[PDF][PDF] Machine learning for ancient languages: A survey

T Sommerschield, Y Assael, J Pavlopoulos… - Computational …, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Ancient languages preserve the cultures and histories of the past. However, their study is
fraught with difficulties, and experts must tackle a range of challenging text-based tasks, from …

Restoration of fragmentary Babylonian texts using recurrent neural networks

E Fetaya, Y Lifshitz, E Aaron… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The main sources of information regarding ancient Mesopotamian history and culture are
clay cuneiform tablets. Many of these tablets are damaged, leading to missing information …

Reading Akkadian cuneiform using natural language processing

S Gordin, G Gutherz, A Elazary, A Romach, E Jiménez… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
In this paper we present a new method for automatic transliteration and segmentation of
Unicode cuneiform glyphs using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques …

[PDF][PDF] Contributions to computational assyriology

A Sahala - Helsinki: University of Helsinki. http://hdl. handle. net …, 2021 - researchgate.net
This thesis explores the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) on the ancient
Mesopotamian primary sources, especially those written in the Akkadian language …

Illumination-based augmentation for cuneiform deep neural sign classification

C Rest, D Fisseler, F Weichert, T Somel… - Journal on Computing …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Automated content-based search for arbitrary cuneiform signs in photographic reproductions
is a challenging task in the analysis of ancient documents, a central component of which is a …

Preparing multi-layered visualisations of Old Babylonian cuneiform tablets for a machine learning OCR training model towards automated sign recognition

H Hameeuw, K De Graef, GR Smidt… - it-Information …, 2024 - degruyter.com
In the framework of the CUNE-IIIF-ORM project the aim is to train an Artificial Intelligence
Optical Character Recognition (AI-OCR) model that can automatically locate and identify …

Review of Computational Epigraphy

V Kumar - arxiv preprint arxiv:2406.06570, 2024 - arxiv.org
Computational Epigraphy refers to the process of extracting text from stone inscription,
transliteration, interpretation, and attribution with the aid of computational methods …

Automated Cuneiform Symbol Detection and Translation Using Deep Learning Techniques

S Elshehaby, M Al-Saad, A Panthakkan… - 2024 7th …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces an automated methodology for the detection and translation of
cuneiform symbols using high-level deep learning techniques. A total of five deep learning …

Analyzing handwritten and transcribed symbols in disparate corpora

BR Bogacz - 2018 - archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de
Cuneiform tablets appertain to the oldest textual artifacts used for more than three millennia
and are comparable in amount and relevance to texts written in Latin or ancient Greek …

[PDF][PDF] Transliteration of Non-Latin Texts: From Everyday Practice to Linguistic Technologies

M Vakulenko - Proceedings of the World Conference on Foreign …, 2024 - academia.edu
This paper discusses various transcoding systems that convert non-Latin texts into Latin
script. Particularly significant is the Romanization of Slavic languages. The Latinization …