charbonnierg / bible-clusterer

Web application to perform clustering of text data on LXX and SBL Greek New Testament

Bible projecter project

Goal

The goal of this small application is to quickly vizualize textual similarities between the Bible books, its different chapters and its different verses, respectively taken from the LXX and the SBLGNT texts.

Data

All of the data used for clustering is taken from the SBLGNT morphological tagging made available here for the SBLGNT and from here for the LXX. Warmest of thanks to all those who have made this data freely available.

Method

The application performs a tf-idf vectorization of the selected SBLGNT texts, and then projects this data into a 3-Dimensional vizualization space using Principal Component Analysis.

Coming later

The next inquired features are:

• An easier to read representation of verses/chapters for large books
• The use of automatic decision tools to determine text groups
• Improved explainability tools

About the author

I have a master's in applied Mathematics and a PhD in computer science, and I've worked mostly on the use of artificial intelligence in order to optimize High Performance Computing system. I'm also a Bible studies enthusiast, hence this project at the intersection of my two hobbies !