Re: VMs: RE: RE: Best-fit 2-state PFSMs

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

11/03/2005 12:10:06 AM, Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Would 
>it tell us something to create an enormous synthetic 
>Voynichese corpus by Gabriel or Jeff's method or Stolfi's 
>Voynichese grammar and then analyze it?

Surely, you are joking. Of bloody course it wouldn't
tell us anything. Oh, all right, you think it would? Well,
MONKEY will merrily create gigabytes of Voynich-looking
drivel for you. Scientific American might lap it up,
though.

>	What about defining a transcription alphabet that treats 
>these digraphs/verbose cipher elements as single glyphemes 
>and then analyzing the VMs in that transcription?    That 
>seems like a useful exercise.

It comes back to the problem of the segmentation of
continuous text. Solve it first, then, only then, see.



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