13-03-2023, 01:26 PM
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(13-03-2023, 12:18 PM)Arichichi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.At first glance, do you think it's worth the effort?
Voynichese is a huge trap for confirmation bias, so statistics are extremely useful even if transliterations are far from perfect. I don't know if anyone made an attempt to find patterns in long sequences of common bigrams.
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After a quick search on my hard drive for "pattern":
Emma May Smith and Marco Ponzi found interesting correlations across word breaks. The automatic parts of speech recognition was not successful. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
There is the famous article by Montemurro and Zanette who reportedly discovered semantic patterns: Keywords and Co-Occurrence Patterns in the Voynich Manuscript: An Information-Theoretic Analysis You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
I believe that Nick Pelling is right about the "container layer": You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
Pardis Motiee - The Pattern Hypothesis of Voynich Manuscript
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Not what you propose, apparently, but I'm sure there are other studies.
I checked the k/t gallows sequence recently: it is extremely non-random but there are no obvious patterns, only local clusters.
