{"id":211,"date":"2010-07-01T17:24:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T06:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/?p=211"},"modified":"2010-07-01T17:24:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T06:24:54","slug":"computer-deciphers-ugaritic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"computer deciphers ugaritic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noticed an interesting article about using computer software to decipher an ancient language, in this case Ugaritic. The article is <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/newsoffice\/2010\/ugaritic-barzilay-0630.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. There are, of course, a few caveats which are worthy of note. Ugaritic was chosen because it is well understood so the computer&#8217;s results could be checked. Furthermore, it only works if a series of rather special prerequisites are met: the unknown language must be a reasonably close cognate with a known language, its writing must map onto that of the known language, and others. It also looks as though it only works for alphabetic scripts.<\/p>\n<p>Still, perhaps Google will provide a Ugaritic language option soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noticed an interesting article about using computer software to decipher an ancient language, in this case Ugaritic. The article is here. There are, of course, a few caveats which are worthy of note. Ugaritic was chosen because it is well understood so the computer&#8217;s results could be checked. Furthermore, it only works if a series&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}