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Honours students

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	*'''2015:''' [[Lifei Wang]] and [[Andrew McInnes]], see [[Cracking the Voynich code 2015]]		*'''2015:''' [[Lifei Wang]] and [[Andrew McInnes]], see [[Cracking the Voynich code 2015]]
	*'''2016:''' [[Ruihang Feng]] and [[Yaxin Hu]], see [[Cracking the Voynich code 2016]]		*'''2016:''' [[Ruihang Feng]] and [[Yaxin Hu]], see [[Cracking the Voynich code 2016]]
			*'''2022:''' [[Gregory Kontogonis]] and [[Reilly Heijkoop-Logan]], see [[Cracking the Voynich code 2022]]

	==Project guidelines==		==Project guidelines==

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Honours students

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	*'''2014:''' [[Bryce Shi]] and [[Peter Roush]], see [[Cracking the Voynich code 2014]]		*'''2014:''' [[Bryce Shi]] and [[Peter Roush]], see [[Cracking the Voynich code 2014]]
	*'''2015:''' [[Lifei Wang]] and [[Andrew McInnes]], see [[Cracking the Voynich code 2015]]		*'''2015:''' [[Lifei Wang]] and [[Andrew McInnes]], see [[Cracking the Voynich code 2015]]
			*'''2016:''' [[Ruihang Feng]] and [[Yaxin Hu]], see [[Cracking the Voynich code 2016]]

	==Project guidelines==		==Project guidelines==

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Honours students

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	==Honours students==		==Honours students==
	*'''2014:''' [[Bryce Shi]] and [[Peter Roush]], see [[Cracking the Voynich code 2014]]		*'''2014:''' [[Bryce Shi]] and [[Peter Roush]], see [[Cracking the Voynich code 2014]]
			*'''2015:''' [[Lifei Wang]] and [[Andrew McInnes]], see [[Cracking the Voynich code 2015]]

	==Project guidelines==		==Project guidelines==

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Useful papers we wrote

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	==Useful papers we wrote==		==Useful papers we wrote==
	[http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/personal/dabbott/publications/PLO_ebrahimpour2013.pdf]		[http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/personal/dabbott/publications/PLO_ebrahimpour2013.pdf]
	[[Maryam Ebrahimpour\|M. Ebrahimpour]], [[Tālis J. Putniņš\|T. J. Putniņš]], [[Matthew J. Berryman\|M. J. Berryman]], [[Andrew G. Allison\|A. Allison]], [[Brian W.-H. Ng\|B. W.-H.-Ng]], and '''[[Derek Abbott\|D. Abbott]]''', "Automated authorship attribution using advanced signal classification techniques," ''PLoS ONE'', '''Vol. 8,''' No. 2, Art. No. e54998, 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054998		[[Maryam Ebrahimpour\|M. Ebrahimpour]], [[Tālis J. Putniņš\|T. J. Putniņš]], [[Matthew J. Berryman\|M. J. Berryman]], [[Andrew G. Allison\|A. Allison]], [[Brian W.-H. Ng\|B. W.-H. Ng]], and '''[[Derek Abbott\|D. Abbott]]''', "Automated authorship attribution using advanced signal classification techniques," ''PLoS ONE'', '''Vol. 8,''' No. 2, Art. No. e54998, 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054998

	[http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/Personal/dabbott/publications/FNL_berryman2003.pdf] [[Matthew J. Berryman\|M. J. Berryman]], [[Andrew G. Allison\|A. Allison]], and '''[[Derek Abbott\|D. Abbott]],''' "Statistical techniques for text classification based on word recurrence intervals,"		[http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/Personal/dabbott/publications/FNL_berryman2003.pdf] [[Matthew J. Berryman\|M. J. Berryman]], [[Andrew G. Allison\|A. Allison]], and '''[[Derek Abbott\|D. Abbott]],''' "Statistical techniques for text classification based on word recurrence intervals,"

Dabbott at 11:18, 5 March 2014

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	Fortunately the whole book has been converted into an electronic format with each character changed to a convenient ascii character. We want you to write software that will search the text and perform statistical tests to get clues as to the nature of the writing. Does the document bear the statistics of a natural language or is it a fake?		Fortunately the whole book has been converted into an electronic format with each character changed to a convenient ascii character. We want you to write software that will search the text and perform statistical tests to get clues as to the nature of the writing. Does the document bear the statistics of a natural language or is it a fake?

