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You'd probably like the Deep Past Challenge then: https://www.deeppast.org/ https://www.deeppast.org/ We are not associated with them, but they're a team of sc
by verditelabs 3mo ago
You'd probably like the Deep Past Challenge then: https://www.deeppast.org/ https://www.deeppast.org/
We are not associated with them, but they're a team of scholars that hosted an open challenge to do automated translation of Akkadian texts. Their first competition ended a few months ago but I believe they plan on hosting another at some point focused on doing image recognition to help speed up the transcription and translation of the tablets that you mentioned.
- parsabg 3mo agoGreat that this exists, and a shame that it'll probably never get a similar level of attention from funders, participants, or the press.