# Hauer 2016: Decoding anagrammed texts written in an unknown language and script

> Bradley Hauer, Grzegorz Kondrak, 2016. 6 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The book and the surveys treat it as a leading computational reading…

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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.

**Voynich Manuscript** Articledoi: **[10.1162/tacl_a_00084](https://doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00084)** Checked 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.

## The document 12 pages

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## Cited by on this site 6 records

[Reading Without a Key](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D8NJAWT22V4/reading-without-a-key)

The book, version 2.0

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Signal processing, cryptanalysis, mathematics, linguistics, inductive methods

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## Cite it

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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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