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Akkademia: translating Akkadian signs to transcriptions using HMM, MEMM and BiLSTM (code and data repository)

Gai Gutherz, 2023.

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GitHub repository behind gutherz2023akkadian. Python package (pip install akkadian) that transliterates Unicode cuneiform with HMM (89.5 per cent), MEMM (94 per cent) and BiLSTM (96.7 per cent) sign-reading accuracy on the RINAP training corpus; ships RINAP, RIAo, RIBo, SAAo and Suhu in JSON and TEI. README states CC BY-SA 3.0 while the sidebar shows MIT; licence to be confirmed from the licence file. Used as the open code and data behind the Akkadian machine-translation work.

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Gai Gutherz (2023). Akkademia: translating Akkadian signs to transcriptions using HMM, MEMM and BiLSTM (code and data repository). https://github.com/gaigutherz/Akkademia
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