Natural Language Processing of Ancient Languages
Johann-Mattis List deposited Historical language comparison with LingPy and EDICTOR in the group
NLP for Ancient languages on Humanities Commons 4 weeks agoHistorical language comparison for the purpose of identifying cognates and sound correspondences in multilingual wordlists which can later be used to infer phylogenetic trees can be conveniently carried out in a framework of computer-assisted language comparison (see http://calc.digling.org), using tools for automatic inference, like LingPy…[Read more]
Johann-Mattis List deposited Correcting a Bias in TIGER Rates Resulting from High Amounts of Invariant and Singleton Cognate Sets in the group
NLP for Ancient languages on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week agoIn a recent issue of the Journal of Language Evolution, Syrjänen et al. (2021) investigate the suitability of computing Cummins and McInerney’s (2011) TIGER rates for estimating the tree-likeness of linguistic datasets compiled for phylogenetic reconstruction. The authors test the TIGER rates on a diverse sample of simulated data, which by and lar…[Read more]
Johann-Mattis List deposited Improving data handling and analysis in the study of rhyme patterns in the group
NLP for Ancient languages on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months agoBy reviewing a recent quantitative study of rhyme patterns in Mandarin Chinese, this study shows how data handling and data analysis in the study of rhyme patterns can be improved. Suggestions for improvement include (a) a consistent annotation of rhyme data, which is exhaustive and facilitates data reuse, and (b) emphasizes the importance of…[Read more]
Émilie Pagé-Perron deposited Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of the Sumerian Language in the group
NLP for Ancient languages on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThis paper presents a newly funded international project for machine translation and automated analysis of ancient cuneiform 1 languages where NLP special ists and Assyriologists collaborate to create an information retrieval system for
Sumerian. This research is conceived in response to the need to translate large numbers of administrative texts…[Read more]-
Émilie Pagé-Perron deposited Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of Cuneiform Languages (MTAAC) in the group
NLP for Ancient languages on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoProject Abstract: Ancient Mesopotamia, birthplace of writing, has produced vast numbers of cuneiform tablets that only a handful of highly specialized scholars are able to read. The task of studying them is so labor intensive that the vast majority have not yet been translated, with the result that their contents are not accessible either to…[Read more]
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