How to use the Qumran scrolls for NLP tasks using text-fabric

When I first started my thesis, I inherited the Dead Sea Scrolls project from another student in my lab. He provided a large file that looked something like this: I also inherited a complex spaghetti code that parsed this data into readable Hebrew text. These files (from the image above), were created by Martin Abegg and contain the raw text of the Dead Sea Scrolls, with morphological data on each…