Piecing together the epic of Gilgamesh with NLP (opens in new tab)

[stub for offtopicness. please don't.]

If you want to skip the journalistic fluffery and go to the technicals here's the paper:

Reading Akkadian cuneiform using natural language processing (NLP): https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Id love to see ML take on Codex Seraphinianus. Even if the answers are just hallucinations, they'd fit thematically.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus

What kind of „AI“ / machine learning was used?

New Fragmentarium Website: https://fragmentarium.ms/

Old: https://www.ebl.lmu.de/fragmentarium

Related papers:

- https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.1197.pdf

- https://openreview.net/pdf?id=z6ZGKexu8un

NLP-enabled string matching. I wish there were more details about _how_ they did it in the NYT article since that would be much more interesting than just saying "AI".

The comments here are really atrocious and ironically all seem LLM-generated.

This seems to be like kakasi for Japanese in that Japanese writing system does not separate words by spaces and one kanji can be read in multiple ways. As I understand the same is also true for cuneiform and this is an attempt to solve it.