A Probabilistic Model of Ancient Egyptian Writing
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This article investigates a probabilistic model to describe how signs form words in Ancient Egyptian writing. This applies to both hieroglyphic and hieratic texts. The model uses an intermediate layer of sign functions. Experiments are concerned with finding the most likely sequence of sign functions that relates a given sequence of signs and a given sequence of phonemes.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- J. Language Modelling
دوره 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015