Webster's defines truth as "the property (as of a statement) of being in accord with fact or reality." With historical studies truth is not easily ascertained, for "reality" is the product of historical research into a past that is no longer available. Thus it is a reconstructed reality and always heuristic in its conclusions. Moreover, since all history!writing is interpretive at heart, true o...

This paper reports on a treebanking project where eight different modern Chinese translations of the Bible are syntactically analyzed. The trees are created through dynamic treebanking which uses a parser to produce the trees. The trees have been going through manual checking, but corrections are made not by editing the tree files but by re-generating the trees with an updated grammar and dicti...