This info comes to me from a former student in my undergrad NLP class, where we studied the Voynich Manuscript a bit. In fact, a number of students carried out projects where they analyzed the manuscript using basic statistical nlp techniques, and they generally concluded that it looked like human language. The Voynich Manuscript is a mysterious document, whose origin and content have been a mystery for many years...
Perhaps no longer. A researcher named Gordon Rugg has studied the Voynich Manuscript, and concluded that it was a rather elaborate hoax! http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/cs/staff/g.rugg/voynich/index.html and here's a write up in Wired magazine from Sept 2004 : http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/rugg.html This looks to be quite a clever solution, and is quite interesting even if you haven't ever worried much about the Voynich Manuscript. Enjoy, Ted -- Ted Pedersen http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/x3XolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nlpatumd/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
