Papers by Frederik Hartmann
Deciphering Undersegmented Ancient Scripts Using Phonetic Prior (2021.tacl-1)
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| Challenge: | a number of undeciphered languages are still undecipherated, igniting fierce scientific debate . a recent study shows that NLP methods can successfully decipher lost languages . |
| Approach: | They propose a decipherment model that incorporates phonetic geometry into word segmentation and cognate alignment . they use the International Phonetic Alphabet to learn character embeddings based on historical sound change . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model shows that it can decipher both deciphered and undeciphered languages. |