arxivcs.HCcs.CLcs.CV2026-07-20
AlphaOracle: Oracle bone script decipherment via human-workflow-inspired deep learning
Yuliang Liu, Haisu Guan, Pengjie Wang, Xinyu Wang, Jinpeng Wan, Kaile Zhang, et al.
Approximately 3,000 of the 4,500 oracle bone script (OBS) characters remain undeciphered due to fragmentary inscriptions and sparse evidence. Current AI approaches fail to replicate expert workflows that integrate form analysis, contextual semantics, and philological reasoning. W…