# Otten 2025: Towards Ancient Meroitic Decipherment: A Computational Approach > Joshua Otten, Antonios Anastasopoulos, 2025. 5 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The only open machine-readable corpus and a first embedding… Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CVTZRT66TY9/towards-ancient-meroitic-decipherment-a-computational Publisher: Mysteries Department Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page) --- [Sources](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources)[Meroitic](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/meroitic)Otten 2025 **0** # Towards Ancient Meroitic Decipherment: A Computational Approach Joshua Otten, Antonios Anastasopoulos, 2025. _Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Ancient Language Processing (ALP 2025), ACL, pp. 87 to 98_. Builds what it calls the first machine-readable Meroitic corpus (871 texts and phrases from Lobban's vocabulary, Rilly 2007 and Millet 1968, plus three long royal texts), augments it by swapping names, trains word embeddings and tries cross-lingual alignment with Late Egyptian. Notes that the REM survives only as page images. **Meroitic** Articledoi: **[10.18653/v1/2025.alp-1.11](https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.alp-1.11)** Checked against the original0 ## What it's used for here The only open machine-readable corpus and a first embedding baseline. ## The document 12 pages [Pages][Text]Page 1 of 12 [![Page 1](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/v/281d3db421e8f083d61e7b80d0c4ca3fa797ddff7daa0ba70168b4fb96fe1d00/p1)1][![Page 2](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/v/281d3db421e8f083d61e7b80d0c4ca3fa797ddff7daa0ba70168b4fb96fe1d00/p2)2][![Page 3](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/v/281d3db421e8f083d61e7b80d0c4ca3fa797ddff7daa0ba70168b4fb96fe1d00/p3)3][![Page 4](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/v/281d3db421e8f083d61e7b80d0c4ca3fa797ddff7daa0ba70168b4fb96fe1d00/p4)4][![Page 5](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/v/281d3db421e8f083d61e7b80d0c4ca3fa797ddff7daa0ba70168b4fb96fe1d00/p5)5][![Page 6](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/v/281d3db421e8f083d61e7b80d0c4ca3fa797ddff7daa0ba70168b4fb96fe1d00/p6)6][![Page 7](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/v/281d3db421e8f083d61e7b80d0c4ca3fa797ddff7daa0ba70168b4fb96fe1d00/p7)7][![Page 8](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/v/281d3db421e8f083d61e7b80d0c4ca3fa797ddff7daa0ba70168b4fb96fe1d00/p8)8][![Page 9](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/v/281d3db421e8f083d61e7b80d0c4ca3fa797ddff7daa0ba70168b4fb96fe1d00/p9)9][![Page 10](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/v/281d3db421e8f083d61e7b80d0c4ca3fa797ddff7daa0ba70168b4fb96fe1d00/p10)10][![Page 11](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/v/281d3db421e8f083d61e7b80d0c4ca3fa797ddff7daa0ba70168b4fb96fe1d00/p11)11][![Page 12](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/v/281d3db421e8f083d61e7b80d0c4ca3fa797ddff7daa0ba70168b4fb96fe1d00/p12)12] ![Page 1 of Towards Ancient Meroitic Decipherment: A Computational Approach](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/v/281d3db421e8f083d61e7b80d0c4ca3fa797ddff7daa0ba70168b4fb96fe1d00/p1) Text taken from the file. Check it against the page. ## Cited by on this site 5 records [With a machine-readable REM, distributional and cross-lingual methods will propose testable meanings.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/meroitic/answers/ANS0CVV05GE1APR/with-a-machine-readable-rem-distributional-and-cross-lingual) Answer ANS [On 871 texts, embeddings captured some semantic structure; cross-lingual lexicon induction with Late Egyptian…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/meroitic/evidence/EVD0CVV05R84N1Q/on-871-texts-embeddings-captured-some-semantic-structure) Evidence EVD [Otten and Anastasopoulos release a machine-readable Meroitic corpus](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/meroitic/events/EVT0CVTZZWR29SQ/otten-and-anastasopoulos-release-a-machine-readable-meroitic) EVT [Meroitic](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/meroitic) The mystery article MYS [Can computational methods extend the Meroitic lexicon?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/meroitic/questions/QST0CVV00W036KC/can-computational-methods-extend-the-meroitic-lexicon) Question QST ## Cite it ``` Otten, J., & Anastasopoulos, A. (2025). Towards Ancient Meroitic Decipherment: A Computational Approach. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Ancient Language Processing (ALP 2025), ACL, pp. 87 to 98. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.alp-1.11 ``` [Read it free at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.alp-1.11)[Download PDF · 862 KB](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/d/281d3db421e8f083d61e7b80d0c4ca3fa797ddff7daa0ba70168b4fb96fe1d00) Anyone can read it here; members can download it. Key **SRC** 0CVTZRT66TY9 Kind Journal article Rights CC-BY-4.0 Kept 27 Oct 2026 Checked Against the published article Added by [apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo) The record Bibliographic records are CC0. Take this one as CSL-JSON, BibTeX or RIS. [CSL-JSON](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CVTZRT66TY9/towards-ancient-meroitic-decipherment-a-computational/csl.json)