27-02-2016, 04:52 PM
@sam
> If you can only reproduce some features of the VMS, but not all of them
What does 'all' mean? With 'all' as definition you can always add a new feature to your 'all'-list as long as the algorithm doesn't produce the same text as in the VMS. Yes, you can argue that the algorithm doesn't produce the same text. But all I want to do is to demonstrate that with the auto copy hypotheses it is possible to generate a text with similar features.
> Okay, but I think "words almost never begin with <e>" is also an important property of the text.
In the transcription such words exist:
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It would be an interesting question if all this words are transcription problems or not. Anyway, it would be no big deal to add a rule to the generator that prevents 'e' at the beginning of a word. But the question was if it is possible to generate a text with features similar to that of the VMS. Did you really think that for the answer to this question such a rule makes a big difference.
> Another thing is that your method requires some "seed" text to begin with, which you are taking from the VMS itself, but where does your VMS creator get his original text from?
The use of the script already requires that the scribe have practiced writing in that script before he started with the VMS. It was necessary to define all the characters used in the script before starting writing in that script. Therefore, I think that the scribe was starting on a page, which was later not added to the VMS. My guess would be that he started with a single word "daiin".
> If you can only reproduce some features of the VMS, but not all of them
What does 'all' mean? With 'all' as definition you can always add a new feature to your 'all'-list as long as the algorithm doesn't produce the same text as in the VMS. Yes, you can argue that the algorithm doesn't produce the same text. But all I want to do is to demonstrate that with the auto copy hypotheses it is possible to generate a text with similar features.
> Okay, but I think "words almost never begin with <e>" is also an important property of the text.
In the transcription such words exist:
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It would be an interesting question if all this words are transcription problems or not. Anyway, it would be no big deal to add a rule to the generator that prevents 'e' at the beginning of a word. But the question was if it is possible to generate a text with features similar to that of the VMS. Did you really think that for the answer to this question such a rule makes a big difference.
> Another thing is that your method requires some "seed" text to begin with, which you are taking from the VMS itself, but where does your VMS creator get his original text from?
The use of the script already requires that the scribe have practiced writing in that script before he started with the VMS. It was necessary to define all the characters used in the script before starting writing in that script. Therefore, I think that the scribe was starting on a page, which was later not added to the VMS. My guess would be that he started with a single word "daiin".