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Restoring ancient text using deep learning: a case study on Greek epigraphy

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Ancient History relies on disciplines such as Epigraphy, the study of ancient inscribed texts, for evidence of the recorded past. However, these texts, “inscriptions”, are often damaged over the centuries, and illegible parts of the text must be restored by specialists, known as epigraphists. This work presents Pythia, the first ancient text restoration model that recovers missing characters from a damaged text input using deep neural networks. Its architecture is carefully designed to handle...

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10.18653/v1/D19-1668

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Division:
Humanities Division
Department:
Classics
Sub department:
Ancient History and Classical Archaeology
Oxford college:
Wolfson College
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Classics Faculty
Sub department:
Ancient History & Classical Arch
Oxford college:
Merton College
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0000-0003-3819-8537
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pubs:1063713
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uuid:6b344f53-8bcf-40bb-91ca-2e1a08f89a88
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1063713
Deposit date:
2019-11-21

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