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

I built this project as a way to learn more about NLP by applying it to something weird and unsolved.<p>The Voynich Manuscript is a 15th-century book written in an unknown script. No one’s been able to translate it, and many think it’s a hoax, a cipher, or a constructed language. I wasn’t trying to decode it — I just wanted to see: does it behave like a structured language?<p>I stripped a handful of common suffix-like endings (aiin, dy, etc.) to isolate what looked like root forms. I know that’s a strong assumption — I call it out directly in the repo — but it helped clarify the clustering. From there, I used SBERT embeddings and KMeans to group similar roots, inferred POS-like roles based on position and frequency, and built a Markov transition matrix to visualize cluster-to-cluster flow.<p>It’s not translation. It’s not decryption. It’s structural modeling — and it revealed some surprisingly consistent syntax across the manuscript, especially when broken out by section (Botanical, Biological, etc.).<p>GitHub repo: <a href="https://github.com/brianmg/voynich-nlp-analysis">https://github.com/brianmg/voynich-nlp-analysis</a> Write-up: <a href="https://brig90.substack.com/p/modeling-the-voynich-manuscript-with?r=3z5dn9" rel="nofollow">https://brig90.substack.com/p/modeling-the-voynich-manuscrip...</a><p>I’m new to the NLP space, so I’m sure there are things I got wrong — but I’d love feedback from people who’ve worked with structured language modeling or weird edge cases like this.