A Markov model of the Indus script

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 33, 2009, Pages 13685-13690

  Rao, Rajesh P N ^a   Yadav, Nisha ^b,c   Vahia, Mayank N ^b,c   Joglekar, Hrishikesh ^d   Adhikari, R ^e   Mahadevan, Iravatham ^f  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c UM DAE CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE IN BASIC SCIENCES   (India)

^d Institute of Mathematical Sciences ^*  (India)

^e INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^f Roja Muthiah Research Library   (India)

Author keywords

Ancient scripts; Archaeology; Linguistics; Machine learning; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTIQUITY; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; LINGUISTICS; MACHINE LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CIVILIZATION; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; INDIA; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MARKOV CHAINS; PAKISTAN; WRITING;

EID: 69549122281     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0906237106     Document Type: Article

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