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Show HN: I modeled the Voynich Manuscript with SBERT to test for structure
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This started as a personal challenge to figure out what modern NLP could tell us about the Voynich Manuscript — without falling into translation speculation or pattern hallucination. I just wanted to see if something as strange as Voynichese would hold up under real language modeling: clustering, POS inference, Markov transitions, and section-specific patterns. Cluster-to-word mappings are indirect — frequency estimates may overlap Suffix stripping is heuristic and may remove meaningful endings No semantic translation attempted — only structural modeling
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