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Sign Clustering and Topic Extraction in Proto-Elamite
Logan Born, Kate Kelley, Nishant Kambhatla, Carolyn Chen, Anoop Sarkar
We describe a first attempt at using techniques from computational linguistics to analyze the undeciphered proto-Elamite script. Using hierarchical clustering, n-gram frequencies, and LDA topic models, we both replicate results obtained by manual decipherment and reveal previously-unobserved relationships between signs. This demonstrates the utility of these techniques as an aid to manual decipherment.
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