18-09-2026, 07:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 18-09-2026, 07:56 PM by npcompl33t.)
I started with an approach like the author.
Essentially, the idea is once you identify one word as root, that removes it from a pool of words. You then can assign the next word, or swap words to try to maximize a scoring function.
There is actually some You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. on this type of 'blind' machine translation. Essentially the same idea, as the author, scaled up to all words.
In my historical-text benchmarks, this approach puts the correct botanical meaning among its ten proposed candidates roughly 40% of the time. First-choice accuracy is much lower, only 3/54, or 6%. So it is useful for narrowing down a shortlist of potential cribs, less good at actually identifying specific ones.
Again the issue is that the overall certainty in the results from this method completely falls apart when used on voynich, combined with the large differences between Herbal A and Herbal B. None of the historical works i was analyzing contain differences as large as Herbal A and B, at least not within the same topic.
Essentially, the idea is once you identify one word as root, that removes it from a pool of words. You then can assign the next word, or swap words to try to maximize a scoring function.
There is actually some You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. on this type of 'blind' machine translation. Essentially the same idea, as the author, scaled up to all words.
In my historical-text benchmarks, this approach puts the correct botanical meaning among its ten proposed candidates roughly 40% of the time. First-choice accuracy is much lower, only 3/54, or 6%. So it is useful for narrowing down a shortlist of potential cribs, less good at actually identifying specific ones.
Again the issue is that the overall certainty in the results from this method completely falls apart when used on voynich, combined with the large differences between Herbal A and Herbal B. None of the historical works i was analyzing contain differences as large as Herbal A and B, at least not within the same topic.