TY - JOUR

T1 - Application of elementary probability models for text homogeneity and segmentation: A case study of Bible

AU - Abebe, Berhane

N1 - Abebe, B. Application of elementary probability models for text homogeneity and segmentation: A case study of Bible / B. Abebe // PLoS ONE. – 2024. – Vol. 19, No. 6. – P. e0303432. – DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0303432.

PY - 2024/6

Y1 - 2024/6

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Bible

KW - Models, Statistical

KW - Humans

KW - Probability

KW - Language

KW - Ethiopia

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UR - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38848327/

UR - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11161094/

U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0303432

DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0303432

M3 - Article

C2 - 38848327

VL - 19

SP - e0303432

JO - PLoS ONE

JF - PLoS ONE

SN - 1932-6203

IS - 6

M1 - e0303432

ER -