I don't want to sound confrontational or contrary, Stephen, but I agree with Torsten.
One has to study and discern the structure first, and then it might make sense to look for nouns/names or whatever might fit the circumstances. It does no good to look for nouns if the text is a self-replicating system or if it is a numerical system, or steganography, or any other of the dozen ways text might be represented other than in a natural-language substitution mode.
The techniques for interpreting an ancient natural language from a known location such as Crete, in the case of Linear B, are not the same as the techniques for unraveling something that may be deliberately hidden, ciphered, or systematically rearranged to obscure the underlying meaning in some way (if there is one), and for which we do not know the origin.
There isn't even a guarantee that labels are labels (they might be peeled apart narrative text, numbers, data pointers, or nonsense), or that the text has anything to do with the images. Figure out these things first, and then maybe natural-language interpretation techniques will become appropriate somewhere along the way (and maybe they won't).
One has to study and discern the structure first, and then it might make sense to look for nouns/names or whatever might fit the circumstances. It does no good to look for nouns if the text is a self-replicating system or if it is a numerical system, or steganography, or any other of the dozen ways text might be represented other than in a natural-language substitution mode.
The techniques for interpreting an ancient natural language from a known location such as Crete, in the case of Linear B, are not the same as the techniques for unraveling something that may be deliberately hidden, ciphered, or systematically rearranged to obscure the underlying meaning in some way (if there is one), and for which we do not know the origin.
There isn't even a guarantee that labels are labels (they might be peeled apart narrative text, numbers, data pointers, or nonsense), or that the text has anything to do with the images. Figure out these things first, and then maybe natural-language interpretation techniques will become appropriate somewhere along the way (and maybe they won't).