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# Workshop on Machine Learning for Ancient Languages 2024 — accepted papers

Workshop on Machine Learning for Ancient Languages 2024 is the 2024 edition of the Workshop on Machine Learning for Ancient Languages, held in Hybrid in Bangkok, Thailand and online, August 2024 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 26 papers of it; our library holds 2 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Hybrid in Bangkok, Thailand and online · 🗓 August 2024

[**26** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**2** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ml4al/2024/#works) · [**7** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ml4al/2024/#works)

## Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. **[UFCNet: Unsupervised Network based on Fourier transform and Convolutional attention for Oracle Character Recognition ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.11/)**Yanan Zhou, Guoqi Liu, Yiping Yang et al.*6 citations*
2. **[Deep Learning Meets Egyptology: a Hieroglyphic Transformer for Translating Ancient Egyptian ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.9/)**Mattia De Cao, Nicola De Cao, Angelo Colonna et al.*5 citations*
3. **[Ancient Wisdom, Modern Tools: Exploring Retrieval-Augmented LLMs for Ancient Indian Philosophy ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.23/)**Priyanka Mandikal*3 citations*
4. **[Coarse-to-Fine Generative Model for Oracle Bone Inscriptions Inpainting ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.12/)**Shibin Wang, Wenjie Guo, Yubo Xu et al.*3 citations*
5. **[CuReD: Deep Learning Optical Character Recognition for Cuneiform Text Editions and Legacy Materials ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.14/)**Shai Gordin, Morris Alper, Avital Romach et al.*3 citations*
6. **[Lacuna Language Learning: Leveraging RNNs for Ranked Text Completion in Digitized Coptic Manuscripts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.8/)**Lauren Levine, Cindy Li, Lydia Bremer-McCollum et al.*2 citations*
7. **[“Gotta catch `em all!”: Retrieving people in Ancient Greek texts combining transformer models and domain knowledge ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.16/)**Marijke Beersmans, Alek Keersmaekers, Evelien de Graaf et al.*2 citations*
8. **[A deep learning pipeline for the palaeographical dating of ancient Greek papyrus fragments ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.18/)**Graham West, Matthew I. Swindall, James H. Brusuelas et al.*1 citation*
9. **[Adapting transformer models to morphological tagging of two highly inflectional languages: a case study on Ancient Greek and Latin ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.17/)**Alek Keersmaekers, Wouter Mercelis*1 citation*
10. **[Challenging Error Correction in Recognised Byzantine Greek ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.1/)**John Pavlopoulos, Vasiliki Kougia, Esteban Garces Arias et al.*1 citation*

