# Kevin Knight 2006: Unsupervised Analysis for Decipherment Problems

> Kevin Knight, Anish Nair, Nishit Rathod et al., 2006. 5 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Main Conference…

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# Unsupervised Analysis for Decipherment Problems

Kevin Knight, Anish Nair, Nishit Rathod et al., 2006.

**Voynich Manuscript** Paper-conference0

## What it's used for here

Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions, pp. 499-506 (ACL Anthology page checked). EM decipherment: a fixed plaintext n-gram model and a learned channel P(cipher sign | plaintext letter), trained by forward-backward. Base of the Track A lattice EM method.

## Cited by on this site 5 records

[At herbal-section length the period cipher's key can't be recovered once sign boundaries must be learned](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0DCHSNDZS8PF/at-herbal-section-length-the-period-ciphers-key-cant-be)

Evidence

EVD

[Candidate decodings cross-modelled against contextual evidence, with the pictures as model variables and a null-calibrated discovery test (T45 design)](https://mysteriesdept.com/methods/MTH0DCSNGCA34FS/candidate-decodings-cross-modelled-against-contextual)

Method

MTH

[Lattice EM decipherment: sign boundaries and key learned together, with a structure-preserving null](https://mysteriesdept.com/methods/MTH0DCF04BX248D/lattice-em-decipherment-sign-boundaries-and-key-learned)

Method

MTH

[Lattice EM on CUDA with batched restarts, basin hopping and parallel tempering, run up a ladder of planted controls (T44)](https://mysteriesdept.com/methods/MTH0DCM5ZVDK55J/lattice-em-on-cuda-with-batched-restarts-basin-hopping-and)

Method

MTH

[The Voynich Manuscript](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript)

The mystery article

MYS

## Cite it

```
Kevin Knight, Anish Nair, Nishit Rathod, & Kenji Yamada (2006). Unsupervised Analysis for Decipherment Problems. https://aclanthology.org/P06-2065/
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[Find it at aclanthology.org](https://aclanthology.org/P06-2065/)

Key

**SRC** 0DCEXM6FBS17

Kind

Paper-conference

Rights

The publisher's

Kept

28 Oct 2026, for editors

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