2022-02-11
How might AI help decode the ancient Indus script, left to us in 4,000 excavated inscriptions that have puzzled scholars for the past century? Learn more about the relationship between technology and deciphering “long-lost” languages:https://restofworld.org/ ...
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How researchers are using AI to analyze the undeciphered ancient script of the Indus Valley Civilization, and the challenges of deciphering long-lost languages
Scholars have spent a century trying to decipher ancient Indus script. Machine learning may finally help make sense of it all.
2021-02-10
Spoken by almost 170 million people globally, Urdu's digital future is in peril. In the absence of keyboards in nasta'līq—a script like “the wings of flying geese”—users resort to transliteration with Latin fonts. @AlizehKohari investigates. https://restofworld.org/...
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How a Pakistan-born developer's open letter to Tim Cook helped bring the Urdu language typeface to Apple devices
a script like “the wings of flying geese”—users resort to transliteration with Latin fonts. @AlizehKohari investigates. https://restofworld.org/... Tori Elliott / @telliotter : If ...