# With a machine-readable REM, distributional and cross-lingual methods will propose testable meanings.

> Still possible: With a machine-readable REM, distributional and cross-lingual methods will propose testable meanings.

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# With a machine-readable REM, distributional and cross-lingual methods will propose testable meanings.

With a machine-readable REM, distributional and cross-lingual methods will propose testable meanings.

**Still possible** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Its tests haven't settled it: one piece of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Embeddings trained on a full corpus recover known semantic groupings (kingship, gods, kinship terms).
- Alignment with Old Nubian performs better than with Late Egyptian.

## What would rule it out

- With the full corpus, embeddings fail to recover known word groups better than chance.

## Evidence 1 for · none against

[On 871 texts, embeddings captured some semantic structure; cross-lingual lexicon induction with Late Egyptian…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/meroitic/evidence/EVD0CVV05R84N1Q/on-871-texts-embeddings-captured-some-semantic-structure)

Suggestive

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## The questions it answers

[Can computational methods extend the Meroitic lexicon?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/meroitic/questions/QST0CVV00W036KC/can-computational-methods-extend-the-meroitic-lexicon)

Part of [What language family does Meroitic belong to?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/meroitic/questions/QST0CVV004J766H/what-language-family-does-meroitic-belong-to)

Open2 answers, none ahead

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). With a machine-readable REM, distributional and cross-lingual methods will propose testable meanings. [Answer ANS0CVV05GE1APR]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0CVV05GE1APR
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