NuBerea/distributional-lexicon

Distributional Sense Lexicon — Greek (archaic → Byzantine) + Latin + Hebrew

A corpus-driven sense lexicon of ancient Greek, Latin, and Biblical Hebrew that represents word meaning directly as the distribution of attested usage — graded sense membership, frequency mass, collocational profile, and diachronic drift — scaffolded on the Louw–Nida sense taxonomy. The Greek arm spans the full diachronic range from archaic/classical literature through the New Testament, Septuagint, Hellenistic-Jewish writings, and the patristic corpus into the Byzantine era; the Latin arm applies the same method to the Vulgate and patristic Latin; the Hebrew arm covers Biblical Hebrew on the Masoretic spine with Dead Sea Scrolls, Samaritan Pentateuch, and Aleppo witnesses. The three languages are joined on a shared Louw–Nida pivot for cross-language sense alignment.

The lexicon is calibrated and honest about uncertainty: fine intra-domain sense distinctions are hard for any current method, and the shipped tables carry per-occurrence confidence and abstention rather than false precision. Only openly licensed lexica ship in full; copyrighted reference works are represented by coverage facts and "see s.v." pointers only, never by their prose.

Full specification is gated. The complete dataset card — per-config schemas, join contracts, counts, methodology, and build provenance — lives in SPEC.md, available to approved users behind the repository gate. This public card carries the concept summary only.

License and attribution

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Key upstream sources and their licenses:

• MACULA Greek & MACULA Hebrew (Clear Bible) — https://github.com/Clear-Bible — CC BY 4.0 (gold Louw–Nida senses; attribution required)
• STEPBible data (Tyndale House) — https://github.com/STEPBible/STEPBible-Data — CC BY 4.0
• LSJ, Abbott-Smith, Lewis & Short, Forcellini, Du Cange, BDB, Jastrow — public domain lexica
• SDBH (UBS Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew) — CC BY-SA 4.0 © United Bible Societies — its content ships only in the share-alike companion repo NuBerea/sdbh, never in this repo
• Copyrighted lexica (BDAG, Lampe, HALOT, TLL) — no content reproduced here; coverage facts and pointers only

EU sui-generis database-right consideration applies on redistribution.