Keywords and Co-Occurrence Patterns in the Voynich Manuscript: An Information-Theoretic Analysis

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Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Montemurro, Marcelo A ^a   Zanette, Damián H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRO ATÓMICO BARILOCHE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOLOGIST; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PUBLICATION; RESEARCH; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS; VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT; DATA MINING; HUMAN; PROCEDURES;

DATA MINING; HUMANS; INFORMATION THEORY; MANUSCRIPTS AS TOPIC; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84879255055     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066344     Document Type: Article

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