Inside the Voynich Network: graph analysis

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Here are some additional files which you may find useful.  In You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.:

Legitimate texts:

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lines  words    bytes file        ------- ------- --------- ------------   9058  99049    531241 engl/chr/true.txt English, Culpeper's Herbal, herbal section.     845    7684    45404 voyn/hea/true.txt Voynichese, Herbal-A, parags only.          359    3417    20400 voyn/heb/true.txt Voynichese, Herbal-B, parags only.          661    6804    41140 voyn/bio/true.txt Voynichese, Bio, parags only.            1111  11555    72750 voyn/str/true.txt Voynichese, Starred Parags, parags only.

Fake texts generated (mostly) from the above by a Markov of order 2:

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lines  words    bytes file        ------- ------- --------- ------------   9092  99049    532343 engl/chr/fake.txt     842    7684    45592 voyn/hea/fake.txt     346    3417    20394 voyn/heb/fake.txt     646    6804    41173 voyn/bio/fake.txt   1125  11555    72839 voyn/str/fake.txt

Same, but one word per line:

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lines  words    bytes file        ------- ------- --------- ------------   99049  99049    531241 engl/chr/true.wdp   7684    7684    45404 voyn/hea/true.wdp   3417    3417    20400 voyn/heb/true.wdp   6804    6804    41140 voyn/bio/true.wdp   11555  11555    72745 voyn/str/true.wdp

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lines  words    bytes file        ------- ------- --------- ------------   99049  99049    532343 engl/chr/fake.wdp   7684    7684    45592 voyn/hea/fake.wdp   3417    3417    20394 voyn/heb/fake.wdp   6804    6804    41172 voyn/bio/fake.wdp   11555  11555    72829 voyn/str/fake.wdp

The ".wdp" files have one word per line. The ".txt" files are the same
but filled as parags to 72 columns. In all files, the end of a parag is
denoted by a word "=" in a line by itself. The file encoding is
ISO-latin-1.

The Voynichese files are derived from a recent copy of Rene's
transcription, which uses lowercase EVA. Line breaks and plant
intrusions in the original text are not recorded. Parag breaks
were inferred from the "locators" ("P+", "P=", etc.)
Unfortunately the sections, especially Herbal-B, are
rather short.

The English files are derived from Culpeper's Herbal. Only the plant
descriptions from the Herbal section proper were taken, omitting the
"Place", "Time", and "Vertues" subsections, and the marginal notes.
Punctiation, numbers, and symbols (including "&") are omitted. The words
were all mapped to lowercase. The word characters are thus [a-z] plus
apostrophe "'", "°" for abbreviation period, and "~" for hyphen.

Hope it helps, --stolfi