Discovering the linear writing order of a two-dimensional ancient hieroglyphic script

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 170, Issue 4-5, 2006, Pages 409-421

  De Lin, Shou ^a   Knight, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancient script; Decipher; Discovery; Estimation maximization; Hieroglyphic; Linear order; Luwian; Natural language process; Unsupervised learning; Writing system

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FORMAL LANGUAGES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

ANCIENT SCRIPT; ESTIMATION-MAXIMIZATION; HIEROGLYPHIC; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESS; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING; WRITING SYSTEM;

CHARACTER SETS;

EID: 32944464783     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2005.12.001     Document Type: Article

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