A family of grammars for Voynichese

[Mauro]

Happy new year everybody!

I have published my work on slot grammars on Academia.edu

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It changed a good deal from what I presented here, this is the abstract:

I review the metrics used to evaluate slot grammars, showing the normally used efficiency and F1 score to be fundamentally flawed. After introducing the concept of ‘looping’ slot grammars, a generalization of standard grammars, I show how any grammar can be used in a distinctive lossless data compression algorithm to generate a compressed Voynich Manuscript text. This allows the definition of a new metric free from fundamental flaws: Nbits, the total number of bits needed to store the compressed text. I then compare published state-of-the-art grammars and the newly introduced LOOP-L grammar class using the Nbits metric.

Thanks to all who'll read it, as usual remarks and criticism are welcomed.