TY - JOUR AU - Toth, Lorand Lehel AU - Pardede, Raymond Eliza Ivan AU - Jeney, Gyorgy Andras AU - Kovacs, Ferenc AU - Hosszu, Gabor PY - 2016/07/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Preprocessing Algorithm for Deciphering Historical Inscriptions Using String Metric JF - International Journal of Engineering and Technology Innovation JA - Int. j. eng. technol. innov. VL - 6 IS - 3 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://ojs.imeti.org/index.php/IJETI/article/view/151 SP - 202-213 AB - The article presents the improvements in the preprocessing part of the deciphering method (shortly preprocessing algorithm) for historical inscriptions of unknown origin. Glyphs used in historical inscriptions changed through time; therefore, various versions of the same script may contain different glyphs for each grapheme. The purpose of the preprocessing algorithm is reducing the running time of the deciphering process by filtering out the less probable interpretations of the examined inscription. However, the first version of the preprocessing algorithm leads incorrect outcome or no result in the output in certain cases. Therefore, its improved version was developed to find the most similar words in the dictionary by relaying the search conditions more accurately, but still computationally effectively. Moreover, a sophisticated similarity metric used to determine the possible meaning of the unknown inscription is introduced. The results of the evaluations are also detailed. ER -