Making a test for translations unbiased by images

[qoltedy]

Hi and welcome!

How are you going to verify the translation?

If you wish, I can offer you a simpler test to check whether you can identify parts of real Voynich transcription and gibberish. I can give you 10 random lines from the transcription of the manuscript, each of them in two variants: the original and one with word and word pieces scrambled randomly, except for the very start and the very beginning of the line.

If your method can successfully identify in 8 out of 10 pairs which version is the meaningful text, and which one is random gibberish, then it would make sense to think about testing the quality of translation. Note that I won't need you to give us your answers, since in any case it's very easy to cheat on this test by searching for the lines in the transcription. It's only for your own self-evaluation of the method. So, I'm going to give you the test file and after you confirm that you have finished with the identification, I'll give you the answers.

In theory, one could verify the translation by seeing if the passage actually makes sense or just outputs gibberish, and whether it can reasonably match the visual content. And word definitions would need to be reasonably consistent across the entire text as well.

I would appreciate your test with the word scramblings so I can see if my method truly holds up.