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Cryptodict abacdefb ACADEMIC abacdefb DEDICATE abacdefb MEMBRANE abacdefc ELECTRIC abacdefc TUTELAGE abacdefd ANARCHIC abacdefd EVERYDAY abacdefe ANALYSES abacdefe ANALYSIS abacdeff EYEGLASS Substitution Cipher decipherment is the analysis ingcmpnqsnwf cv fpn owoktvcv of documents written in ancient hu ihgzsnwfv rqcffnw cw owgcnwf languages ... kowazoanv ...
Generative Models Spanish letter trigram model q u o _ v a d e _ b r e r t e _ … a � {all Voynich letters} b � {all Voynich letters} c � {all Voynich letters} … z � {all Voynich letters} _ � _ V A S 9 2 _ 9 F A E _ A R _ A P A M _ … EM Algorithm. Train on Spanish web text. Parameters fixed. Probabilistic model that substitutes VMS letters for Latin letters. Initially uniform. argmax P(VMS) = argmax Σ P(latin) P(VMS | Latin) θ θ latin EM method demonstrated on many decipherment tasks in [Knight et al 2006]. Easy experiments in Carmel finite-state package: % carmel --train-cascade corpus latin.wfsa subst.wfst Returns trained devices & Viterbi decipherment.
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the Voynich Manuscript Kevin Knight
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Outline • Voynich Manuscript - VM
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38,000 words of text
Page 7 and 8: Many pictures look like grafting. T
Page 9 and 10: The Pictures: Astrological What is
Page 11 and 12: The Pictures: Pharmacological medic
Page 13 and 14: One-Page Letter Tucked Into VMS Rev
Page 15 and 16: History of Voynich Manuscript 1576-
Page 17 and 18: History of Voynich Manuscript 1864
Page 19 and 20: History of Voynich Manuscript 1576-
Page 21 and 22: Newbold System • Example: a n n
Page 23 and 24: William Newbold, Polymath, PhD UPen
Page 25 and 26: PCC89 … apparent ciphertext Let
Page 27 and 28: Newbold Decipherment 1300 real ciph
Page 29 and 30: Transcription BSC8AE OPCC9 4OE FCC8
Page 31 and 32: Introduction to Astrology and Its U
Page 33 and 34: Alphabet: Currier/D’Imperio C S Z
Page 35 and 36: Alphabet: Currier/D’Imperio C S Z
Page 37 and 38: Most Frequent Words count word coun
Page 39 and 40: Features of the Text • 115 (out o
Page 41 and 42: • Newbold (1921) Cryptogram • M
Page 43 and 44: “ Writing in Tongues ” suggeste
Page 45 and 46: How? • Gordon Rugg (Scientific Am
Page 47 and 48: BUT: what if Voynich knew that? BUT
Page 49 and 50: Substitution Cipher ingcmpnqsnwf cv
Page 51 and 52: Substitution Cipher e e e the ingcm
Page 53 and 54: Substitution Cipher e he e of the i
Page 55 and 56: Substitution Cipher e he e of the i
Page 57: Cryptodict abacdefb ACADEMIC abacde
Page 61 and 62: Hypothesize Other Source Languages
Page 63 and 64: Unknown Source Language Input Best
Page 65 and 66: Generative Models • Okay, that di
Page 67 and 68: Generative Models Trigram model ove
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Page 71 and 72: English Voynich a � b � a � b
Page 73 and 74: Generative Models Bigram model over
Page 75 and 76: 600 400 200 0 Generative Models Voy
Page 77 and 78: 600 400 200 0 Generative Models Voy
Page 79 and 80: Captain Currier’s “Two Language
Page 81 and 82: Focus Further Experiments on Voynic
Page 83 and 84: a c e i b f g h j d 10-class taggin
Page 85 and 86: 10 Classes of words: Voynich-B Tags
Page 87 and 88: • Voynich Manuscript Conclusion -
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