The aim of this project is to research the possibilities of applying unsupervised learning techniques for natural language and other sequential data to undeciphered texts and manuscripts. The undeciphered text used is the Voynich Manuscript, a mysterious book from the 15th or 16th century that is written in an unknown script. Some methods that could be applied to manuscripts such as these will ...

A generalized Weibull model that allows instantaneous or early failures is modified so that the model can be expressed as a mixture of the uniform distribution and the Weibull distribution. Properties of the resulting distribution are derived; in particular, the probability density function, survival function, and the hazard rate function are obtained. Some selected plots of these functions are...

This paper presents a Scenario-Based Adaptive Service Framework, where we can provide more adaptive service scenarios among highly correlated business applications. Individual services are seamlessly integrated into a framework by registering scripts, written in XML infrastructure language, called the XLogic, to the middleware platform, the XCREAM (XLogic Collaborative RFID/USN-enabled Adaptive...

Typeface technology has become quite complex over the years. There have been several attempts to use Arabic calligraphic styles in computer typography. These proved to be useful, but they had their shortcomings and drawbacks. Computational time cost and lack of Arabic script documentation were the most crucial issues with that work. In a few studies, the accuracy of results obtained also was an...

There are errors in S1 Text and S2 Text that affect the code script. The corrected S1 Text fixes an error in creating Fig. 9. The corrected S2 Text fixes an error that masked the location of a needed function. Please find the corrected files here. S1 Text. PlosOneMRDSAnalysis.txt. A R script file that will replicate the results found in this manuscript. (TXT) S2 Text. Two.Piece.Normal.txt. A R ...

We examined how letter position coding is achieved in a script (Arabic) in which the different letter forms (i.e., allographs) may vary depending on their position within the letter string (e.g., compare the same-ligation pair [see text] and [see text] vs. the different-ligation pair [see text] and [see text]. To that end, we conducted an experiment in Uyghur, an agglutinative language from the...

As Chinese is written without orthographical word boundaries (i.e., spaces), it is unclear whether saccade targets are selected on the basis of characters or words and whether saccades are aimed at the beginning or the centre of words. Here, we report an experiment where 30 Chinese readers read 150 sentences while their eye movements were monitored. They exhibited a strong tendency to fixate at...

Research on written language comprehension has generally assumed that the phonological properties of a word have little effect on sentence comprehension beyond the processes of word recognition. Two experiments investigated this assumption. Participants silently read relative clauses in which two pairs of words either did or did not have a high degree of phonological overlap. Participants were ...

This research paper describes a corpus based transliteration system for Punjabi language. The existence of two scripts for Punjabi language has created a script barrier between the Punjabi literature written in India and in Pakistan. This research project has developed a new system for the first time of its kind for Shahmukhi script of Punjabi language. The proposed system for Shahmukhi to Gurm...