[Article] Voynich2Vec: Using FastText Word Embeddings for Voynich Decipherment

[MichelleL11]

I would have liked to have seen data similar to Table 1 from a text we knew the meaning.  They say that the program does more than just link words that are spelled similarly - but there’s nothing in the data presented that shows me anything more than that.

But assuming that the program is more than a fancy way to match similar looking words, what do these results mean for the Voynich?  That every single pair of linked words look so similar to each other?  It makes me suspicious that either this program doesn’t really find “meaning” or, on the flip side, there is no meaning to be found in the manuscript beyond some sort of visual patterning.  Perhaps a patterning to look like language but isn’t. I really, really don’t want such a result but l’m having trouble seeing another way to interpret findings like this.  If someone can provide a different way to see it, l’d love to hear their thoughts.