Vord paradigm tool

[ReneZ]

The question how good each model predicts the occurrence of words in the Voynich text is not a matter of taste.

That is true, but that was not the original question. The original question was to find ways to model the words. A simple list of all words fully and perfectly predicts the occurrence of words in the Voynich text, but that is where its use ends.

What is a matter of taste is, which property of the text one finds most intersting, or which property one would like to highlight. The network of words highlights the fact that one can connect words that differ by only one edit distance. Stolfi's word grammar highlights that such a grammar exists in the first place. The slot tables do something similar, but are more visual (easy to understand) and less complete.

The network does not show the word structure, and the grammar and slot tables do not show the connectivity of similar words.

Non-existent words are a problem in properly understanding all this, though I don't want to over-emphasise the importance of them.

In any case, there are non-existent words, that did occur on the now missing pages, but we don't know them. They are valid words though.

Now only if the MS has a meaningful text, then there are likely to be valid words that did not exist in the entire MS.