Presentation Type
Poster Presentation
Mentor/Supervising Professor Name
Alférez, Harvey
Abstract (Description of Research)
Studying the meaning of Hebrew and Greek words, lexical analysis, is a key step of the exegetical study of biblical texts. Meaning is tightly linked to usage, so studying meaning requires a deep grasp of the usage patterns of the word in question and its related words. Mainstream digital platforms lack tools to search for related words. Because of this, biblical scholars must rely on limited references in existing studies or manual review of a word’s occurrences to trace these relationships. To address this gap, we introduce GraphLex, an interactive data visualization app built with Streamlit, Python, and Text-Fabric. GraphLex builds a network of related lemmas based on semantic similarity and co-occurrence. This streamlines discovery of related Hebrew or Greek words in the biblical text.
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Words of a Feather: Mapping Distributional Relationships in Biblical Texts*
Studying the meaning of Hebrew and Greek words, lexical analysis, is a key step of the exegetical study of biblical texts. Meaning is tightly linked to usage, so studying meaning requires a deep grasp of the usage patterns of the word in question and its related words. Mainstream digital platforms lack tools to search for related words. Because of this, biblical scholars must rely on limited references in existing studies or manual review of a word’s occurrences to trace these relationships. To address this gap, we introduce GraphLex, an interactive data visualization app built with Streamlit, Python, and Text-Fabric. GraphLex builds a network of related lemmas based on semantic similarity and co-occurrence. This streamlines discovery of related Hebrew or Greek words in the biblical text.