10-04-2017, 07:50 PM
(10-04-2017, 06:40 PM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.If I'm not mistaken, you imply that the Voynich author (or, rather, in this case, Voynich text-generator) effectively knew (not necessarily literally, but maybe through some "historical mechanism") the statistical characteristics of the text-to-be in advance. Moreover, you simplify his task by dealing not with individual glyphs, but with glyph groups.
Not quite. The author would just need to know the sort of words they wanted to generate, e.g. ykaiin, qokedy, qoteedy, okal, etc. but wouldn't have to care much about their weights, except to damp feedback. Then, draw up state tables either directly or through the intermediate stage of graphs, as I did (see figures 1 and 2 in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). Beyond the core vocabulary, graphs soon become unwieldy and they'd have to use tables. The word frequencies are just what they ended up with; it could have been otherwise and I'd have reverse-engineered different state transition tables.
I do deal with individual glyphs, though to some extent that depends how you define them. For example, I tokenize "qokeedy daiin" as "qo+k+e+e+d+y d+a+iin".