Monday, July 20, 2009

There's something about "A Treatise on the Astrolabe"

From this paper on natural language classification by character frequency:

A strange result I found was that nearly all of the incorrect classifications of Middle English were in a specific file of A Treatise on the Astrolabe by Chaucer. The other texts by Chaucer had much greater accuracy than the average shown in the graphs.

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