Final Project

The final project is to decipher something. The script may have been deciphered before but you can do it using a computational decipherment. Or the script may be undeciphered. The project can also be on the application of decipherment techniques to NLP tasks such as machine translation.

Undeciphered scripts

• Proto Elamite
• Linear A
• Voynich ms.

Deciphered or well-known scripts

• Linear B
• Mayan hieroglyphics
• Egyptian hieroglyphics or demotic script
• Chinese script into pinyin
• Urdu script into Devanagiri

More information about deciphered scripts

Applications of decipherment

• Adversarial text into plain text
• Decipherment for pivoting from low resource to high resource languages in SMT