# Born 2023: Disambiguating Numeral Sequences to Decipher Ancient Accounting Corpora

> Logan Born, M. Willis Monroe, Kathryn Kelley et al., 2023. 2 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Source for the numeral-ambiguity problem and its…

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# Disambiguating Numeral Sequences to Decipher Ancient Accounting Corpora

Logan Born, M. Willis Monroe, Kathryn Kelley et al., 2023. _Proceedings of the Workshop on Computation and Written Language (CAWL 2023), ACL_.

Enumerates every possible reading of each Proto-Elamite numeral notation (up to four systems per sign) and disambiguates them with document-structure rules and bootstrapped classifiers, with a test set; reports new correlations between tablet content and number size. Pages 71 to 81; arXiv 2502.00090.

**Proto-Elamite and Linear Elamite** Articledoi: **[10.18653/v1/2023.cawl-1.9](https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.cawl-1.9)** Checked against the original0

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Source for the numeral-ambiguity problem and its computational treatment.

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## Cited by on this site 2 records

[Numeral magnitude correlates with tablet content, which fits an accounting system organised by commodity.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-elamite/evidence/EVD0D1P97383PSR/numeral-magnitude-correlates-with-tablet-content-which-fits)

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Born, L., Monroe, M. W., Kelley, K., & Sarkar, A. (2023). Disambiguating Numeral Sequences to Decipher Ancient Accounting Corpora. Proceedings of the Workshop on Computation and Written Language (CAWL 2023), ACL. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.cawl-1.9
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