Study questions reliability of statistical measures in script decipherment; SIGIL shows 3,000-text corpus with explicit compositional meanings but undeciphered signs
Read the original at arxiv.org→arXiv:2608.02999v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Statistical regularities are routinely offered as evidence that undeciphered sign systems encode language; the Indus script debate is the canonical example. Any such...
Original headline: "On the Non-Specificity of Statistical Measures Used in Script Decipherment"
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