A probabilistic model of Ancient Egyptian writing

Journal of Language Modelling

Fahrurrozi Rahman¹  Mark-Jan Nederhof¹ 

[1] University of St Andrews;

关键词: Ancient Egyptian;    writing systems;    language models;   

DOI  :  10.15398/jlm.v5i1.150

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This article offers a formalization of how signs form words in Ancient Egyptian writing, for either hieroglyphic or hieratic texts.  The formalization is in terms of a sequence of sign functions, which concurrently produce a sequence of signs and a sequence of phonemes. By involving a class of probabilistic automata, we can define the most likely sequence of sign functions that relates a given sequence of signs to a given sequence of phonemes. Experiments with two texts are discussed.

【 授权许可】

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