Gustav Ryberg Smidt

At the Crossroad of Cuneiform and NLP: Challenges for Fine-grained Part-of-speech Tagging

The study of ancient Middle Eastern cultures is dominated by the vast number of cuneiform texts. Multiple languages and language families were expressed in cuneiform. The most dominant language written in cuneiform is the Semitic Akkadian, which is the focus of this paper. We are specifically focusi…