As the origin of the Tifinagh script remains uncertain, this work aims at exploring its probable relatedness with the Phoenician script. Using tools from within topological data analysis and graph theory, the similarity between the two scripts is studied. The clustering of their letter shapes is...

A time series can often be characterized using machine learning techniques, which require feature vectors as input. The quality of the feature vectors reflects the accuracy of the utilized machine learning techniques. We propose a method for combining features extracted from two popular...

Emoji have become an ipso facto universal language that fit in perfectly with informal routine digital communications, especially on mobile devices and on social media. Marketers and advertisers have taken notice of this communicative phenomenon and have started tapping into the emotive power of...