With the help of his grad student Bradley Hauer, the computer scientists have taken a big step in cracking the code, discovering that the text is written in what appears to be the Hebrew language, and with letters arranged in a fixed pattern.
For Greg Kondrak, an expert in natural language processing at the University of Alberta, this seemed a perfect task for artificial intelligence. But as for the meaning of the text - nothing.
Most pages are adorned with illustrations of diagrams, including plants, nude figures, and astronomical symbols. The Voynich manuscript contains hundreds of fragile pages, some missing, with hand-written text going from left to right. Named after Wilfrid Voynich, the Polish book dealer who procured the manuscript in 1912, the document is written in an unknown script that encodes an unknown language - a double-whammy of unknowns that has, until this point, been impossible to interpret. Using artificial intelligence, Canadian researchers have taken a huge step forward in unraveling the document's hidden meaning. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Since its discovery over a hundred years ago, the 240-page Voynich manuscript, filled with seemingly coded language and inscrutable illustrations, of has confounded linguists and cryptographers.
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