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Probing the statistical properties of unknown texts: application to the Voynich manuscript
Diego R. Amancio, Eduardo G. Altmann, Diego Rybski et al., 2013. PLoS ONE 8(7): e67310.
Proposes a test of whether a text in an unknown script behaves like natural language, combining word statistics, word co-occurrence networks and intermittency measures. The method is calibrated on the New Testament in 15 languages and then applied to the Voynich Manuscript.
What it's used for here
The book cites its network measures as placing the manuscript among meaningful texts rather than shuffled controls; the methods surveys note that it works at a single scale and uses no generator controls.
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Cite it
Amancio, D. R., Altmann, E. G., Rybski, D., Oliveira, O. N., & Costa, L. d. F. (2013). Probing the statistical properties of unknown texts: application to the Voynich manuscript. PLoS ONE, 8(7), e67310. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0067310
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title = {Probing the statistical properties of unknown texts: application to the Voynich manuscript},
journal = {PLoS ONE},
year = {2013},
volume = {8},
number = {7},
pages = {e67310},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0067310}
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Amancio, Diego R. et al.. “Probing the statistical properties of unknown texts: application to the Voynich manuscript.” PLoS ONE 8, no. 7 (2013): e67310. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0067310.