# HELFI: a Hebrew-Greek-Finnish Parallel Bible Corpus with Cross-Lingual Morpheme Alignment

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07456 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.07456/

## Key facts

- Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 16 Mar 2020.

## Built on by (most cited first, 4 of 4)

- [Graph Algorithms for Multiparallel Word Alignment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.06283/) (2021)
- [Graph Neural Networks for Multiparallel Word Alignment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.08654/) (2022)
- [SilverAlign: MT-Based Silver Data Algorithm For Evaluating Word Alignment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.06207/) (2022)
- [Computer-Aided Modelling of the Bilingual Word Indices to the Ninth-Century Uchitel'noe evangelie](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.05579/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Twenty-five years ago, morphologically aligned Hebrew-Finnish and Greek-Finnish bitexts (texts accompanied by a translation) were constructed manually in order to create an analytical concordance (Luoto et al., 1997) for a Finnish Bible translation. The creators of the bitexts recently secured the publisher's permission to release its fine-grained alignment, but the alignment was still dependent on proprietary, third-party resources such as a copyrighted text edition and proprietary morphological analyses of the source texts. In this paper, we describe a nontrivial editorial process starting from the creation of the original one-purpose database and ending with its reconstruction using only freely available text editions and annotations. This process produced an openly available dataset that contains (i) the source texts and their translations, (ii) the morphological analyses, (iii) the cross-lingual morpheme alignments.