Integrating Greek and English Digital Resources
The talk argued that integrating existing Greek and English digital resources could expand access to Greek New Testament scholarship for English-oriented readers and open up new analytical possibilities. It surveyed four resources — the ESV English-Greek Reverse Interlinear New Testament, OpenText.org's syntactically analyzed Greek New Testament, the Louw-Nida Greek-English Lexicon (organized by semantic domain rather than alphabetically), and WordNet — and showed how word-level alignment between the Reverse Interlinear and OpenText let English NLP tools operate on Greek text, and how mapping Louw-Nida's domain groupings onto WordNet's synset hierarchy could surface connections a Greek-only index would miss (e.g. tracing the English word "addiction" through WordNet back to a related Greek sense that Louw-Nida's own English index didn't index directly).
Presented while the speaker worked at Logos Bible Software, the talk framed resource integration itself as a research strategy — evaluating Greek analysis against a larger English backdrop, and extending narrower specialist resources like Louw-Nida with richer general-purpose ones like WordNet. It closes by naming open problems with the approach (part-of-speech mismatches between the two resources, domain-specific senses, ellipsis) rather than presenting the alignment as a finished system.