AI Nushu: An Exploration of Language Emergence in Sisterhood -Through the Lens of Computational Linguistics
It offers an artistic and computational exploration of non-western script creation, but is incremental as it applies existing AI methods to a novel cultural context.
This paper tackles the problem of simulating language emergence by training two AI agents on Chinese and Nushu corpora to collaboratively create a standard writing system for encoding Chinese, resulting in an artistic installation that integrates AI with cultural and feminist perspectives.
This paper presents "AI Nushu," an emerging language system inspired by Nushu (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 Nushu 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.