02-02-2023, 10:52 PM
Hi Koen,
I don't remember which kind of normalization you are applying here. What is the intuitive meaning of a value of -1, 0 or +1?
About the shuffled VMS text, I guess that the plot being above the others means that the shuffled text has more different types in all windows smaller than 1000. As we already discussed in the past, this is particularly interesting for very small windows, since I expect that natural languages behave in the opposite way: e.g. "the the" will make up almost 10% of consecutive word pairs in a shuffled English text, therefore the shuffled texts will have fewer types in very small windows.
Also, it seems interesting that the shape of the shuffled VMS text is not very different from that of actual Voynichese. Again, I expect this not to be the case for the natural language samples.
I don't remember which kind of normalization you are applying here. What is the intuitive meaning of a value of -1, 0 or +1?
About the shuffled VMS text, I guess that the plot being above the others means that the shuffled text has more different types in all windows smaller than 1000. As we already discussed in the past, this is particularly interesting for very small windows, since I expect that natural languages behave in the opposite way: e.g. "the the" will make up almost 10% of consecutive word pairs in a shuffled English text, therefore the shuffled texts will have fewer types in very small windows.
Also, it seems interesting that the shape of the shuffled VMS text is not very different from that of actual Voynichese. Again, I expect this not to be the case for the natural language samples.
![[+]](https://www.voynich.ninja/images/collapse_collapsed.png)