Automated Topic Analysis of the Voynich Manuscript

[davidma]

 

These findings suggest that topic modeling not only helps cluster content by lexical features, but also reflects deeper structural patterns of authorship and writing practices in the manuscript. It supports the idea that different scribes may have introduced or emphasized different "topics", even when writing in the same Currier language.

I'd be very interested to hear your interpretations or see comparisons with other modeling approaches.

Just thinking of the naibbe cipher, could it be that each scribe had it's own encryption table? What is the scribral frequency? Would it match the 5-3-1-1 naibbe distribution? Regardless,  I think these are extremely interesting results.