Quantitative methods for classifying writing systems

Authors:
Gerald Penn;Travis Choma
Affiliations:
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada;Cognitive Science Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Venue:
NAACL-Short '06 Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL, Companion Volume: Short Papers
Year:
2006

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Abstract

We describe work in progress on using quantitative methods to classify writing systems according to Sproat's (2000) classification grid using unannotated data. We specifically propose two quantitative tests for determining the type of phonography in a writing system, and its degree of logography, respectively.