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SUMMARY:Bridging Millennia: Machine Learning's Impact on Assyriology - Ém
 ilie Pagé-Perron (University of Oxford)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231130T130000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231130T143000Z
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DESCRIPTION:The field of Assyriology has recently undergone a silent trans
 formation with the integration of machine learning techniques. In this pre
 sentation\, we will explore how machine learning is being used to study ar
 tifacts from Mesopotamia which were inscribed using the cuneiform script. 
 Cuneiform\, which was employed for thousands of years to record a handful 
 of languages in the Middle East\, presents both opportunities and challeng
 es for computer-aided processing and analysis. From various natural langua
 ge processing applications\, including machine translation\, to computer v
 ision\, researchers have found clever ways to use machine learning as a to
 ol in their work to understand both the material artifacts themselves and 
 the text they were inscribed with. The overall challenge in these applicat
 ions has been data sparsity and a lack of training data. After discussing 
 how these challenges were addressed and the current state-of-the-art\, we 
 will end with a few words about expectations in the development of technol
 ogies for the study of these artifacts in the future. \n\nBio:\nÉmilie Pa
 gé-Perron is a Junior Research Fellow of Assyriology at Wolfson College. 
 She is an Assyriologist and Digital Scholar. Her research interests encomp
 ass Mesopotamian social history\, Sumerian philology\, and Computational L
 inguistics of cuneiform languages. Émilie employs both traditional philol
 ogical approaches and computational methods in her work. Although her educ
 ation is based in the Humanities\, she has perfected her scientific skills
 \, focusing on data management and curation and natural language processin
 g. Émilie has coordinated the Machine Translation and Automated Analysis 
 of Cuneiform Languages project (2017-2020)\, a UCLA-Toronto-Frankfurt proj
 ect funded by the NEH\, SSHRC and the DFG through the T-AP Digging into Da
 ta Challenge. She also has managed the CDLI Framework Update project (2017
 -2020\, NEH). She continues to work on ways to render ancient cuneiform te
 xts more accessible to varied audiences.\nSpeakers:\nÉmilie Pagé-Perron 
 (University of Oxford)
LOCATION:Wolfson College (Buttery)\, Linton Road OX2 6UD
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