Probabilistic Analysis of the 4000-year-old Indus Script

• Probabilistic Analysis of an Ancient Undeciphered Script (invited article, IEEE Computer, vol. 43(4), 76-80, April 2010). Abstract on the IEEE Computer webpage.
• Statistical analysis of the Indus script using n-grams (with N. Yadav et al., PLOS One, 5(3): e9506, March 2010)
• A Markov model of the Indus script (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), vol. 106, 13685-13690, August 2009). Abstract on the PNAS webpage.
• Entropic evidence for linguistic structure in the Indus script (Science, vol. 324, p. 1165, May 2009). Abstract on the Science webpage.
• Press coverage
• Computing research highlight of the week
• Entropy, the Indus script, and language: A reply to R. Sproat (Computational Linguistics, vol. 36(4), 2010). PDF preprint .
• Rebuttal of Sproat, Farmer and other Indus "non-script" adherents
• Indus script research group website

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