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The same reason that doesn't work for (insert language here). Especially considering that there will be wildly varying scripts and styles of writing.
by rangibaby 10y ago
The same reason that doesn't work for (insert language here). Especially considering that there will be wildly varying scripts and styles of writing.
- tacon 10y agoOk, how about machine vision plus Mechanical Turk or reCAPTCHA, with the human helping with difficult symbols? Apparently we already have a training set of the translated tablets.
- flukus 10y agoI read about a group doing this recently actually. The specifically avoided teach people the language so that they could just translate what the saw and not read in context that wasn't there.
- mattlondon 10y agoJust transcribing the tablets into some sort of digital format would probably be a good step (and be a useful corpus for archival purposes if/when they accidentally/deliberately get lost or destroyed, e.g. syria)