Peter Brylov Christensen Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 (edited) Hi there! When I searched for a certain root "mlak" (angel/messenger) in the Ugaritic Data Bank, the results showed some lines where the wrong word - or even sign such as a bracket - is highlighted in red rather than mlak. But in spite of the faulty highlighting, it always occurred in lines where mlak was present. I sent in an error report immediately after discovering the problem with "mlak", but shortly after doing so, I did some more searches for random roots, where I noticed that the problem affects the entire database. When searching for e.g. "ʿnt" (ʿAnatu the goddess), one of the results show a line where the number "1" is highlighted, but the root "ʿnt" is not present: R1-1. 1:II:16 [yhbr . w yql . yt]ḥwyn . w y Here's another similar example where ":" is the only thing being highlighted without ʿnt being present: "00-1. 3:V:30 tḥmk . il . ḥkm[ . ]ḥkmk" I then decided to post a thread here as this is a much bigger issue than I first anticipated with way too many errors present for one error report. With kind regards Peter Christensen*EDIT* Here are the examples with "mlak"“R1-1. 2:I:41 [ak . ym . tʿ]dt . ṯpṭ . nhr . mlak . mṭ ḫr . yḥb̊[-----] 00-1. 2:I:41 [ ... tʿ]dt . ṯpṭ . nhr . mlak . mṭ ḫr . yḥb̊[ ... ]R1-1. 2:I:42 [------] . mlak . bn . ktpm . rgm . bʿlh . w . ẙ[------]00-1. 2:I:42 [ ... ] . mlak . bn . ktpm . rgm . bʿlh . w . ẙ[ … ] R1-1. 2:I:44 [------]dm . mlak . ym . t̊ʿdt . ṯpṭ . nh̊[r ----]00-1. 2:I:44 [ ... ]dm . mlak . ym . t̊ʿdt . ṯpṭ . nh̊[r ... ] Edited January 6, 2015 by Pchris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Brylov Christensen Posted January 7, 2015 Author Share Posted January 7, 2015 (edited) I guess what I wanted to ask was this: Is there enough time for the faulty search results/highlighting to be fixed before I begin the tagging project of the Data Bank (mid-April)? If not, I'll gladly take care of this, too - if possible. With kind regards Peter Christensen Edited January 7, 2015 by Pchris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Lang Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 The problem has already been fixed and should appear in an update soon. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Brylov Christensen Posted January 8, 2015 Author Share Posted January 8, 2015 Oh, great to hear that! Thank you very much for the update. With kind regards Peter Christensen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Palmer Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 The latest update is released and will appear in your Check for Updates. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Brylov Christensen Posted January 8, 2015 Author Share Posted January 8, 2015 (edited) It works much much better now - thank you very much! I did, however, notice that a few errors remain. When searching for the root gmr, this happens: 11-1.148:42 {[ ... ]m̊mr///-ogmr} .oš . sn̊[ ... ] 00-1.148:42 [ ... m]gmr[ . i]l̊ . sk[r . š ... ] Furthermore, when searching for gmr, the search function doesn't differentiate between gmr, gmrš, mgmr and tgmr like it's supposed to, with gmr being the root for "champion, fighter", gmrš being a personal name (possibly of Hurrian origin) with unknown meaning, mgmr being the name of a month, and tgmr being root for "totality, all". Additionally It doesn't matter whether you search for gmr or gmrš as it yields the same 14 results with 4 of them being gmr, 1 of them being ǵmr (which is to be expected due to the overlap of g and ǵ, thus not making it a part of the bug), 2 of them being mgmr, 2 of them being tgmr and 5 of them being gmrš. Here is the results list for gmr (and gmrš): R1-1. 2:I:46 [nhr ----] h̊wt . gmr [.] hd . lwn̊/åẙ [-------o] 00-1. 2:I:46 [nhr ... ]-- . h̊wt . gmr[ . ]hd . lwn̊ẙ . [ ... ] 11-1.148:42 {[ ... ]m̊mr///-ogmr} .oš . sn̊[ ... ] 00-1.148:42 [ ... m]gmr[ . i]l̊ . sk[r . š ... ] 00-4. 74: 4 gmr[ ... ] R1-4. 75:IV: 7 gmrš̊ [ . b]n̊ . mrnn 00-4. 75:IV: 7 gmrš̊[ . b]n̊ . mrnn 00-4.214:IV: 1 ǵmr 00-4.271: 3 [t]g̊mr . akl . b̊ . [ ... ] 00-4.290:17 t[gmr] . ksp 00-4.313:18 ṯlṯ . ʿl . gmrš ... [ ... ] 00-4.316: 1 [ ... y]rḫ . m[gmr ... ] R1-4.422:41 bn . gmrš [ ... ] 00-4.422:41 bn . gmrš[ ... ] I did some more testing, but these were the only errors I could find. The rest of the Data Bank appears to function as it should. With kind regards Peter Christensen Edited January 8, 2015 by Pchris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen Brown Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Peter, the highlighting errors are errors, but this is not a tagged database. Therefore the searches are simply for words and strings of letters, it cannot distinguish between different roots or meanings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Brylov Christensen Posted January 9, 2015 Author Share Posted January 9, 2015 (edited) Still, there must be some sort of differentiation going on. If I, for instance, search for the root "ksp", silver, I don't get inflected results as shown in the example below: 00-4.132: 1 alpm . pḥm . ḫmš . mat . kbd 00-4.132: 2 bd . tt . w . ṯlṯ . ktnt . bdm . tt 00-4.132: 2a __________ -918- 00-4.132: 3 w . ṯmnt . ksp . hn 00-4.132: 3a __________ 00-4.132: 4 ktn . d . ṣr . pḥm . bh . w . ṯqlm 00-4.132: 5 ksph . mitm . pḥm . bd . skn 00-4.132: 6 w . ṯt . ktnm . ḫmšt . w . nṣp . ksp . hn 00-4.132: 7 (R:hn) Notice in line 5 that ksph (marked in blue) is not a part of the results for ksp, which is to be expected as the Data Bank isn't tagged yet. I'd have to search for ksph in order to find it. By the same logic, gmrš should not show up in the gmr search, except it does. When I search for ksp, I can see from the list of suggested words that it differentiates between ksp and ksph. That is also the case with gmr and gmrš. This is why I mentioned gmrš, mgmr and tgmr as errors as they do not belong there but rather in searches for gmrš mgmr and tgmr. With kind regards Peter Christensen Edited January 9, 2015 by Pchris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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