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A Generative Grammar Underlying the Voynich Manuscript, the Pastiche Hypothesis: Evidence from Large Language Models
Nicolas Turenne, 2026. arXiv.
Proposes that the Voynich text is a generative imitation of language, using position-dependent probabilistic grammars, phonetic comparison with other languages and large language models to match the plant drawings to herbal manuscripts.
What it's used for here
The surveys cite it as the only LLM-based Voynich paper in their material and note that its image matching reports no baseline.
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SRCSignal processing, cryptanalysis, mathematics, linguistics, inductive methods
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Turenne, N. (2026). A Generative Grammar Underlying the Voynich Manuscript, the Pastiche Hypothesis: Evidence from Large Language Models. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20835
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Turenne, Nicolas. “A Generative Grammar Underlying the Voynich Manuscript, the Pastiche Hypothesis: Evidence from Large Language Models.” arXiv (2026).