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Restoration of fragmentary Babylonian texts using recurrent neural networks

Ethan Fetaya, Yonatan Lifshitz, Elad Aaron et al., 2020.

MYS0DEDMM05PWD2 · mystery · click to copyMUnread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of SumerianArticledoi: 10.1073/pnas.20037941170

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PNAS 117(37). Recurrent neural network language models of Achaemenid-period Babylonian (Akkadian) archival texts, used to propose fillings for broken passages; first machine-learning restoration work on cuneiform. Used for the fragment-restoration line of work.

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Ethan Fetaya, Yonatan Lifshitz, Elad Aaron, & Shai Gordin (2020). Restoration of fragmentary Babylonian texts using recurrent neural networks. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2003794117
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