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Gibberish after All? Voynichese Is Statistically Similar to Human-Produced Samples of Meaningless Text
Daniel E. Gaskell, Claire Bowern, 2022. Proceedings of the International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript 2022 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 3313).
Compares the Voynich text with samples of meaningless text written by people and finds it statistically similar to them.
What it's used for here
The surveys use it as the strongest published case that the text could be deliberate gibberish, and as a source of controls.
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Gaskell, D. E., & Bowern, C. (2022). Gibberish after All? Voynichese Is Statistically Similar to Human-Produced Samples of Meaningless Text. Proceedings of the International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript 2022 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 3313). https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3313/paper4.pdf
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Gaskell, Daniel E. and Claire Bowern. “Gibberish after All? Voynichese Is Statistically Similar to Human-Produced Samples of Meaningless Text.” Proceedings of the International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript 2022 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 3313) (2022).