# Smith 2008: Constructing word similarities in Meroitic as an aid to decipherment

> Reginald D. Smith, 2008. 2 records on Mysteries Department cite it. An early computational approach to the lexicon.

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# Constructing word similarities in Meroitic as an aid to decipherment

Reginald D. Smith, 2008. _arXiv 0808.3616 (cs.CL)_.

Uses information-theoretic and statistical measures to pair similar Meroitic words and to extend partial meanings from known words to unknown ones.

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## What it's used for here

An early computational approach to the lexicon.

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[Meroitic](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/meroitic)

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

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## Cite it

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Smith, R. D. (2008). Constructing word similarities in Meroitic as an aid to decipherment. arXiv 0808.3616 (cs.CL). https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.3616
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[Read it free at arxiv.org](https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.3616)

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