Showing posts with label linguistics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label linguistics. Show all posts

Friday, April 24, 2009

Artificial Intelligence Cracks 4,000-Year-Old Mystery


From Wired News:

An ancient script that's defied generations of archaeologists has yielded some of its secrets to artificially intelligent computers.

Computational analysis of symbols used 4,000 years ago by a long-lost Indus Valley civilization suggests they represent a spoken language. Some frustrated linguists thought the symbols were merely pretty pictures.

"The underlying grammatical structure seems similar to what's found in many languages," said University of Washington computer scientist Rajesh Rao.

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