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by taffronaut 526 days ago
From TFA "decoding rare and lost languages of which hardly any traces survive". Assuming that's not hype, let's see it have a go at Rongorongo[1] then.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongorongo
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nick238 526 days ago
and Linear A [1]. To be fair, whatever model would require data about the context of where the texts were found unless the corpus is massive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A

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shellfishgene 526 days ago
It's mentioned in the article that they hope the model for Linear B can also help with Linear A.
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