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Shai Gordin

Assyriologist at Ariel University who leads the Digital Pasts Lab and co-authored the neural restoration and Akkadian machine-translation papers.

Shai Gordin is israeli Assyriologist (Ariel University, Digital Pasts Lab), co-author of the 2020 recurrent-network restoration of Babylonian texts and the 2023 Akkadian neural machine translation paper and the Akkademia project, and appears in the record of unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian as assyriologist at Ariel University who leads the Digital Pasts Lab and co-authored the neural restoration and Akkadian machine-translation papers.

Two events on the site involve Gordin, from Fetaya, Lifshitz, Aaron and Gordin publish recurrent-network restoration of broken Babylonian texts (2020) to Gutherz and colleagues publish neural machine translation of Akkadian to English (2 May 2023).

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The unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian
Assyriologist at Ariel University who leads the Digital Pasts Lab and co-authored the neural restoration and Akkadian machine-translation papers. · 2 events
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