# Benedetto 2002: Language Trees and Zipping

> Dario Benedetto, Emanuele Caglioti, Vittorio Loreto, 2002. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The bioinformatics and signal-processing survey…

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# Language Trees and Zipping

Dario Benedetto, Emanuele Caglioti, Vittorio Loreto, 2002. _Physical Review Letters_.

Uses data compression to measure how far apart two texts are, and applies the measure to recognizing languages, attributing authorship and building language family trees.

**Voynich Manuscript** Articledoi: **[10.1103/physrevlett.88.048702](https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.88.048702)** Checked against the original0

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Benedetto, D., Caglioti, E., & Loreto, V. (2002). Language Trees and Zipping. Physical Review Letters. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.88.048702
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