Computer experiments on the Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon.

This article presents a new theoretical framework for computer-assisted decipherment of ancient alphabetic inscriptions. This framework is based on regular expressions, a widely used computer science formalism for encoding text strings with partially unknown characters. We then present a new softwar...

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Publicado en:Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 816 - 837
Autores principales: Levy, Eythan, Pluquet, Frédéric
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Dec2017
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