# Sproat 2010: Ancient Symbols, Computational Linguistics, and the Reviewing Practices of the General Science Journals

> Richard Sproat, 2010. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The linguistic-datasets survey cites it as part of Sproat's critique of the entropy…

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# Ancient Symbols, Computational Linguistics, and the Reviewing Practices of the General Science Journals

Richard Sproat, 2010. _Computational Linguistics_.

A short critical piece in Computational Linguistics arguing that Zipf-like symbol distributions are weak evidence that a sign system is writing, and faulting general science journals for publishing such claims about the Indus script by Rao and colleagues.

**Voynich Manuscript** Articledoi: **[10.1162/coli_a_00011](https://doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00011)** Checked against the original0

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The linguistic-datasets survey cites it as part of Sproat's critique of the entropy argument for the Indus script.

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Sproat, R. (2010). Ancient Symbols, Computational Linguistics, and the Reviewing Practices of the General Science Journals. Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00011
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