# Ravneet Punia 2020: Towards the First Machine Translation System for Sumerian Transliterations

> Ravneet Punia, Niko Schenk, Christian Chiarcos et al., 2020. 3 records on Mysteries Department cite it. COLING 2020, pp. 3454-3460, CC BY 4.0. First…

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# Towards the First Machine Translation System for Sumerian Transliterations

Ravneet Punia, Niko Schenk, Christian Chiarcos et al., 2020.

**Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian** Paper-conferencedoi: **[10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.308](https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.308)** 0

## What it's used for here

COLING 2020, pp. 3454-3460, CC BY 4.0. First machine translation of Sumerian (Ur III administrative transliterations) into English from the CDLI Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of Cuneiform Languages (MTAAC) project; releases parallel corpora and compares supervised, phrase-based and transfer-learning systems. Used for the Sumerian side of machine translation.

## Cited by on this site 3 records

[A first Sumerian machine-translation system for Ur III administrative transliterations produced translations its…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DEDXP3V2WH7/a-first-sumerian-machine-translation-system-for-ur-iii)

Evidence

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[No study has yet measured whether machine translation of Ur III texts changes the rate of archive reconstruction or…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DEDY55GJQF7/no-study-has-yet-measured-whether-machine-translation-of-ur)

Evidence

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

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## Cite it

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Ravneet Punia, Niko Schenk, Christian Chiarcos, & Émilie Pagé-Perron (2020). Towards the First Machine Translation System for Sumerian Transliterations. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.308
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