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A probabilistic model of Ancient Egyptian writing

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Date
01/07/2017
Author
Nederhof, Mark Jan
Rahman, Fahrurrozi
Keywords
Ancient Egyptian
Writing systems
Language models
D051 Ancient History
P Philology. Linguistics
PI Oriental languages and literatures
QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Language and Linguistics
Artificial Intelligence
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Abstract
This article offers a formalization of how signs form words in Ancient Egyptian writing, for either hieroglyphic or hieratic texts. The formalization is in terms of a sequence of sign functions, which concurrently produce a sequence of signs and a sequence of phonemes. By involving a class of probabilistic automata, we can define the most likely sequence of sign functions that relates a given sequence of signs to a given sequence of phonemes. Experiments with two texts are discussed.
Citation
Nederhof , M J & Rahman , F 2017 , ' A probabilistic model of Ancient Egyptian writing ' , Journal of Language Modelling , vol. 5 , no. 1 , pp. 131-163 . https://doi.org/10.15398/jlm.v5i1.150
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Journal of Language Modelling
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.15398/jlm.v5i1.150
ISSN
2299-8470
Type
Journal article
Rights
Copyright the Authors 2017. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11143

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