# Gai Gutherz 2023: Translating Akkadian to English with neural machine translation

> Gai Gutherz, Shai Gordin, Luis Sáenz et al., 2023. 7 records on Mysteries Department cite it. PNAS Nexus 2(5), pgad096. Neural machine translation of…

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# Translating Akkadian to English with neural machine translation

Gai Gutherz, Shai Gordin, Luis Sáenz et al., 2023.

**Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian** Articledoi: **[10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad096](https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad096)** 0

## What it's used for here

PNAS Nexus 2(5), pgad096. Neural machine translation of Akkadian from transliteration (T2E) and from Unicode cuneiform (C2E) into English, trained on 56,160 sentences from five ORACC corpora (RINAP, RIAo, RIBo, SAAo, Suhu; 8,056 tablets, mostly Neo-Assyrian). BLEU4 37.47 (T2E) and 36.52 (C2E) against a translation-memory baseline of 23.51 and 27.09; best on sentences under about 118 characters; hallucinations noted. Used for the state of machine translation of Akkadian and its limits.

## Cited by on this site 7 records

[Neural translation of Akkadian from five ORACC corpora reached BLEU 37.47 (transliteration) and 36.52 (cuneiform) on…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DEDXNRE4WCG/neural-translation-of-akkadian-from-five-oracc-corpora)

Evidence

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[No blind held-out test of a photograph-to-translation pipeline on unpublished tablets has been published, so the…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DEDY64BCDSS/no-blind-held-out-test-of-a-photograph-to-translation)

Evidence

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[The same study reports hallucinated output, weaker results on long and logogram-heavy lines, and test sentences drawn…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DEDXNXMGRAR/the-same-study-reports-hallucinated-output-weaker-results-on)

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[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)

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[Shai Gordin](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/people/FIG0DEDNF24S7H7/shai-gordin)

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

The mystery article

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[Can machines read the cuneiform tablets that no scholar has read?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/questions/QST0DEDT2BJHV5Z/can-machines-read-the-cuneiform-tablets-that-no-scholar-has)

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## Cite it

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Gai Gutherz, Shai Gordin, Luis Sáenz, Omer Levy, & Jonathan Berant (2023). Translating Akkadian to English with neural machine translation. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad096
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[Find it at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad096)

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