16-10-2019, 08:13 PM
(16-10-2019, 07:49 PM)davidjackson wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The author explains:
Quote:We started with the same initial conditions as those given in Equations (11) and (12) for the
transition matrix and the distribution of the state t=0. The probability matrix for the observation
states (the Voynich characters) was randomized in the usual way explained in Section 3.1.
In other words, he used initialised the HMM using results found from his previous analysis of an English language translation of Don Quijote (Equations (11) and (12) being biased for the English language text).
No, that's not correct. These are completely arbitrary initial conditions that are slightly off from 'all probabilities equal', to avoid that the process gets stuck from the very beginning.
The point about use of Eva is of course correct.
The publication isn't any breakthrough in any sense of the word, but there is a dearth of published studies of HMM analysis on the text.