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SUBMITTER: Gordin S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7592802 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20201028 10
In this paper we present a new method for automatic transliteration and segmentation of Unicode cuneiform glyphs using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. Cuneiform is one of the earliest known writing system in the world, which documents millennia of human civilizations in the ancient Near East. Hundreds of thousands of cuneiform texts were found in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries CE, most of which are written in Akkadian. However, there are still tens of thousands of texts to ...[more]