# Hermalin 2023: A Mutual Information-based Approach to Quantifying Logography in Japanese and Sumerian

> Noah Hermalin, 2023. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The datasets survey proposes the same measure for placing the manuscript's script among…

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# A Mutual Information-based Approach to Quantifying Logography in Japanese and Sumerian

Noah Hermalin, 2023. _Proceedings of the Workshop on Computation and Written Language (CAWL 2023)_.

Measures how logographic a writing system is by the mutual information between its signs and the words they write, applied to Japanese and Sumerian.

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The datasets survey proposes the same measure for placing the manuscript's script among writing-system types.

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Hermalin, N. (2023). A Mutual Information-based Approach to Quantifying Logography in Japanese and Sumerian. Proceedings of the Workshop on Computation and Written Language (CAWL 2023). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.cawl-1.12
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