AI Nüshu: An Exploration of Language Emergence in Sisterhood Through the Lens of Computational Linguistics
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This paper presents “AI Nüshu," an emerging language system inspired by Nüshu (women’s scripts), the unique language created and used exclusively by ancient Chinese women who were thought to be illiterate under a patriarchal society. In this interactive installation, two artificial intelligence (AI) agents are trained in the Chinese dictionary and the Nüshu corpus. By continually observing their environment and communicating, these agents collaborate towards creating a standard writing system to encode Chinese. It offers an artistic interpretation of the creation of a non-western script from a computational linguistics perspective, integrating AI technology with Chinese cultural heritage and a feminist viewpoint.
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- Authors
- Sun, Y., Tang, Y., Gao, Z., Pan, Z., Xu, C., Chen, Y., Qian, K., Wang, Z., Braud, T., Lee, C. H., & Asadipour, A.
- Affiliations
- Royal College of Art (GB)
- Politecnico di Milano (IT)
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK)
- Ubisoft, China
- New Drama Studio, China
- SOAS University of London (GB)
- King's College London (GB)
- Tsinghua University (CN)
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HK)
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KR)
- ORCID
- Venue
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Art Papers
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2023-12-08
- Pages
- 1-7
- OpenAlex
- W4389476478
- Cited by
- 14
- References
- 13
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 3
- FWCI
- 38.08
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Acknowledge financial support partly from the Extended Reality and Immersive Media (XRIM) Lab at HKUST and the National Social Science Foundation of China (20CJY045).
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Art, Technology, and Culture
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Cybernetics and Technology in Society
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Digital Humanities and Scholarship
- Keywords
- Nüshu, language emergence, AI agents, interactive installation, Chinese writing system, feminist perspectives, cultural heritage, computational linguistics
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