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Filling the Gaps in Ancient Akkadian Texts: A Masked Language Modelling Approach

Koren Lazar, Benny Saret, Asaf Yehudai et al., 2021.

MYS0DEDMM05PWD2 · mystery · click to copyMUnread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of SumerianPaper-conferencedoi: 10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.3840

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EMNLP 2021 (arXiv 2109.04513). Masked language models (multilingual BERT fine-tuned on Akkadian transliterations) proposing words for gaps in broken Akkadian texts, evaluated with held-out masking and with Assyriologists. Used for the gap-filling line of work after fetaya2020restoration.

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Koren Lazar, Benny Saret, Asaf Yehudai, Wayne Horowitz, Nathan Wasserman, & Gabriel Stanovsky (2021). Filling the Gaps in Ancient Akkadian Texts: A Masked Language Modelling Approach. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.384
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