Re: VMs: Sukhotin Vowel IDs

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

24/03/2005 8:36:45 AM, "Ben Preece" <ben.preece@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Knox Mix pointed me to this site:
>http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/C/C73/C73-1017.pdf

I did not know about that article. It looks like an
abstract, or an introduction. The actual articles by
Sukhotin which I have read are much longer and detailed.

>I also dug this out of the voynich archives:
>http://www.voynich.net/Arch/2001/01/msg00108.html

Yes, that is a free translation of a French translation
published in 1974 in T.A. Information. "Free" translation
because the original was dreadfully bloated and obscurely
worded. The algorithm itself uselessly complicated. 

For instance, t reordered the rows and columns of the 
frequency matrix at each iteration. So I rewrote much 
of it, adding my own explanations. For instance:

If languages did not have properties (1) and (2), the text of
property (2) would read: "cnsnntsooa tnde to ppraea nxte
to vwlsoe rhtrae thna nxte to cnsnntsooa" or "cnsnnts tnd
t ppr nxt t vwls rthr thn nxt t cnsnnts ooa e o aea e o oe ae
a e o ooa".

That is my invention, there is nothing remotely like it 
in the French (and Russian) original.



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