Anton > 07-07-2021, 08:00 PM
Mark Knowles > 07-07-2021, 08:48 PM
(07-07-2021, 08:00 PM)Anton Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Definitely there are places where it would be of value to have more visual information about. Let's say the writings in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. or many places in the MS where (it seems that) something has been erased.
Naked eye is better than any scan in this respect, because scan is two-dimensional only, while when you're looking at the object with your own eyes, you can look at different angles and see much more.
Mark Knowles > 09-07-2021, 02:04 PM
Mark Knowles > 09-07-2021, 05:31 PM
farmerjohn > 09-07-2021, 06:07 PM
(09-07-2021, 05:31 PM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I have a strong suspicion that a computer could probably do a much better job than a human of transcribing the Voynich as it seems likely that the human transcriptions are not very good. Obviously the quality of transcriptions is vital to Voynich research.
Koen G > 09-07-2021, 06:24 PM
(09-07-2021, 06:07 PM)farmerjohn Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I actually think that the quality of transcription is not very important for VMS research.
Mark Knowles > 09-07-2021, 07:57 PM
(09-07-2021, 06:07 PM)farmerjohn Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I actually think that the quality of transcription is not very important for VMS research. Even the most ideal transcription won't affect key properties such as word/letter frequencies greatly.
(09-07-2021, 06:07 PM)farmerjohn Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
Mark Knowles > 09-07-2021, 08:12 PM
(09-07-2021, 06:24 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(09-07-2021, 06:07 PM)farmerjohn Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I actually think that the quality of transcription is not very important for VMS research.
This is surprisingly often true. Since the VM text is so large, you can get away with a pretty large amount of errors. Or put differently, while there are many differences between transcriptions, the impact on statistics is often much smaller than one would intuitively think.
(09-07-2021, 06:24 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
byatan > 17-07-2021, 07:16 AM
(09-07-2021, 05:31 PM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I have a strong suspicion that a computer could probably do a much better job than a human of transcribing the Voynich as it seems likely that the human transcriptions are not very good. Obviously the quality of transcriptions is vital to Voynich research.
Maria Rita Lunazzi > 19-10-2021, 05:25 PM