LINGUIST List 22.4172
Mon Oct 24 2011
Media: 18th-century Copiale Cipher solved by statistical algorithm
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18th-century Copiale Cipher solved by statistical algorithm
Message 1: 18th-century Copiale Cipher solved by statistical algorithm
Date: 24-Oct-2011
From: Brent Woo <bwoolinguistlist.org>
Subject: 18th-century Copiale Cipher solved by statistical algorithm
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A team of Swedish and American linguists use translation techniques similar tothe statistical algorithm used in Google Translate to crack the heretoforeundeciphered 18th-century Copiale Cipher. The Voynich Manuscript remainsimpregnable.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/science/25code.html
Linguistic Field(s):
Computational Linguistics
Translation
Writing Systems
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