[Article] A possible generating algorithm of the Voynich manuscript

[Torsten]

There is nothing too concrete on how new words are introduced. Just *that* this happens.

A new word is generated like any other word. It is generated by copying and varying words already written.

For instance <chedy> is introduced on page f32r. The word before <chedy> is <tchey>. To introduce <chedy> it was only necessary to repeat <chey> and to ad a <d> before <y>. 
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More importantly: if the text in the MS was *really* generated using an auto-copying process, it should be possible to pinpoint examples of this throughout the text. Lots and lots of concrete examples. 

This is possible for every page. See section You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. "Graphs for individual pages" on "You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.". You can convince yourself that always tokens with high structural similarity appear preferably in close vicinity of each other. Just click on the links to voynichese.com in section You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..

There would be no need to generate a tool to simulate this behaviour.

The tool is used to demonstrate that by using this method it is possible to reproduce the statistical key properties of the Voynich manuscript.

It would also be possible to produce some key statistics like:
which percentage of words is a modification with edit distance 1 of a recent word, for different definitions of 'recent'. 

This is explained on page 5: "Figure 2 shows the resulting network, connecting 6,796 out of 8,026 words (=84.67%)."

This is a key value. If this percentage is high, say 80%, then the theory is clearly describing a relevant fraction of the text. If it is low, say 20%, then the theory is *not* describing a relevant fraction of the text. In fact, the vast majority of the text would remain unexplained by the theory.

There is only one giant network connecting all frequently used word types. Only You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (=2.85 %) differ in more then two glyphs to all other word types. They occur only once. Moreover, even for this 229 word types it is usually possible to split them into two or more words also occurring in the VMS. Two words of this kind are <okeokeokeody> and <okeeolkcheey>. It is for instance possible to split this two words into <okeo>+<keo>+<keody> and <okeeol>+<kcheey>. There is simply no word that is not similar to at least one other words. The key value your are asking for is therefore at least 97.15 %.