# Shai Gordin · Person

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

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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.

[The unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform)[2 events][2 sources]

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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## In the mysteries

**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

[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform)

## What Shai Gordin did 2

2020[Fetaya, Lifshitz, Aaron and Gordin publish recurrent-network restoration of broken Babylonian texts](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/events/EVT0DEDPGKBNTQA/fetaya-lifshitz-aaron-and-gordin-publish-recurrent-network)

2 May 2023[Gutherz and colleagues publish neural machine translation of Akkadian to English](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/events/EVT0DEDPHKBWD2T/gutherz-and-colleagues-publish-neural-machine-translation-of)

## Sources 2

[Translating Akkadian to English with neural machine translation](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGBY5JRWS/translating-akkadian-to-english-with-neural-machine)

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[Restoration of fragmentary Babylonian texts using recurrent neural networks](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGV4PQG6J/restoration-of-fragmentary-babylonian-texts-using-recurrent)

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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

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