Co-Occurrence Patterns in the Voynich Manuscript
arXiv:1601.07435v21 citations
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This addresses the long-standing mystery of the Voynich Manuscript for linguists and historians, but it is incremental as it builds on prior statistical analyses.
The paper tackled the problem of analyzing the Voynich Manuscript's word distribution and found that it does not match patterns in natural languages.
The Voynich Manuscript is a medieval book written in an unknown script. This paper studies the distribution of similarly spelled words in the Voynich Manuscript. It shows that the distribution of words within the manuscript is not compatible with natural languages.