摘要：This article offers a formalization of how signs form words in Ancient Egyptian writing,for either hieroglyphic or hieratic texts.The formalization is in terms of a sequence of sign functions,which concurrently produce a sequence of signs and a sequence of phonemes.By involv_ing a class of probabilistic automata,we can define the most likely sequence of sign functions that relates a given sequence of signs to a given sequence of phonemes.Experiments with two texts are dis?cussed.
