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Menachem Katz

דיגיטלי סינופטי במאגר נוסח חילופי של סיווגםבו הגלומות והאפשרויות

Categorization of Textual Variants in Digital Synopses and its Research Potential

Menachem Katz Hillel Gershuni Academic Director

The Friedberg Jewish Manuscript Societyיד כתבי חקר לקידום העמותה

EVA / Minerva 2016 XIIth Conference, July 10th, Jerusalem

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Classical critical editionsSifre Bemidbar, Kahana (2011-2015)

Sifre Dvrarim, Finkelstein (1940)

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Various types of printed Talmudic variationsDikduke Sofrim Hashalem

Gemara Shlema, Nae Dikduke Sofrim, Rabinovich

Steinsaltz edition

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SynopsesLines synopsis – Bava Metzia, S.Y. Friedman

Columns synopsis – Yerushalmi, Tubingen

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Diplomatic and Photo editionsBavli A.z. – Ms. JTS Rab. 15, photo edition

Yerushalmi ms. Leiden, Hebrew Academy

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Digitized editions – A new era

Friedberg’s “Hachi Garsinan” project fully uses the advantages of the digitized edition: For the first time, we can offer various sorts of editions No lack of space Maximum flexibility

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High-Resolution image & Visual transcription –Photo edition AND diplomatic edition in one place

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The site can present 2 types of diplomatic edition:Visual

Transcript &Classical Transcript

Classical TranscriptVisual Transcript

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Columns Synopsis

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Lines Synopsis

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Textual variations on Vilna page

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How can we display only “major” variations?

If we present all of the variations, the significant data will be hard to notice within the noise.

If we present only what we think is “major”, we could miss variations that the user think is indeed major.

The difference between the types of users make the mission even harder.

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How detailed should it be? Two different approachesSifre Bemidbar, KahanaMishna Ketubbot, Brody

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The mission: Teaching the computer to single out the “major” variations

Bavli Ta’anit, 30a

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Taking the opposite direction: singling out the “minor” variations instead The computer cannot know which of the variations is major. We can teach it what variation is probably minor.

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Textual equivalencies

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Categories of Equivalency – Group A

Abbreviations and their full versions [ אמר' – [אמ Acronyms and their full versions [ פי" – על אף פ [אע Variations in the way numbers are written [ שלוש' – [ג Vocalizing vowels and their omission [ קיבל – [קבל The way of writing G-d's name [ ייי' – [ה Partial textual fault (tear or blurring) [ בראשית... – ת [בר Words joined together [ שלעולם – עולם [של Graphic variants [ כעבין – [כעכין Phonetic variants [ כאור – [כעור

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Categories of Equivalency – Group B

Linguistic variants [ עומדים – [עומדין Letters that signify prepositions and their omission לשם – ]

[שם Semantic variants [ נכרי – [גוי Variations in personal names [ ' לקיש – בן שמעון ר לקיש [ריש Variations in place names [ אלסכנדריה - [אלכסנדריה Shortening or lengthening of Verses (Psukim)

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Now we can emphasize the major changes

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…And also emphasize what other people would think is minor, but we think is the real deal

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What’s next?

Searching not only for words, but also for variations? Searching for frequent non-equivalent variations?

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רבינא רבא 790שמואל רב 661

אסי אמי 657יוסי יהודה 534

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מותרין מותר 792

כיצד צד זה כאי 787

שמעת שמע 680

חכמ' חכם 679

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כוכבים עובד נכרי 748

נכרים גוים 686

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Lines synopsis combined with categorization – a new powerful tool

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Menachem Katz

דיגיטלי סינופטי במאגר נוסח חילופי של סיווגםבו הגלומות והאפשרויות

Categorization of Textual Variants in Digital Synopses and its Research Potential

Menachem Katz Hillel Gershuni Academic Director

The Friedberg Jewish Manuscript Societyיד כתבי חקר לקידום העמותה

EVA / Minerva 2016 XIIth Conference, July 10th, Jerusalem