While the Voynich Manuscript was almost certainly written left-to-right (LTR), the question whether the underlying script or cipher reads LTR or right-to-left (RTL) has received little quantitative attention. We introduce a statistical method that leverages n-gram perplexity asymmetry to determine directional bias in character sequences.
翻译:尽管伏尼契手稿几乎可以确定是从左至右(LTR)书写的,但关于其底层文字或密码系统是LTR阅读还是从右至左(RTL)阅读的问题,却很少得到定量研究的关注。我们提出了一种统计方法,该方法利用n元语法困惑度的不对称性来确定字符序列中的方向性偏倚。