A computational approach to deciphering unknown scripts

Kevin Knight, Kenji Yamada, 1999. Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Unsupervised Learning in Natural Language Processing: 37–44.

An early paper treating the decipherment of unknown scripts as a statistical learning problem, recovering sound values for written symbols with the EM algorithm in tests on known languages.

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The book (chapter 22) cites it for the two-state hidden Markov model that separates vowels from consonants without being told which is which.

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Knight, K., & Yamada, K. (1999). A computational approach to deciphering unknown scripts. Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Unsupervised Learning in Natural Language Processing, 37–44.

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Knight, Kevin and Kenji Yamada. “A computational approach to deciphering unknown scripts.” Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Unsupervised Learning in Natural Language Processing (1999): 37–44.