Show HN: I modeled the Voynich Manuscript with SBERT to test for structure

📜 Voynich Manuscript Structural Analysis 🔍 Overview 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'm not a linguist or cryptographer. 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. Spoiler: it kinda did. This repo walks through everything — from suffix stripping to SBERT embeddings to building a lexicon hypothesis. No magic, no GPT guessing. Just a skeptical test of whether the manuscript has structure that behaves like language, even if we don’t know what it’s saying. 🧠 Why This Matters The Voynich Manuscript remains undeciphered, with no agreed linguistic or cryptographic solution. Traditional analyses often fall into two camps: statistical entropy checks or wild guesswork. This project offers a middle path — u ... Read full article.