A probabilistic model of Ancient Egyptian writing

Mark Jan Nederhof; Fahrurrozi Rahman

doi:10.15398/jlm.v5i1.150

A probabilistic model of Ancient Egyptian writing

Mark Jan Nederhof, Fahrurrozi Rahman

School of Computer Science

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	131-163
Journal	Journal of Language Modelling
Volume	5
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.15398/jlm.v5i1.150
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2017

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Ancient Egyptian
Writing systems
Language models

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