	We already have Support Vector Machine (SVM) ~~amd~~ Multiple Discriminant Analysis (MDA) software that you can ~~adpat~~ for your purposes. This software is set up to test if two texts are written by the same author or not. The great thing about our software is that it is independent of language. So you could compare it against the existing writings of Roger Bacon, who is a suspected author		We already have Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Multiple Discriminant Analysis (MDA) software that you can adapt for your purposes. This software is set up to test if two texts are written by the same author or not. The great thing about our software is that it is independent of language. So you could compare it against the existing writings of Roger Bacon, who is a suspected author

	==Useful notes==		==Useful notes==

Dabbott: /* Approach and methodology */

2014-03-05T11:14:05Z

Approach and methodology

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	==Approach and methodology==		==Approach and methodology==

	* '''Phase 1:''' Characterize the text. Write scripts that count its features. How many words? How long is the alphabet? Word frequencies? Probability of one letter following another. Probability of two letter pairs (2-grams) and n-letter group (n-grams). Compare these in a table with known languages obtained by running your same code on the Declaration of Human Rights. Don't forget to get a short paragraph of English and manually count everything and then run it on your code to cross check it is counting correctly. You must always validate ~~you~~ code or you will lose marks.		* '''Phase 1:''' Characterize the text. Write scripts that count its features. How many words? How long is the alphabet? Word frequencies? Probability of one letter following another. Probability of two letter pairs (2-grams) and n-letter group (n-grams). Compare these in a table with known languages obtained by running your same code on the Declaration of Human Rights. Don't forget to get a short paragraph of English and manually count everything and then run it on your code to cross check it is counting correctly. You must always validate your code or you will lose marks.

	* '''Phase 2:''' Write a general descriptor for each picture in the book, eg. water, woman, tree, flower, vegetable, leaf, dancing etc. Associate each descriptor with the appropriate paper. Write some code to find which words on a page are unique to those pages with those descriptors. Which words also suddenly increase in frequency on those pages with shared descriptors? Tabulate the results.		* '''Phase 2:''' Write a general descriptor for each picture in the book, eg. water, woman, tree, flower, vegetable, leaf, dancing etc. Associate each descriptor with the appropriate paper. Write some code to find which words on a page are unique to those pages with those descriptors. Which words also suddenly increase in frequency on those pages with shared descriptors? Tabulate the results.

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Useful notes

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	* Download the digital Voynich from [http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/99-01-16-concordance/ here].		* Download the digital Voynich from [http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/99-01-16-concordance/ here].

			* The UN Declaration of Human Rights is translated into every language in the world and in principle you can compare the Voynich to all the existing languages for statistical proximity. Electronic access is [http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/Introduction.aspx here].

	==Approach and methodology==		==Approach and methodology==

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Useful notes

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	==Useful notes==		==Useful notes==

			* Download the digital Voynich from [http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/99-01-16-concordance/ here].

	==Approach and methodology==		==Approach and methodology==

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			== Supervisors ==
	*[[Derek Abbott\|Prof Derek Abbott]]		*[[Derek Abbott\|Prof Derek Abbott]]
	*[[Brian W.-H. Ng\|Dr Brian Ng]]		*[[Brian W.-H. Ng\|Dr Brian Ng]]

Dabbott: /* References and useful resources */

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References and useful resources

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	* [http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/ Voynich resources]		* [http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/ Voynich resources]
	* [http://ixoloxi.com/voynich/tools.html Voynich tools]		* [http://ixoloxi.com/voynich/tools.html Voynich tools]
			* [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Voynich_Manuscript/Jargon Guide to Voynich jargon]

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