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A method is a test that can be run again: what it measures, the code that does it, and every time it has been run. Each run points at the exact data it used and the result it gave.

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Language and textTreats the text as language and measures it the way linguists do.

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Topic model (LDA) of pages, k by held-out perplexity and fixed k=10

Voynich Manuscript·NLP (Blei et al. 2003)Inductive·0

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A <-> B alignment of distributional spaces (orthogonal Procrustes)

Voynich Manuscript·NLP (cross-lingual embedding alignment)Inductive·0

10

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Unsupervised morphology (Morfessor Baseline)

Voynich Manuscript·NLP (Creutz & Lagus)Inductive·0

10

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Distributional word classes (PPMI-SVD embeddings, k-means)

Voynich Manuscript·NLP / Copiale-style context clusteringInductive·0

5

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Profile screen against 103 languages

Voynich Manuscript·Computational linguisticsDeductive·0

3

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Form-function coupling (spelling vs context similarity)

Voynich Manuscript·Computational linguisticsDeductive·0

2

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Held-out context scaling (Kneser-Ney orders 1-8)

Voynich Manuscript·Language modellingDeductive·0

2

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List-genre comparison (Latin Library texts)

Voynich Manuscript·Corpus linguisticsDeductive·0

2

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Register by locus type (paragraph, label, ring, radial)

Voynich Manuscript·Corpus linguisticsDeductive·0

2

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Codex structure and statistics (entropy, Zipf, word length, slot grammar, line effects, A/B keyness, labels)

Voynich Manuscript·Corpus linguisticsDescriptive·0

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Hidden Markov model of glyph classes

Voynich Manuscript·Speech / NLPInductive·0

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