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MTAAC research project (Header map by Bertrand Lafont cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdlj/2009)

LA / Frankfurt / Torontocdli-gh.github.io/mtaac/Joined March 2017

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@digcuneiform

Dec 10, 2018

@digcuneiform

featured in a BBC piece !

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Cambridge Assyriology

@CAssyriology

· Dec 10, 2018

“Understanding Mesopotamia is a way of understanding what it means to be human.” - @epageperron Great article about the exciting future of Assyriology, featuring @digcuneiform @cdli_news @opcassyriology @britishmuseum bbc.com/future/story/2 via @BBC_Future

MTAAC annotation team :) Analyzing Ur III administrative texts from the

CDLI database 😊

Tame us, crazy us. Fall 2018 CDLI research and development team!

@SwatiSh01920196

and

not in the picture

Team photo for our annual

@digcuneiform

MTAAC meeting, Frankfurt, July 24 🤓📈 From left to right: Ilya Khait,

@apkallatu

@epageperron

and Christian Chiarcos

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Boosted Assyriologist

@Apkallatu

Aug 10, 2018

This afternoon I learned Markdown and put a whole lot of documentation on annotating Sumerian in it for

@digcuneiform

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Boosted Assyriologist

@Apkallatu

Jul 23, 2018

An intense day of discussions with

@epageperron

and our computational linguist colleagues in Frankfurt for

@digcuneiform

- now time for a rest, followed by beer later on!

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@digcuneiform

Jul 14, 2018

If alternate years stem from the fact that year names can be ambiguous, shouldn't the alternative years be linked to year names instead of artifacts? How do you model the fact that a month name can bear a specific month number based on place, ruler, and year of rulership?

Saturday fun: finishing the untangling of temporal data for the new

@cdli_news

database schema. Hamsters in

@sameersengar7

and

@epageperron

can be heard from afar! 🐹🐹🐹

Still a ways to go, but we finally made ePSD2 beta 1 public on Oracc today: oracc.museum.upenn.edu/epsd2

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@digcuneiform

Jul 10, 2018

New stats for cuneiform texts of the Ur III period: Unique but not lemmatized word tokens: 78 182 (Yay affixing languages!), All word tokens: 3 241 013 (ouch!); Unique (not curated) sign readings: 3189 🤓

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@digcuneiform

Jul 10, 2018

We agree !

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Humanities Commons

@humcommons

· Jul 10, 2018

DYK that you can build a personal website through @humcommons? Check out @Apkallatu's beautifully organized site for inspiration! heatherdbaker.hcommons.org

More stickers have arrived, I'm ready for the rencontre in Innsbruck... #digitalhumanities #cuneiform #rai64

#TAPDIDWorkshop 🛫🛫🛫 See you there !

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@Apkallatu

· Jun 24, 2018

Heading for Mexico City with @epageperron to speak about @digcuneiform at #DH2018

New notebook: "More on Using NER to Map Geographic Metadata in MARC Records" (AKA using clustering/distance measurements for disambiguating placenames) nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/diyclas

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MTAAC project will be represented at the #dh2018 conference! Join us at the #TAPDIDWorkshop on the Monday dh2018.adho.org/en/talleres/ (DM for details on registering.)

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Émilie Pagé-Perron

@epageperron

· Jun 23, 2018

Flying very soon to Mexico city with @Apkallatu to participate in the #dh2018 #TAPDIDWorkshop! dh2018.adho.org/en/talleres/

Going to #DH2018 in Mexico? We are hosting a special workshop called "Building International Bridges Through Digital Scholarship: The Trans-Atlantic Platform Digging Into Data Challenge Experience" on Monday, 6/25. Please join us! dh2018.adho.org/en/talleres/

grant to

supported development of a transcription tool for the Coptic language that engaged citizen scholars to help transcribe Egyptian papyrus documents. #NEHinYourState #MN ow.ly/tvgD30iLepe

There certainly is; that’s closely related to what the good folks at

@digcuneiform

are up to. I’m very interested in what they’re doing

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@digcuneiform

Jun 20, 2018

New research tools for cuneiform, that is us,

@digcuneiform

MTAAC ! ☺️

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CDLI

@cdli_news

· Jun 20, 2018

The team tirelessly working @UCLA #NELCUCLA to provide to more people new research tools geared for, and new information about #Mesopotamia n inscribed artifacts. Krishna, @Douglas1995Li, Anoosha, @englund @epageperron, @shakerDan, @shraddha_m26, @jayanthiitb #cuneiform #Sumerian

Taking suggestions on external resources that could be linked in artifact entries on

@cdli_news

. So far have been working on ORACC (multiple links if text in more than one project), CCP, BDTNS and the OI.

