A comparative dynamical analysis of Hebrew texts

DOI10.1155/S1026022600000273MaRDI QIDQ5929113zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Abraham Boyarsky, Paweł Góra

Publication date 2000

Published in Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/125507

zbMATH Keywords

Text analysis, Markov chains, Entropy, Dynamical systems, Mutual information

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of dynamical systems (37N99) Linguistics (91F20)

Review text

Summary: Three Hebrew texts, one of them the Hebrew bible, are investigated using dynamical analysis. First, the average mutual information for each of the texts is determined. The first minimum occurs at \(T=3\) in all three cases, suggesting that 3-letter words are sufficient to study the dynamical properties of the texts. Using 3-letter words as the state space for each of the text, we construct a Markov chain model and compute the relative measure-theoretic entropy for each of the texts and use this tool as a means of comparing the information content of the three texts.

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