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Cipher Type Detection

Malte Nuhn, Kevin Knight, 2014. Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).

Trains a classifier to tell which of 50 cipher types, as defined by the American Cryptogram Association, produced a given ciphertext, so that archive material can be sorted before anyone tries to break it.

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What it's used for here

The survey on inductive methods lists it among cipher-type classifiers, noting that their training classes are classical cipher types.

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Nuhn, M., & Knight, K. (2014). Cipher Type Detection. Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). https://doi.org/10.3115/v1/d14-1185
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