librarianship vs. laws in the Bible; censorship in librarianship vs.
Yaya, Japheth Abdulazeez
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Evaluating prose style transfer with the Bible [PDF]
Royal Society open science 5.10 (2018): 171920, 2017 In the prose style transfer task a system, provided with text input and a target prose style, produces output which preserves the meaning of the input text but alters the style. These systems require parallel data for evaluation of results and usually make use of parallel data for training.
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Snow Mountain: Dataset of Audio Recordings of The Bible in Low Resource Languages [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has increasing utility in the modern world. There are a many ASR models available for languages with large amounts of training data like English. However, low-resource languages are poorly represented. In response we create and release an open-licensed and formatted dataset of audio recordings of the Bible in low ...
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Artificial intelligence based writer identification generates new evidence for the unknown scribes of the Dead Sea Scrolls exemplified by the Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa) [PDF]
PLoS ONE 2021, 2020 The Dead Sea Scrolls are tangible evidence of the Bible's ancient scribal culture. Palaeography - the study of ancient handwriting - can provide access to this scribal culture. However, one of the problems of traditional palaeography is to determine writer identity when the writing style is near uniform.
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Ninety-Sixth Annual Report of the Charleston Bible Society [PDF]
, 1906 PRESENTED AT THE Annual Meeting, January 22, 1906. THE DAGGETT PRINTING CO., CHARLESTON, S. C.
The Charleston Bible Society
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