Editing Final Report 2010 (section)

===Further Research===

Our results were supposed to attempt to find the type of text that the Somerton man’s code is from; however there wasn’t any single text type with much more greater than expected occurrences. In fact, other than The Rubaiyat, there were no probabilistic irregularities found. In order to determine if this is significant to unraveling the Somerton Man’s code, further testing is required. This can be done by running the text parser for more code segments, as well as choosing other texts to obtain results on.

Additionally, further testing with poems is needed. Only a small amount of the poem texts tested match the same format as the Rubaiyat (four lines per poem), so tests of other four line poems are needed to determine if the exact initialism results are specific to the Rubaiyat or all/most poems of a similar size. Another method would be to truncate the poem texts to the same size. The Rubaiyat is about 84 poems of 4 lines each, so we can truncate the other poem texts to either 84 poems, or possibly 300-400 lines and then determine if there are any differences in the results. While this truncation method has been done for the tested set of poetry texts, the results can be more accurate with more poetry texts.

Also, at the moment, our results assume that all of the words in the text and in the code are independent of each other. We know this isn’t actually the case and that there is some sort of dependence between initial letters of text. Our results could be expanded by taking this into account and using Markov chains similar to last year’s project group<ref>https://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/personal/dabbott/wiki/index.php/Markov_models</ref>.