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Query: Probing the statistical properties of unknown texts: application to the
  Voynich Manuscript   While the use of statistical physics methods to analyze large corpora has
been useful to unveil many patterns in texts, no comprehensive investigation
has been performed investigating the properties of statistical measurements
across different languages and texts. In this study we propose a framework that
aims at determining if a text is compatible with a natural language and which
languages are closest to it, without any knowledge of the meaning of the words.
The approach is based on three types of statistical measurements, i.e. obtained
from first-order statistics of word properties in a text, from the topology of
complex networks representing text, and from intermittency concepts where text
is treated as a time series. Comparative experiments were performed with the
New Testament in 15 different languages and with distinct books in English and
Portuguese in order to quantify the dependency of the different measurements on
the language and on the story being told in the book. The metrics found to be
informative in distinguishing real texts from their shuffled versions include
assortativity, degree and selectivity of words. As an illustration, we analyze
an undeciphered medieval manuscript known as the Voynich Manuscript. We show
that it is mostly compatible with natural languages and incompatible with
random texts. We also obtain candidates for key-words of the Voynich Manuscript
which could be helpful in the effort of deciphering it. Because we were able to
identify statistical measurements that are more dependent on the syntax than on
the semantics, the framework may also serve for text analysis in
language-dependent applications.

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