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Audit result: attribution infrastructure is already thorough. CITATIONS.md (1,340+ lines) covers every corpus, paper, algorithm, and software dependency with full BibTeX and license analysis. DATA_LICENSES.md confirms all released outputs are license-clean. Quarantine directory properly holds unclear-license materials (empty). Changes in this commit: - ATTRIBUTION.md (new): public-facing front door summarising all data sources, license compliance, and a prominent contact statement: 'Email tpierson@bitconcepts.tech — we respond within 48 hours' for any attribution concern from researchers or rights-holders - CITATION.cff: corrected preprint title to match actual v2 paper, added Zenodo DOI (10.5281/ZENODO.20414696), added author email - CITATIONS.md: updated last-modified date, added email contact line Co-Authored-By: Oz <oz-agent@warp.dev>
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# Attribution, Data Sources & Contact
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**Glossa-Lab** is an open-source AI-assisted research platform for the computational
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analysis of ancient and undeciphered writing systems. This project depends on the
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work of many scholars and data providers whose contributions we are committed to
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crediting accurately.
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---
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## If a citation or credit is missing — contact us immediately
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If you are a researcher, data provider, or rights-holder and you believe your work
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has been used without proper attribution, or if you have any concern about how your
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material appears in this project:
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**Please contact Tristen Kyle Pierson directly:**
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> **Email:** tpierson@bitconcepts.tech
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> **Subject line:** "Attribution concern — Glossa-Lab"
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We treat attribution concerns as urgent. You will receive a response within 48 hours.
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If the concern is valid, we will correct the attribution, update the repository, and
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update any published outputs immediately.
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You may also open a GitHub issue at:
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https://github.com/BitConcepts/glossa-lab/issues
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---
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## Primary data sources
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All data sources used in this project are documented in detail in
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[CITATIONS.md](./CITATIONS.md). Key sources include:
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| Source | Authors | License | Used for |
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| Holdat LLC Indus Corpus v3 | Miller 2025 | Proprietary — statistical derivatives only, no raw data redistributed | Primary inscription corpus |
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| Mahadevan 1977 (M77) | Iravatham Mahadevan | Public domain (ASI / Govt. of India) | Sign numbering (M001–M397) |
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| DEDR | Burrow & Emeneau 1984 | © Clarendon Press — reference use | Dravidian etymological evidence |
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| Parpola 1994 / 2010 | Asko Parpola | © CUP / open conference paper | Decipherment framework, phoneme map |
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| ePSD2 | Tinney et al. / Penn | CC BY-SA | Sumerian/Akkadian name corpus |
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| CDLI | Englund et al. | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 | Bibliographic reference only (no data committed) |
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| CISI Vols 1–3 | Joshi, Shah, Parpola et al. | © Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia | Reference only (no data redistributed) |
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| Wells 2006 / 2015 | Bryan K. Wells | Open access / © Archaeopress | Sign list cross-reference |
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| Fuls 2022/2023 | Andreas Fuls | © independently published | Sign catalog cross-reference |
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| ICIT | Wells & Fuls | Restricted (TU Berlin) | API reference; no data committed |
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| Nair 2026 | Ashish Nair | CC BY (arXiv) | Independent replication study cited |
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| Laursen 2010 | Steffen Terp Laursen | © Wiley / AAE | Gulf seal catalog, fish-sign validation |
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| Crawford 2001 | Harriet Crawford | © Archaeology International | Dilmun/Saar seal reference |
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| ePSD2 names subset | Penn Babylonian Section | CC BY-SA | Meluhhan name matching (null results) |
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| Tamburini 2025 | Fabio Tamburini | CC BY (Frontiers) | SA algorithm methodology reference |
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For the complete bibliography with BibTeX entries, license analysis, and per-file
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attribution, see [CITATIONS.md](./CITATIONS.md) and
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[research/indus/DATA_LICENSES.md](./research/indus/DATA_LICENSES.md).
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---
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## License compliance summary
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- **Holdat LLC corpus (proprietary):** Not redistributed. Only statistical
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derivatives (positional frequencies, bigram counts, candidate readings) appear
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in outputs.
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- **ePSD2 (CC BY-SA):** Used only for Meluhhan name matching experiments that
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produced null results. Not incorporated into released research outputs.
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The CC BY 4.0 licence on `research/indus/` outputs is unaffected.
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- **CDLI (CC BY-NC-SA):** No CDLI tablet text committed to this repository.
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All CDLI references are bibliographic only.
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- **Copyrighted academic sources (CISI, Parpola 1994, Mahadevan 2003):** Used
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as structured analytical references (sign numbers, phoneme assignments, crosswalk
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mappings). No verbatim text reproduced. Defensible as academic fair use / fair
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dealing.
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- **PyMuPDF (AGPL):** Used only in standalone research scripts, not in the
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deployed backend. AGPL network-use provisions do not apply.
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Released research outputs (`research/indus/`, anchor tables, phase reports,
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supplemental datasets) are original analysis released under **CC BY 4.0**.
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## Acknowledgements
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This project is indebted to the following scholars and institutions
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(see [CITATIONS.md §Acknowledgements](./CITATIONS.md) for full details):
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Iravatham Mahadevan (1930–2018) · Asko Parpola · Bryan K. Wells ·
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Andreas Fuls · William Miller Sr (Holdat LLC) · Ashish Nair ·
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Steffen Terp Laursen · Harriet Crawford · Petteri Koskikallio ·
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Roja Muthiah Research Library (Chennai) · University of Pennsylvania Museum ·
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TIFR (Rao, Yadav, Vahia, Joglekar, Adhikari) · Tamburini (Frontiers AI)
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## How to cite Glossa-Lab
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```bibtex
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@software{glossalab2026,
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author = {Pierson, Tristen Kyle},
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title = {Glossa-Lab: An agentic computational linguistics research platform
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for statistical analysis and decipherment of ancient writing systems},
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year = {2026},
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url = {https://github.com/BitConcepts/glossa-lab},
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note = {BitConcepts LLC. MIT licence (source); CC BY 4.0 (research outputs).}
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}
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```
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*Last reviewed: June 2026. Contact tpierson@bitconcepts.tech for any attribution
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concern — we respond within 48 hours.*

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A Falsifiable Computational Decipherment Hypothesis for the Indus Valley Script:
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605 Proto-Dravidian Sign Readings Validated Across Two Independent Corpora
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161 Candidate Proto-Dravidian Anchors and a Three-Slot Positional Grammar
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authors:
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- family-names: Pierson
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given-names: Tristen Kyle
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affiliation: "BitConcepts LLC"
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email: tpierson@bitconcepts.tech
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year: 2026
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doi: "10.5281/ZENODO.20414696"
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notes: "Preprint v2 — Not peer-reviewed"
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url: "https://github.com/BitConcepts/glossa-lab/tree/main/research/indus"
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url: "https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.20414696"

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*Last updated: June 2026. For attribution concerns contact tpierson@bitconcepts.tech — we respond within 48 hours. See also ATTRIBUTION.md.*
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