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This directory contains the supporting code for "The Taxonomy of Writing Systems: How to Measure how Logographic a System is" article that proposes a novel measure of the degree of logography that uses an attention based sequence-to-sequence model trained to predict the spelling of a token from its pronunciation in context.

If you are using this code, please cite the respective article:

@article{sproat:gutkin:cl:2021,
  title = {The Taxonomy of Writing Systems: How to Measure how Logographic a System is},
  author = {Richard Sproat and Alexander Gutkin},
  journal = {Computational Linguistics},
  volume = {47},
  number = {3},
  pages = {477–-528},
  year = {2021},
  month = sep,
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00409},
  publisher = {MIT Press},
}

We will expanding this documentation in due course. In the meantime, please refer to the README files in individual subdirectories.