# Koren Lazar 2021: Filling the Gaps in Ancient Akkadian Texts: A Masked Language Modelling Approach

> Koren Lazar, Benny Saret, Asaf Yehudai et al., 2021. 2 records on Mysteries Department cite it. EMNLP 2021 (arXiv 2109.04513). Masked language models…

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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.

**Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian** Paper-conferencedoi: **[10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.384](https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.384)** 0

## What it's used for here

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.

## Cited by on this site 2 records

[Both restoration studies (recurrent networks 2020, masked language models 2021) present their output as suggestions…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DEDY3FKDT9Y/both-restoration-studies-recurrent-networks-2020-masked)

Evidence

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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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## Cite it

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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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[Find it at aclanthology.org](https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.384)

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