Keywords and Co-Occurrence Patterns in the Voynich Manuscript: An Information-Theoretic Analysis
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Keywords and Co-Occurrence Patterns in the Voynich Manuscript: An Information-Theoretic Analysis
The Voynich manuscript has remained so far as a mystery for linguists and cryptologists. While the text written on medieval parchment -using an unknown script system- shows basic statistical patterns that bear resemblance to those from real languages, there are features that suggested to some researches that the manuscript was a forgery intended as a hoax. Here we analyse the long-range structu...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066344