Enabling Stroke-Level Structural Analysis of Hieroglyphic Scripts without Language-Specific Priors (2026.findings-acl)
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Fuwen Luo, Zihao Wan, Ziyue Wang, Yaluo Liu, Pau Tong Lin Xu, Xuanjia Qiao, Xiaolong Wang, Peng Li, Yang Liu
| Challenge: | Existing structural analysis methods for hieroglyphic scripts are script-specific and labor-intensive. |
| Approach: | They propose a hieroglyphic Stroke Analyzer framework that captures character-internal structures and semantics without handcrafted data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework captures character-internal structures and semantics without priors . it can be used to generalize hieroglyphic scripts across languages . |
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