I did some more experiments with shuffling, here is the first one: some more Voynich samples. Each color is the section and its shuffled version (which is the higher one in each case).
For Q20, the blue line, the shape of the line remains similar, but TTR is increased a lot in small windows. This effect is all but gone by the 1000-word window. Herbal B is not included since it largely coincides with Q20, so both B-sections behave very similarly.
Herbal A (yellow) is similar, though I would have expected a much larger increase in TTR on the left side.
Q13 (black) has the most dramatic increase in TTR by shuffling.
An intuitive way to think of this graph is "how much vocabulary clustering over blocks of x words does shuffling undo?" I don't actually know which behaviors can be considered normal for a text, so let's try some real texts next.
For Q20, the blue line, the shape of the line remains similar, but TTR is increased a lot in small windows. This effect is all but gone by the 1000-word window. Herbal B is not included since it largely coincides with Q20, so both B-sections behave very similarly.
Herbal A (yellow) is similar, though I would have expected a much larger increase in TTR on the left side.
Q13 (black) has the most dramatic increase in TTR by shuffling.
An intuitive way to think of this graph is "how much vocabulary clustering over blocks of x words does shuffling undo?" I don't actually know which behaviors can be considered normal for a text, so let's try some real texts next.
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