Cracking the code: How a “prediction machine” is resurrecting the Singapore Stone
- Written by Francesco Perono Cacciafoco, Associate Professor in Linguistics, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Singapore Stonewikipedia.org, CC BYSeveral years ago, my linguistic research team and I began developing a computational tool we call ‘Read-y Grammarian’. Our goal was to reconstruct the highly fragmentary text of the Singapore Stone, a relic from the 10th to 14th centuries that features an undeciphered script similar to Kawi.
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