04-02-2023, 05:21 PM
Thanks for the reply!
I still don't understand how exactly you generated these curves. Sorry for the trouble but could you please give us a step by step explanation of what you did? I couldn't find nablator's script either so I don't know what it does. As far as I understood you calculated the average MATTR value for each frame, then normalized each frame of a manuscript against the corresponding frame of your entire corpus. How exactly?
I still suspect there must be some error in the VM curves, otherwise it's impossible to come up with such perfect and nearly identical curves - even for Voynichese. No normalization should turn your old curves which were vastly different at small frames into nearly identical almost perfect logarithmic curves just because you change the reference corpus. I think it's two mistakes in frame 3 and 5 where values shifted by 1.:
Q13 frame 3
old: -2
new: -3
Herb.A frame 5
old: -1.3
new: -0.3
This cannot be explained by normalization with another corpus.
All other values in Q13 and Herb.A didn't change. Also old and new Herb.B and Q20 curves are identical when only taking frame 3 and 5 into account.
But please also calculate frame 4 and maybe 6. I know little about MATTR so I don't know how useful extremely small frame sizes are. Also please show data points in the graphs!
I still don't understand how exactly you generated these curves. Sorry for the trouble but could you please give us a step by step explanation of what you did? I couldn't find nablator's script either so I don't know what it does. As far as I understood you calculated the average MATTR value for each frame, then normalized each frame of a manuscript against the corresponding frame of your entire corpus. How exactly?
I still suspect there must be some error in the VM curves, otherwise it's impossible to come up with such perfect and nearly identical curves - even for Voynichese. No normalization should turn your old curves which were vastly different at small frames into nearly identical almost perfect logarithmic curves just because you change the reference corpus. I think it's two mistakes in frame 3 and 5 where values shifted by 1.:
Q13 frame 3
old: -2
new: -3
Herb.A frame 5
old: -1.3
new: -0.3
This cannot be explained by normalization with another corpus.
All other values in Q13 and Herb.A didn't change. Also old and new Herb.B and Q20 curves are identical when only taking frame 3 and 5 into account.
But please also calculate frame 4 and maybe 6. I know little about MATTR so I don't know how useful extremely small frame sizes are. Also please show data points in the graphs!