How can unknown scripts be deciphered

We focus on the case in which an unfamiliar script encodes a known language. The decipherment of a brief document or inscription is driven by data about the spoken language.

We consider which scripts are easy or hard to decipher, how much data is required, and whether the techniques are robust against language change over time.

View on ACL. Save to Library Save. Create Alert Alert. Share This Paper. Background Citations. Methods Citations. Figures and Topics from this paper. Citation Type. Has PDF. Publication Type. More Filters. Unsupervised Analysis for Decipherment Problems. Highly Influenced. View 3 excerpts, cites background and methods. View 1 excerpt, cites methods. In this paper we propose a method for the automatic decipherment of lost languages.

Given a non-parallel corpus in a known related language, our model produces both alphabetic mappings and … Expand. View 2 excerpts, cites background and methods. Feature-Based Decipherment for Machine Translation. Orthographic similarities across languages provide a strong signal for unsupervised probabilistic transduction decipherment for closely related language pairs.

The existing decipherment models, … Expand. Name deciphering in unrelated languages: The case study of Farsi and English. View 5 excerpts, cites background and methods. Linear A is possibly related to Linear B but the language it was used to write is not known.

On it is inscribed an unknown script and there are many theories about the language it represeents and what it means. No other evidence of this script has been found. The Voynich Manuscript is named after Wilfrid M. Voynich, a Polish antiquarian book dealer who acquired it in It is a lavishly illustrated manuscript codex of pages, written in an unknown script. One theory is that is was written sometime during the 13th century by a Franciscan friar, Roger Bacon Many more attempts have been made to decipher the text but none have succeeded so far.

Some think the manuscript is gibberish, and was probably a practical joke played on Rudolph II. The origin of the codex is uncertain. It is written in an unknown language and script and has defied all attempts to decipher it.

A script once used on Easter Island until the s, after which knowledge of the script was lost. Get 3 months Audible membership for just 99p.

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