Nathan Wasserman

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

2021 · Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

We present models which complete missing text given transliterations of ancient Mesopotamian documents, originally written on cuneiform clay tablets (2500 BCE -100 CE). Due to the tablets' deterioration, scholars often rely on contextual cues to …