Keywords and co-occurrence patterns in the Voynich manuscript: an information-theoretic analysis

Marcelo A. Montemurro, Damián H. Zanette, 2013. PLoS ONE 8(6): e66344.

Measures how unevenly each word is spread across the Voynich text and finds that its vocabulary clusters by section much as the vocabulary of a real book does. The authors also extract groups of related words and take the results as support for a meaningful text rather than a hoax.

Voynich ManuscriptArticledoi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066344Checked against the original0

What it's used for here

The book relies on it for the long-range, section-by-section clustering of vocabulary, which its own scribe-controlled contrasts confirm and which it counts against a meaningless generator.

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Montemurro, M. A., & Zanette, D. H. (2013). Keywords and co-occurrence patterns in the Voynich manuscript: an information-theoretic analysis. PLoS ONE, 8(6), e66344. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066344

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Montemurro, Marcelo A. and Damián H. Zanette. “Keywords and co-occurrence patterns in the Voynich manuscript: an information-theoretic analysis.” PLoS ONE 8, no. 6 (2013): e66344. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066344.