BEGIN:VCALENDAR BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Thesis Proposal - Nada Aldarrab DESCRIPTION:Title: Decipherment of Historical Manuscripts\n \n Committee: \n Jonathan May (chair)\n Aiichiro Nakano\n Aram Galstyan\n Shrikanth Narayanan\n Greg Ver-Steeg\n \n \n Abstract:\n Libraries and archives are filled with enciphered documents from the early modern period. Example documents include encrypted letters, diplomatic correspondences, and books from secret societies. Decipherment of classical ciphers is an essential step to reveal the contents of those historical documents. \n This thesis addresses three historical decipherment problems: 1. Automatically transcribing historical documents. 2. Deciphering noisy ciphers and ciphers with an unknown plaintext language. 3. Parsing numerical ciphers. We show how machine translation techniques can be used to help in decipherment and vice versa.\n \n \n \n \n DTSTART:20211116T150000 LOCATION: URL;VALUE=URI: DTEND:20211116T170000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR