Discussion of "The Voynich Manuscript: Symbol roles revisited"

[RobGea]

— "greedy" as the authors phrase it — .

why Takahashi?

I think the use of "greedy" is as a computational term for the class of algorithm used: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

Two advantages of Takahashi transcription are:
1) All folios except the Rosette (fRos) are transcribed. (Only the Zandberg-Landini transcription has better coverage)
2) It is very easy to parse out the words and needs very little pre-processing to get the data in a nice format for computation. i.e it parses like butter

The Zandberg-Landini transcription is not so well known and not so easy to parse but i am sure its use will become more common.

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I do not understand most of this paper but currently i really, really like the ideas it contains.