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View article: Metaphors and the Invention of Writing
Metaphors and the Invention of Writing Open
The foundation of ancient, invented writing systems lies in the predominant iconicity of their sign shapes. However, these shapes are often used not for their referential meaning but in a metaphorical way, whereby one entity stands for ano…
View article: Seals and signs: tracing the origins of writing in ancient South-west Asia
Seals and signs: tracing the origins of writing in ancient South-west Asia Open
Administrative innovations in South-west Asia during the fourth millennium BC, including the cylinder seals that were rolled on the earliest clay tablets, laid the foundations for proto-cuneiform script, one of the first writing systems. S…
View article: Disambiguating Numeral Sequences to Decipher Ancient Accounting Corpora
Disambiguating Numeral Sequences to Decipher Ancient Accounting Corpora Open
A numeration system encodes abstract numeric quantities as concrete strings of written characters. The numeration systems used by modern scripts tend to be precise and unambiguous, but this was not so for the ancient and partially-decipher…
View article: Learning the Character Inventories of Undeciphered Scripts Using Unsupervised Deep Clustering
Learning the Character Inventories of Undeciphered Scripts Using Unsupervised Deep Clustering Open
A crucial step in deciphering a text is to identify what set of characters were used to write it. This requires grouping character tokens according to visual and contextual features, which can be challenging for human analysts when the num…
View article: Sequence Models for Document Structure Identification in an Undeciphered Script
Sequence Models for Document Structure Identification in an Undeciphered Script Open
This work describes the first thorough analysis of “header” signs in proto-Elamite, an undeciphered script from 3100-2900 BCE. Headers are a category of signs which have been provisionally identified through painstaking manual analysis of …
View article: Compositionality of Complex Graphemes in the Undeciphered Proto-Elamite Script using Image and Text Embedding Models
Compositionality of Complex Graphemes in the Undeciphered Proto-Elamite Script using Image and Text Embedding Models Open
We introduce a language modeling architecture which operates over sequences of images, or over multimodal sequences of images with associated labels.We use this architecture alongside other embedding models to investigate a category of sig…
View article: Refining tumor-associated aneuploidy through ‘genomic recoding’ of recurrent DNA copy number aberrations in 150 canine non-Hodgkin lymphomas
Refining tumor-associated aneuploidy through ‘genomic recoding’ of recurrent DNA copy number aberrations in 150 canine non-Hodgkin lymphomas Open
Identification of the genomic regions most intimately associated with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) pathogenesis is confounded by the genetic heterogeneity of human populations. We hypothesize that the restricted genetic variation of purebr…
View article: Gender, age, and labour organization in the earliest texts from Mesopotamia and Iran (c. 3300-2900 BC)
Gender, age, and labour organization in the earliest texts from Mesopotamia and Iran (c. 3300-2900 BC) Open
Clay tablets in the Proto-cuneiform script (c. 3300–3000 BC) of ancient Iraq and the Proto-Elamite script (c. 3100–2900 BC) of ancient Iran represent two of the earliest inventions of writing in the world—both of which are only partially d…