25-09-2020, 12:29 PM
I am aware of two older studies into long-range text correlations.
Both are mentioned at this web page (which still requires a lot of work):
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There was the Letter Serial Correlation (LSC) analysis by McKay and Perakh. The latter was quite interested in the Voynich MS, and had found a sponsor for funding the digitisation of the MS well before the time that the Beinecke did this. However, this was never agreed with the library.
Anyway, the conclusion was that the MS text exhibits a typical curve for meaningful texts, that disappears as soon as one scrambles the words. However, since the underlying process is not completely understood, it was not real 'proof' of meaning in the MS.
The other was a 2001 paper by Gabriel Landini. He noted a peak in the spectral analysis that corresponds approximately with the average line length of the MS text. This seemed to be a manifestation of Currier's 'Line as a functional Unit' observation.
In the paper by Andreas Schinner of 2007, the anomalous random walk behaviour could tentatively be explained by 'something unexpected happening' at each line transition, i.e. another manifestation of Currier's "LAAFU", but this is very far from clear. It is also beyond my state of knowledge of such processes.
Both are mentioned at this web page (which still requires a lot of work):
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
There was the Letter Serial Correlation (LSC) analysis by McKay and Perakh. The latter was quite interested in the Voynich MS, and had found a sponsor for funding the digitisation of the MS well before the time that the Beinecke did this. However, this was never agreed with the library.
Anyway, the conclusion was that the MS text exhibits a typical curve for meaningful texts, that disappears as soon as one scrambles the words. However, since the underlying process is not completely understood, it was not real 'proof' of meaning in the MS.
The other was a 2001 paper by Gabriel Landini. He noted a peak in the spectral analysis that corresponds approximately with the average line length of the MS text. This seemed to be a manifestation of Currier's 'Line as a functional Unit' observation.
In the paper by Andreas Schinner of 2007, the anomalous random walk behaviour could tentatively be explained by 'something unexpected happening' at each line transition, i.e. another manifestation of Currier's "LAAFU", but this is very far from clear. It is also beyond my state of knowledge of such processes.
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