Bayesian inference for Zodiac and other homophonic ciphers

ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 239-247

  Ravi, Sujith ^a   Knight, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN APPROACHES; BAYESIAN INFERENCE; COMPLEX SUBSTITUTIONS; EFFICIENT SAMPLING; N-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFERENCE ENGINES;

CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 84859043863     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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