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Decoding anagrammed texts written in an unknown language and script

Bradley Hauer, Grzegorz Kondrak, 2016. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics 4: 75–86.

Proposes methods for identifying the language of a text enciphered by substitution, then applies them to the Voynich Manuscript, suggesting Hebrew with anagrammed words.

MYS08HTEHX052AX · mystery · click to copyMVoynich ManuscriptArticledoi: 10.1162/tacl_a_00084Checked against the original0

What it's used for here

The book and the surveys treat it as a leading computational reading and note that its decoded text does not read as language.

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Hauer, B., & Kondrak, G. (2016). Decoding anagrammed texts written in an unknown language and script. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 4, 75–86. https://doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00084
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