Searching Four-Millenia-Old Digitized Documents: A Text Retrieval System for Egyptologists

摘要

Progress made in recent years has led to a growing interest in Digital Heritage. This article focuses on Egyptology and, more specifically, the study and preservation of ancient Egyptian scripts. We present a Text Retrieval system developed specifically to work with hieroglyphic texts. We intend to make it freely available to the research community. To the best of our knowledge this is the first tool of its kind.