The lexicon of any natural language encodes a huge number of distinct word meanings. Just
to understand this article, you will need to know what thousands of words mean. The space …

A rigorous case for the primacy of mind in nature, from philosophy to neuroscience,
psychology and physics. The Idea of the World offers a grounded alternative to the frenzy of …

The Voynich Manuscript is a fifteenth-century illustrated cipher manuscript. In this overview
of recent approaches to the Voynich Manuscript, we summarize and evaluate current work …

The Voynich manuscript has remained so far as a mystery for linguists and cryptologists.
While the text written on medieval parchment-using an unknown script system-shows basic …

An interesting model to represent texts as a graph (also called network) is the word
adjacency (co-occurrence) representation, which is known to capture mainly syntactical …

This article presents a mathematical and empirical verification of computational constancy
measures for natural language text. A constancy measure characterizes a given text by …

Algorithmic decipherment is a prime example of a truly unsupervised problem. The first step
in the decipherment process is the identification of the encrypted language. We propose …

Leading-edge empirical observations are increasingly difficult to reconcile with'scientific'
materialism. Laboratory results in quantum mechanics, for instance, strongly indicate that …

This work describes the first thorough analysis of “header” signs in proto-Elamite, an
undeciphered script from 3100-2900 BCE. Headers are a category of signs which have …

Decipherment of historical ciphers is a challenging problem. The language of the target
plaintext might be unknown, and ciphertext can have a lot of noise. State-of-the-art …