22.3989, Media: Discourse Analysis of Scripture

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LINGUIST List: Vol-22-3989. Wed Oct 12 2011. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 22.3989, Media: Discourse Analysis of Scripture

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Date: 12-Oct-2011
From: Brent Woo [bwoo at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Discourse Analysis of Scripture


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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:57:16
From: Brent Woo [bwoo at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Discourse Analysis of Scripture

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 Researchers are using computer programs to analyze the Torah and other scripture to possibly reveal something profound about authorship. 

"...researchers randomly mixed passages from the two Hebrew books of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, and asked the computer to separate them. . . the computer program was able to separate the passages with 99 percent accuracy. "

Read more: http://www.sciencecodex.com/read/ghostwriting_the_torah-79547 


Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics


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