Did you know that the Center for Digital Humanities (cdh.ucla.edu)

@UCLA

has a pet mascot called Beta(max)?

MTAAC's

new software infrastructure is in active development!

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CDLI

@cdli_news

· Jun 13, 2018

A normal day at the lab: @Douglas1995Li finishing the connection of the new database schema (prepared by @shraddha_m26, assisted by Krishna) with the new CDLI search and @jayanthiitb working for the first time with PHP technology to provide a GUI to the transliteration checker

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@digcuneiform

May 8, 2018

Hard working engineers making the future of cuneiform shiny bright for Assyriologists, historians, linguists, museum staff, et al 😊 Team

@cdli_news

Framework and

@digcuneiform

MTAAC

@UCLA

#UCLANELC @jayanthiitb

@Douglas1995Li

@shraddha_m26

(Anoosha and Krishna not in pictures)

Thank you to all of the #FuturePhilologies speakers and to everyone who joined us at ISAW today—wonderful day of discussion & debate on language and computing...

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Patrick J. Burns

@diyclassics

· Feb 2, 2018

Announcing— “Future Philologies: Digital Directions in Ancient World Text” Conference at @isawnyu/@isawlib Fri. April 20, 2018 diyclassics.github.io/future-philolo #futurephilologies

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Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder

@ctschroeder

Apr 20, 2018

Machine translation of Cuneiform predicated on repetitive texts -- many of these tablets are repetitive. Need either a lot repetition or a lot of annotated data #FuturePhilologies

@epageperron

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Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder

@ctschroeder

Apr 20, 2018

Super ambitious project, working on manually annotating a training corpus and automatically annotating a full corpus of Sumerian texts. #FuturePhilologies

Looks like really great work for Sumerian presented by

@epageperron

cdli-gh.github.io/mtaac/ #FuturePhilologies

Thanks to all our speakers and participants in the conference #FuturePhilologies! Save the date for "Digital Approaches to Teaching the Ancient Mediterranean" #DATAM this fall, 10/26/2018.

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Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder

@ctschroeder

Apr 20, 2018

Interesting #futurephilologies convo abt public domain. Some concern about ppl reusing data, making changes, hiding those changes. Not just issue of commercial, for-profit reapplication of data but damage to data that cld fo unseen

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Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder

@ctschroeder

· Apr 20, 2018

Project really committed to open source -- releasing all their data *public domain* #FuturePhilologies

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will be discussing the application of computational linguistics technology for cuneiform languages as part of

@digcuneiform

MTAAC and

@cdli_news

CDLI

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Mirko Surdi

@MirkoSurdi

· Mar 23, 2018

"Thinking Digital in Cuneiform Studies: Methods, Problems, Perspectives" is the workshop organized at @CaFoscari dealing with #Assyriology and #digital world. See you on 27-28 March in #Venice!

And a new version of the Electronic Pennsylvania Dictionary 2 (ePSD2) will be coming soon to Oracc: watch this space!

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ISAW Library

@ISAWLib

· Mar 22, 2018

Always wanted to learn Sumerian? Here's our latest addition to your DIY ancient languages toolkit by @diyclassics isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog/g

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@digcuneiform

Mar 23, 2018

RThe preliminary programme for LREC 2018 is out ! lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/conference-

CDLI entry of the tablet: cdli.ucla.edu/P509066

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CDLI

@cdli_news

· Mar 15, 2018

In the Old Akkadian period, pig fat was employed in the treatment of various objects such as leather, cloth bags and implements. What could have been its other usages? cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DOC-00

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@digcuneiform

Mar 16, 2018

Jinyan of the University of Toronto team is currently annotating the morphology of an administrative text listing lukur priestesses receiving oil cdli.ucla.edu/P142753 🛢️🙋‍♀️