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What We Know About the Voynich Manuscript

Sravana Reddy, Kevin Knight, 2011. Proceedings of the 5th ACL-HLT Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities: 78–86.

A statistical survey of the Voynich text, covering letter and word statistics, word lengths and a two-state hidden Markov model of the glyphs.

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The book cites it among studies that found results change with the transliteration; the surveys cite its HMM and positional findings.

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Reddy, S., & Knight, K. (2011). What We Know About the Voynich Manuscript. Proceedings of the 5th ACL-HLT Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities, 78–86. https://aclanthology.org/W11-1511/
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