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Deciphering Undersegmented Ancient Scripts Using Phonetic Prior

Jiaming Luo, Frederik Hartmann, Enrico Santus et al., 2021. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

Presents a decipherment model for scripts without reliable word division and with no known closest language, learning segmentation and cognate alignment together under phonetic constraints built from IPA-based character embeddings.

MYS08HTEHX052AX · mystery · click to copyMVoynich ManuscriptArticledoi: 10.1162/tacl_a_00354Checked against the original0

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The cryptanalysis and bioinformatics surveys propose running it as a language-identification test on the Voynich text, after first checking it on control texts.

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Signal processing, cryptanalysis, mathematics, linguistics, inductive methods
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Luo, J., Hartmann, F., Santus, E., Barzilay, R., & Cao, Y. (2021). Deciphering Undersegmented Ancient Scripts Using Phonetic Prior. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00354
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