22.4172, Media: 18th-century Copiale Cipher solved by statistical algorithm

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Subject: 22.4172, Media: 18th-century Copiale Cipher solved by statistical algorithm

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Date: 24-Oct-2011
From: Brent Woo [bwoo at linguistlist.org]
Subject: 18th-century Copiale Cipher solved by statistical algorithm


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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:36:46
From: Brent Woo [bwoo at linguistlist.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 to 
the statistical algorithm used in Google Translate to crack the heretofore 
undeciphered 18th-century Copiale Cipher. The Voynich Manuscript remains 
impregnable.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/science/25code.html 


Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Translation
                     Writing Systems





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