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Demystifying the Scribes behind the Voynich Manuscript using Computational Linguistic Techniques

Kevin Farrugia, Colin Layfield, Lonneke van der Plas, 2022. Proceedings of the International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript 2022 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings 3313).

Uses computational linguistics to test Lisa Fagin Davis's five-scribe attribution: whether the pages assigned to each scribe differ in their text statistics.

MYS08HTEHX052AX · mystery · click to copyMVoynich ManuscriptArticleChecked against the original0

What it's used for here

Six of the methods surveys use its result that scribe labels line up with the Currier A and B split, and note the circularity that implies.

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6 methods surveys
Signal processing, cryptanalysis, mathematics, linguistics, inductive methods, encoding procedures
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Farrugia, K., Layfield, C., & van der Plas, L. (2022). Demystifying the Scribes behind the Voynich Manuscript using Computational Linguistic Techniques. Proceedings of the International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript 2022 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings 3313). https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3313/
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