## All accepted papers (26)

The most cited first; 2 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[UFCNet: Unsupervised Network based on Fourier transform and Convolutional attention for Oracle Character Recognition ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.11/)**Yanan Zhou, Guoqi Liu, Yiping Yang et al.*6 citations*
2. **[Deep Learning Meets Egyptology: a Hieroglyphic Transformer for Translating Ancient Egyptian ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.9/)**Mattia De Cao, Nicola De Cao, Angelo Colonna et al.*5 citations*
3. **[Ancient Wisdom, Modern Tools: Exploring Retrieval-Augmented LLMs for Ancient Indian Philosophy ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.23/)**Priyanka Mandikal*3 citations*
4. **[Coarse-to-Fine Generative Model for Oracle Bone Inscriptions Inpainting ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.12/)**Shibin Wang, Wenjie Guo, Yubo Xu et al.*3 citations*
5. **[CuReD: Deep Learning Optical Character Recognition for Cuneiform Text Editions and Legacy Materials ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.14/)**Shai Gordin, Morris Alper, Avital Romach et al.*3 citations*
6. **[Lacuna Language Learning: Leveraging RNNs for Ranked Text Completion in Digitized Coptic Manuscripts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.8/)**Lauren Levine, Cindy Li, Lydia Bremer-McCollum et al.*2 citations*
7. **[“Gotta catch `em all!”: Retrieving people in Ancient Greek texts combining transformer models and domain knowledge ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.16/)**Marijke Beersmans, Alek Keersmaekers, Evelien de Graaf et al.*2 citations*
8. **[A deep learning pipeline for the palaeographical dating of ancient Greek papyrus fragments ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.18/)**Graham West, Matthew I. Swindall, James H. Brusuelas et al.*1 citation*
9. **[Adapting transformer models to morphological tagging of two highly inflectional languages: a case study on Ancient Greek and Latin ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.17/)**Alek Keersmaekers, Wouter Mercelis*1 citation*
10. **[Challenging Error Correction in Recognised Byzantine Greek ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.1/)**John Pavlopoulos, Vasiliki Kougia, Esteban Garces Arias et al.*1 citation*
11. **[Exploring intertextuality across the Homeric poems through language models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.25/)**Maria Konstantinidou, John Pavlopoulos, Elton Barker*1 citation*
12. **[Leveraging Part-of-Speech Tagging for Enhanced Stylometry of Latin Literature ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.24/)**Sarah Li Chen, Patrick J. Burns, Thomas J. Bolt et al.*1 citation*
13. **[Long Unit Word Tokenization and Bunsetsu Segmentation of Historical Japanese ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.6/)**Hiroaki Ozaki, Kanako Komiya, Masayuki Asahara et al.*1 citation*
14. **[MsBERT: A New Model for the Reconstruction of Lacunae in Hebrew Manuscripts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shmidman-2024-msbert-new-model-reconstruction-lacunae/)**Avi Shmidman, Ometz Shmidman, Hillel Gershuni et al.*1 citation · our summary*
15. **[SumTablets: A Transliteration Dataset of Sumerian Tablets ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.20/)**Cole Simmons, Richard Diehl Martinez, Dan Jurafsky*1 citation*
16. **[A new machine-actionable corpus for ancient text restoration ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.7/)**Will Fitzgerald, Justin Barney
17. **[Classification of Paleographic Artifacts at Scale: Mitigating Confounds and Distribution Shift in Cuneiform Tablet Dating ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.4/)**Danlu Chen, Jiahe Tian, Yufei Weng et al.
18. **[Classifier identification in Ancient Egyptian as a low-resource sequence-labelling task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.5/)**Dmitry Nikolaev, Jorke Grotenhuis, Haleli Harel et al.
19. **[Detecting Narrative Patterns in Biblical Hebrew and Greek](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mcgovern-2024-detecting-narrative-patterns-biblical-hebrew/)**Hope McGovern, Hale Sirin, Tom Lippincott et al.*our summary*
20. **[Latin Treebanks in Review: An Evaluation of Morphological Tagging Across Time ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.21/)**Marisa Hudspeth, Brendan O'Connor, Laure Thompson
21. **[Neural Lemmatization and POS-tagging models for Coptic, Demotic and Earlier Egyptian ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.10/)**Aleksi Sahala, Eliese-Sophia Lincke
22. **[Predicate Sense Disambiguation for UMR Annotation of Latin: Challenges and Insights ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.3/)**Federica Gamba
23. **[Restoring Mycenaean Linear B `A&B' series tablets using supervised and transfer learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.13/)**Katerina Papavassileiou, Dimitrios Kosmopoulos
24. **[The Metronome Approach to Sanskrit Meter: Analysis for the Rigveda ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.22/)**Yuzuki Tsukagoshi, Ikki Ohmukai
25. **[Towards Context-aware Normalization of Variant Characters in Classical Chinese Using Parallel Editions and BERT ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.15/)**Florian Kessler

[See all 26 papers in Workshop on Machine Learning for Ancient Languages 2024 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ml4al/2024/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (2)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. [**MsBERT: A New Model for the Reconstruction of Lacunae in Hebrew Manuscripts**Avi Shmidman, Ometz Shmidman, Hillel Gershuni, et al.*2024 · 4 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shmidman-2024-msbert-new-model-reconstruction-lacunae/)
2. [**Detecting Narrative Patterns in Biblical Hebrew and Greek**Hope McGovern, Hale Sirin, Tom Lippincott, et al.*2024 · 3 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mcgovern-2024-detecting-narrative-patterns-biblical-hebrew/)

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Hebrew & Aramaic (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/) · [Semitic languages (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Biblical Hebrew (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/biblical-hebrew/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/)

## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**Avi Shmidman**1 work here · 4 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/avi-shmidman/) · [🧑‍🔬**Hillel Gershuni**1 work here · 4 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hillel-gershuni/) · [🧑‍🔬**Moshe Koppel**1 work here · 4 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/moshe-koppel/) · [🧑‍🔬**Andrew Caines**1 work here · 3 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-caines/) · [🧑‍🔬**Hale Sirin**1 work here · 3 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hale-sirin/) · [🧑‍🔬**Tom Lippincott**1 work here · 3 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-lippincott/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/)

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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