[jsword-devel] Bible Maps

[Joe Walker]

Hi,

A very simple best match search like JSword does - Take the text of a 
verse, for example "In the beginning ..." and run a "best match" query. 
The first match will probably be Gen 1:1, but the others are verses that 
contain similar language.
Behind the best match search is simply a stemming, multiple word search 
with result aggregation (if that isn't too wordy!)
It's late any I've just spent many hours getting a huge steel into our 
house to stop the roof falling down, so I'm tired, so sorry if the above 
paragraph makes no sense!

Joe.

Bobby Nations wrote:

> Joe,
>
> Strange and intriguing.  What criteria do you use to determine 
> similarity between disparate verses?
>
> Bobby
>
> Joe Walker wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Hope you will excuse the png in this email. I've just finished 
>> undoing the bit-rot on the old Project-B mapper project. The graphic 
>> below is a computer generated map of the Bible placing similar parts 
>> of the Bible closer together.
>>
>>
>>
>> There is a mapper project within JSword that calculated the above by 
>> taking each verse in the Bible in turn, searching for the text of 
>> that verse in the rest of the Bible to find what that is similar to. 
>> Having calculated an array of verse similarities we apply some rules 
>> to plot them on a 2D map.
>>
>> If you are interested to know more, give me a shout.
>>
>> Joe.
>>
>
>
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