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Restoration of Fragmentary Babylonian Texts Using Recurrent Neural Networks
The main source of information regarding ancient Mesopotamian history and
culture are clay cuneiform tablets. Despite being an invaluable resource, many
tablets are fragmented leading to missing information. Currently these missing
parts are manually completed by experts. In this work we investigate the
possibility of assisting scholars and even automatically completing the breaks
in ancient Akkadian texts from Achaemenid period Babylonia by modelling the
language using recurrent neural networks