Papers by Gideon Yoffe
A Statistical Exploration of Text Partition Into Constituents: The Case of the Priestly Source in the Books of Genesis and Exodus (2023.findings-acl)
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Gideon Yoffe, Axel Bühler, Nachum Dershowitz, Thomas Romer, Eli Piasetzky, Israel Finkelstein, Barak Sober
| Challenge: | Existing versions of the Hebrew Bible are a result of various editorial actions, such as additions, redactions, and other factors. |
| Approach: | They propose a statistical stylometric pipeline for a hypothesized partition of a text. |
| Outcome: | The proposed pipeline detects literary features yielding the optimal overlap between hypothesized and unsupervised partitions while conserving implicit correlations between units of text that are more likely to be grouped. |