The Survival of the Etruscan Language

Freeman, Philip

doi:10.1515/etst.1999.6.1.75

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“…People who spoke Etruscan and Messapic languages might have had possible connections to the Minoan civilization. The earliest known inscriptions in the Etruscan language are dated to about 700 BCE (Freeman 1999). According to (Robinson 2009), Herodotus wrote that the Etruscans migrated to Italy through the Aegean islands from Lydia in Anatolia, but most scholars disagree with that point of view due to the lack of archaeological evidence.…”

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A Systematic Review of Computational Approaches to Deciphering Bronze Age Aegean and Cypriot Scripts

Braović,

Krstinić,

Štula

et al. 2024

Computational Linguistics

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This paper provides a detailed insight into computational approaches for deciphering Bronze Age Aegean and Cypriot scripts, namely the Archanes script and the Archanes formula, Phaistos Disk, Cretan hieroglyphic (including the Malia Altar Stone and Arkalochori Axe), Linear A, Linear B, Cypro-Minoan and Cypriot scripts. The unique contributions of this paper are threefold: 1) a thorough review of major Bronze Age Aegean and Cypriot scripts and inscriptions, digital data and corpora associated with them, existing computational decipherment methods developed in order to decipher them, and possible links to other scripts and languages; 2) the definition of 15 major challenges that can be encountered in computational decipherments of ancient scripts; and 3) an outline of a computational model that could possibly be used to simulate traditional decipherment processes of ancient scripts based on palaeography and epigraphy. In the context of this paper the term decipherment denotes the process of discovery of the language and/or the set of symbols behind an unknown script, and the meaning behind it.

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A Systematic Review of Computational Approaches to Deciphering Bronze Age Aegean and Cypriot Scripts

Braović,

Krstinić,

Štula

et al. 2024

Computational Linguistics

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“…An interesting parallel can be found between this problem and an issue of "unsupervised" translation in the real world -the case of the words for four and six in Etruscan, a language that went extinct about 2,000 years ago (Freeman, 1999). There does not currently exist any surviving parallel text with Etruscan, excepting a single 37-word tablet, but there do exist some 13,000 monolingual inscriptions.…”

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Building Machine Translation Systems for the Next Thousand Languages

Bapna¹,

Caswell²,

Kreutzer³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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In this paper we share findings from our effort to build practical machine translation (MT) systems capable of translating across over one thousand languages. We describe results in three research domains: (i) Building clean, web-mined datasets for 1500+ languages by leveraging semi-supervised pre-training for language identification and developing data-driven filtering techniques; (ii) Developing practical MT models for under-served languages by leveraging massively multilingual models trained with supervised parallel data for over 100 high-resource languages and monolingual datasets for an additional 1000+ languages; and (iii) Studying the limitations of evaluation metrics for these languages and conducting qualitative analysis of the outputs from our MT models, highlighting several frequent error modes of these types of models. Using this approach, we add 24 new languages to Google Translate, the product's largest increase in language coverage to-date. We hope that our work provides useful insights to practitioners working towards building MT systems for currently understudied languages, and highlights research directions that can complement the weaknesses of massively multilingual models in data-sparse settings.

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On the Search for Damnatio Memoriae on Ancient Roman Numismatic Artefacts. Research Assumptions / O poszukiwaniach damnatio memoriae na starożytnych rzymskich numizmatach. Postulaty badawcze

Anzorge-Potrzebowska

2022

Notae Numismaticae - Numismatic Notes

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The Survival of the Etruscan Language

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A Systematic Review of Computational Approaches to Deciphering Bronze Age Aegean and Cypriot Scripts

A Systematic Review of Computational Approaches to Deciphering Bronze Age Aegean and Cypriot Scripts

Building Machine Translation Systems for the Next Thousand Languages

On the Search for Damnatio Memoriae on Ancient Roman Numismatic Artefacts. Research Assumptions / O poszukiwaniach damnatio memoriae na starożytnych rzymskich numizmatach. Postulaty badawcze

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