17-07-2021, 07:16 AM
(09-07-2021, 05:31 PM)Mark Knowles wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I have a strong suspicion that a computer could probably do a much better job than a human of transcribing the Voynich as it seems likely that the human transcriptions are not very good. Obviously the quality of transcriptions is vital to Voynich research.
As I understand it, the main problems with transcriptions are ambiguity and lack of consensus on modified characters and spacing. Machine learning shouldn't help with these per se.
But, a machine learning transcription of the ms is overdue for a few reasons. Thinking about it for a second, it would also make easy probability ranges for everything on the page, instead of what all current transcriptions do, which is bite the bullet and put down a 1:1 transcription for what you think are the characters, even though it's really not always clear. Surely this type of transcription has been thought of before, so why isn't there one?