bi3mw > 24-06-2020, 05:59 PM
(23-06-2020, 08:32 PM)RobGea Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.la divina commedia di dante alighieriI get different values in the Divine Comedy. Can you upload the corpus ?
Total words: 97344
Vocabulary : 19893
Hapax : 13750
RobGea > 24-06-2020, 07:48 PM
bi3mw > 24-06-2020, 08:56 PM
Torsten > 25-06-2020, 06:35 AM
(24-06-2020, 12:43 PM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.All this is based on the assumption that the Voynich MS words are the equivalents of complete words in some natural language.
This is a most natural assumption that is made almost automatically by most people (at least by most people presenting solutions) but I am not at all sure that it is correct.
There are arguments in favour of it and arguments against it, but both types are rather weak.
In favour: adherence (more or less) to Zipf's law
Against: unusual distribution of repeating word sequences.
bi3mw > 25-06-2020, 01:15 PM
(25-06-2020, 06:35 AM)Torsten Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - the end of the lines nearly always fit into the available spaceThese can also be "filler words" that mean nothing, independent of the rest of the text. Perhaps this is one of the reasons for the relatively high percentage of unique words in the VMS. To check this, one would have to look at these words at the end of lines or between plants (are they unique or not?).
Torsten > 25-06-2020, 02:50 PM
(25-06-2020, 01:15 PM)bi3mw Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.These can also be "filler words" that mean nothing, independent of the rest of the text. Perhaps this is one of the reasons for the relatively high percentage of unique words in the VMS. To check this, one would have to look at these words at the end of lines or between plants (are they unique or not?).
ReneZ > 25-06-2020, 03:27 PM
(25-06-2020, 06:35 AM)Torsten Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There are far more arguments (without claim of completeness):
In favor (somehow it looks like language):
- it is structured
- adherence to Zipf's law
- context dependency
Torsten > 25-06-2020, 05:41 PM
(25-06-2020, 03:27 PM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.My question was whether the Voynich MS "words" represent complete words in some language, not whether the text is (or seems) meaningful.