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

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

Jacques Guy 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.

	Surely you know about synthetic sampling, aka Monte Carlo 
simulation, perhaps based on a monkey that uses Stolfi's 
Voynichese grammar.  Very definitely not true Voynichese, 
but perhaps more amenable to some kinds of analysis.   If we 
need a few gigabytes of Voynichese, that would be the only 
way to get it.  Nick seems to understand.

> > 	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.

	What do you mean?  The spaces provide segmentation of 
"words".

Dennis

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