22-01-2026, 08:38 AM
(This post was last modified: 22-01-2026, 08:48 AM by Jorge_Stolfi.)
(22-01-2026, 06:33 AM)Petrasti wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Hello Jorge, I still don't quite understand what the goal of your analysis is. Do you see a way to categorize the manuscript more as natural language in the analysis or the results?
I believe that it is natural language, but not an European one, or any that would be known in Europe at the time (such as Arabic, Hebrew, Georgian, Basque, Turkish, Persian...). And I believe that it is in the plain, or at most encrypted with an encoding that is one-to-one on words.
The general goal of that analysis was to identify sentence boundaries in the paragraphs. This analysis specifically tested the hunch that the q-words could be indicators of start or end of sentence -- such as verbs in a VSO or SOV language, or nominative case nouns in a SVO language, etc..
The results do not quite prove that hunch, but suggest that those words have a specific syntactic role that places them in specific places in a sentence. That would explain why they tend to be absent from the beginning and end of paragraphs.
All the best, --stolfi