https://hcommons.org/groups/nlp-for-ancient-languages/ Activity feed for the group, NLP for Ancient languages. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:58:33 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 164999106bc402e91ad3c5b15f034046 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1860455/ Tue, 03 Oct 2023 03:02:03 -0400 Research into emotions is a developing field within Assyriology, and NLP tools for Akkadian texts offers new perspectives on the data. We use PMI-based word embeddings to explore the relationship between parts of the body and emotions. Using data downloaded from Oracc, we ask which parts of the body were semantically linked to emotions. We do this…[Read more]

]]> 0 1bb5b017450f46c14c91bc58207716cb https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859397/ Sat, 23 Sep 2023 10:46:03 -0400 CALL FOR PAPERS: The sixth Gender and Methodology in the Ancient Near East (GeMANE 6) will take place as a hybrid event in Malta 8–11 April, 2024. Check the website (https://www.um.edu.mt/events/gemane6workshop2024/callforpapers/) for more information and the full call for papers text. Deadline for abstracts (300-500 words) is 15th October.

]]> 0 3b619141ce6758fec6a5cfa361891e96 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1838258/ Thu, 23 Mar 2023 02:24:47 -0400 While the discipline of computational linguistics mostly deals with the modeling and the investigation of individual languages (often “big” languages such as English, German, Arabic, or Chinese), Multilingual Computational Linguistics focuses on the comparison of languages, trying to develop new methods and techniques by which languages can be com…[Read more]

]]> 0 ef84a370b0517181fb4f65e7078b4d8e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1831823/ Mon, 30 Jan 2023 02:25:05 -0500 The formalization of sound changes as finite state transducers is implicit already in the Neogrammarians. For at least six decades scholars have recognized the potential of transducers for improving the speed and rigor of research in historical linguists, but almost no historical linguists actually use them. This article identifies the obstacles…[Read more]

]]> 0 26d2fe10b8a8a3b6e7dda0fb3de9e3a0 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1783962/ Tue, 14 Jun 2022 02:24:09 -0400 For a long time, metaphors have played an important role in depicting language history. In this study, we contrast early metaphors on language history, such as the family tree or the wave model, with recent metaphors that were popularized after the quantitative turn, such as forests of trees or phylogenetic networks. Speculating about metaphors…[Read more]

]]> 0 947205dbb19b408025c55dc017e5810a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1763889/ Mon, 27 Dec 2021 02:24:32 -0500 Historical 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]

]]> 0 da1320f3dabecfba52ac27379e8198e5 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1761864/ Sat, 18 Dec 2021 02:24:53 -0500 In 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]

]]> 0 939ccd077ee07aab9d709053a06e430c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1679409/ Wed, 26 Feb 2020 16:31:28 -0500 By 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]

]]> 0 169ca5badf1a40d7be5ae27eb081fd6f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577460/ Fri, 04 Aug 2017 01:00:30 -0400 This 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]

]]> 0 92526dbfa71b133cea897665506a91ee https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1567356/ Sun, 30 Apr 2017 01:20:08 -0400 Project 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]

]]> 0 fdcb1d3f6236d2c94934a2ce420bb131 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1555139/ Fri, 09 Dec 2016 01:05:05 -0500 Talk Abstract

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