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- Title
Application of elementary probability models for text homogeneity and segmentation: A case study of Bible.
- Authors
Abebe, Berhane
- Abstract
For the purpose of this study, A statistical test of Biblical books was conducted using the recently discovered probability models for text homogeneity and text change point detection. Accordingly, translations of Biblical books of Tigrigna and Amharic (major languages spoken in Eritrea and Ethiopia) and English were studied. A Zipf-Mandelbrot distribution with a parameter range of 0.55 to 0.88 was obtained in these three Bibles. According to the statistical analysis of the texts' homogeneity, the translation of Bible in each of these three languages was a heterogeneous concatenation of different books or genres. Furthermore, an in-depth examination of the text segmentation of prat of a single genre—the English Bible letters revealed that the Pauline letters are heterogeneous concatenations of two homogeneous segments.
- Subjects
ERITREA; ETHIOPIA; BIBLE; BIBLICAL studies; HOMOGENEITY; ENGLISH letters; CHANGE-point problems; BIBLICAL translations; BIBLE. Epistles of Paul; PROBABILITY theory
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2024, Vol 19, Issue 6, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0303432