Working my way to a semantic word analysis

[Rafal]

Hi and welcome to the forum!

Everything that you write makes sense. Your assumptions may be not correct or not but that's exactly how assumption works - you assume them, do some test and their are either confirmed or denied. Or there is the third case where the results are inconclusive which in unfortunately quite often in the area of VM.

With this method, one can (approximately) distinguish "content words" from "function words". Content words are those that are specific to a particular topic, like "Voynich" or "Quantum", while function words are words that show up everywhere, like "the", "of", "and", etc.

Here you are making a hidden assumption that Voynichese has content and function words In general case it doesn't have to be true if the text is gibberish or function words for example are glued with content words (agglutination).

I believe similar tests were done before. Such methods will always return "something" like two lists of words. But will these lists make sense or will they be a statistical artifact??? Hard to say. Unfortunately this approach didn't lead us any further so far but maybe your results will be different  

Down the line, maybe I have time to produce a visual tool where people can explore how words cluster in certain portions of the text.

I would like to have something like this. Make it user friendly please - not some scripts run from black window with a dozen parameters but a true window application with buttons and menus