A probabilistic model of Ancient Egyptian writing
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 proba...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences
2017-07-01
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| Series: | Journal of Language Modelling |
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| Online Access: | https://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/article/view/150 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 2299-856X 2299-8470 |