# Nuhn 2013: Beam Search for Solving Substitution Ciphers

> Malte Nuhn, Julian Schamper, Hermann Ney, 2013. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The cryptanalysis survey includes beam-search decipherment as…

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# Beam Search for Solving Substitution Ciphers

Malte Nuhn, Julian Schamper, Hermann Ney, 2013. _Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)_.

An ACL 2013 paper that solves simple and homophonic substitution ciphers automatically by beam search scored with a language model.

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## What it's used for here

The cryptanalysis survey includes beam-search decipherment as a method to run on the manuscript per Currier language and section, with planted and generated controls.

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Nuhn, M., Schamper, J., & Ney, H. (2013). Beam Search for Solving Substitution Ciphers. Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). https://aclanthology.org/P13-1154/
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