Decipherment with a Million Random Restarts

Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Dan Klein, 2013. Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.

Shows that running EM-based decipherment from a very large number of random starting points greatly improves results on homophonic ciphers, including the Zodiac 408.

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Berg-Kirkpatrick, T., & Klein, D. (2013). Decipherment with a Million Random Restarts. Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. https://aclanthology.org/D13-1087/

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Berg-Kirkpatrick, Taylor and Dan Klein. “Decipherment with a Million Random Restarts.” Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2013).