Directionality of the Voynich Script
About
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.
Christophe Parisel• 2025
Related benchmarks
| Task | Dataset | Result | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Character-stream perplexity asymmetry analysis | Voynich corpus | Delta (Δ)0.0653 | 3 | |
| Character-stream perplexity asymmetry analysis | English Corpus | Delta (Δ)0.0033 | 3 | |
| Character-stream perplexity asymmetry analysis | French corpus | Delta (Δ)0.0068 | 3 |
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