AI Nüshu: An Exploration of Language Emergence in Sisterhood Through the Lens of Computational Linguistics

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Sun, Yuqian and Tang, Yuying and Gao, Ze and Pan, Aldrich Zhijun and Xu, Chuyan and Chen, Yurou and Qian, Kejiang and Wang, Zhigang and Braud, Tristan and Lee, Chang Hee and Asadipour, Ali (2023) AI Nüshu: An Exploration of Language Emergence in Sisterhood Through the Lens of Computational Linguistics. In: ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2023, 12-15 December 2023, Sydney, Australia.

Type of Research:	Conference, Symposium or Workshop Item
Creators:	Sun, Yuqian and Tang, Yuying and Gao, Ze and Pan, Aldrich Zhijun and Xu, Chuyan and Chen, Yurou and Qian, Kejiang and Wang, Zhigang and Braud, Tristan and Lee, Chang Hee and Asadipour, Ali
Description:	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.
Official Website:	https://asia.siggraph.org/2023/
Your affiliations with UAL:	Research Centres/Networks > Institute for Creative Computing
Date:	8 December 2023
Event Location:	Sydney, Australia
Date Deposited:	09 Jan 2026 15:56
Last Modified:	09 Jan 2026 15:56
Item ID:	25407
URI:	https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/25407
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