I have now 'finished' Job in my test cases. I came across several inconsistencies in my own work and from this exercise, I was able to both identify them and correct them. So there is some value to this very detailed work. I also now have identified 25 instances where there are inconsistent mappings from the pointed to the unpointed text. I have put these in an error table so I don't have to keep looking at them.
My assumption is that the relationship between source and result is a single valued function not a multi-valued relation. I don't see why detailed language of this sort should not work that way at a word form level including consonants and vowels. (Essentially I am not allowing homonyms at this level. None of the inconsistencies I have seen involve a homonym: i.e. a word with the same sound and same form, but a different domain.) And as for the accents, the music is independent, a 'separate magisterium' from the consonants and vowels. True, one could change the pointing, but I don't want to make that assumption.
I now have about 25% of the words in my test data and examples of about half the stems. By the time I am finished should I be so lucky, I should be able to reduce the complexity of the algorithms further. So far reasoning by vowel, by stem, and prefix/suffix works - but it seems too complex still. I suspect rules related to possessives, and binyanim should be able to be articulated. But I note that either qamats or holem may play the same role in, for instance, a participle, so simplification is not obvious yet.
It is likely that the human brain / mind / or whatever, is capable of as much memorization as a computer algorithm. So complexity may be the rule, and not simplicity.
List of inconsistent mappings in the conversion of the WLC to unpointed spelling. In each case these are unique values that are different from at least one other instance and sometimes several other examples in the test data.
Reference |
Stem |
Word Form |
Pref/ \suff |
Maleh |
Calc. Value |
The Word |
Domain |
Gloss |
|
1 Samuel 001:09(04) |
aclh |
acl\h |
aoclh |
aclh |
אָכְלָ֥ה |
EAT |
אכלה she had eaten |
||
Micah 006:01(06) |
amr |
amr |
amr |
aomr |
אֹמֵ֑ר |
SPEAK |
אמר is saying |
||
Esther 009:25(17) |
atv |
at\v |
atv |
aoto |
אֹת֛וֹ |
PARTICLE |
אתו him |
||
Hosea 013:15(03) |
bn |
bn |
bin |
bn |
בֵּ֥ן |
FAMILY |
בן child among |
||
Ezekiel 016:04(06) |
crt |
crt |
-cort |
-crt |
־כָרַּ֣ת |
CUT |
כרת cut |
||
Psalms 119:23(05) |
ndbrv |
n/dbr\v |
nidbrv |
ndbru |
נִדְבָּ֑רוּ |
SPEAK |
נדברו they spoke |
||
Psalms 034:14(05) |
mdbr |
m/dbr |
mdbr |
midbr |
מִדַּבֵּ֥ר |
SPEAK |
מדבר from speaking |
||
Psalms 034:11(04) |
vdrwi |
v/drw\i |
vdrwi |
vdorwi |
וְדֹרְשֵׁ֥י |
SEEK |
ודרשׁי but those
searching for |
||
Psalms 068:27(04) |
ihvh |
ihvh |
advnii |
ihvh |
יְ֝הוָ֗ה |
GOD |
יהוה Yahweh |
||
Jeremiah 038:17(19) |
vkith |
v/ki\th |
vkiith |
vkiit |
וְחָיְתָ֣ה |
LIFE |
וחיתה then will
live |
||
Job 019:06(02) |
apv |
a/p\v |
-aipva |
-aipo |
־אֵ֭פוֹ |
PLACE |
אפו here |
||
Job 011:08(04) |
tpyl |
t/pyl |
-tpyl |
-tpyol |
־תִּפְעָ֑ל |
WORK |
תפעל work will you
do |
||
Qohelet 001:18(04) |
rb |
rb |
rvb |
rb |
רָב |
MEASURE |
רב there is much |
||
Job 019:28(04) |
nrdp |
n/rdp |
-nrdvf |
-nrdf |
־נִּרְדָּף |
VIOLENCE |
נרדף do we
persecute |
||
Genesis 011:07(11) |
ryhv |
ryh\v |
ryhu |
riyhu |
רֵעֵֽהוּ |
FAMILY |
רעהו his
associate's |
||
Genesis 011:03(04) |
ryhv |
ryh\v |
-ryhu |
-riyhu |
־רֵעֵ֗הוּ |
FAMILY |
רעהו his associate |
||
Job 042:10(08) |
ryhv |
ryh\v |
riyihv |
riyhu |
רֵעֵ֑הוּ |
FAMILY |
רעהו his friends |
||
Job 030:10(01) |
tybvni |
tyb\vni |
tiybvni |
tybuni |
תִּֽ֭עֲבוּנִי |
SIN |
תעבוני they abhor me |
||
Job 024:15(03) |
wmrh |
wmr\h |
wmrh |
womrh |
שָׁ֤מְרָֽה |
PROTECT |
שׁמרה watches for |
||
Job 010:12(06) |
wmrh |
wmr\h |
wmrh |
womrh |
שָֽׁמְרָ֥ה |
PROTECT |
שׁמרה guards |
||
Psalms 119:16(01) |
wmrh |
wmr\h |
wmrh |
womrh |
שָֽׁמְרָ֣ה |
PROTECT |
שׁמרה shelters |
||
Psalms 037:06(04) |
vmwp+c |
vm/wp+\c |
vmwp'tç |
umwp'tiç |
וּ֝מִשְׁפָּטֶ֗ךָ |
JUDGMENT |
ומשׁפטך and your
judgment |
||
1 Samuel 001:09(07) |
wth |
wth |
wth |
wtoh |
שָׁתֹ֑ה |
EAT |
שׁתה she had
imbibed |
||
Job 014:03(05) |
yinc |
yin\c |
yinç |
yiniç |
עֵינֶ֑ךָ |
BODYPART |
עינך your eye |
||
Habakkuk 003:09(01) |
yrih |
yr\ih |
yrih |
yriih |
עֶרְיָ֤ה |
LIGHT |
עריה exposed |
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