Automated Topic Analysis of the Voynich Manuscript

[ReneZ]

Just a question: aren't those p-values extremely low? 8*10E-33 is practically zero already, but 2.8*10E-119 strains my imagination as a meaningful number. But I'm not a statistician, are those p-values normal?

Interesting question.
In hidden Markov modelling, one is working with extremely low probabilities, namely the proability that the piece of text being studied was the outcome of a free-running Markov chain.  To avoid numerical issues, the software works with the logarithm of the probabilities throughout.
Typical values can be -150

The second probability quoted above seems to go into this direction, and while for the Markov case this is understandable, I also don't immediately see how this can be the case here.