Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Yes, I imagine it would be. I suspect a lot of insights can be made from extensive digitization of the materials. Statistical studies of records over time. Finding what fragments may fit with others.

See https://github.com/gaigutherz/Akkademia which is a deep-learning based approach to OCR and word segmentation in Akkadian. Early days. I wish I knew enough ML (or Akkadian) to contribute.



Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: