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title = "Classifier identification in {A}ncient {E}gyptian as a low-resource sequence-labelling task",
author = "Nikolaev, Dmitry and
Grotenhuis, Jorke and
Harel, Haleli and
Goldwasser, Orly",
editor = "Pavlopoulos, John and
Sommerschield, Thea and
Assael, Yannis and
Gordin, Shai and
Cho, Kyunghyun and
Passarotti, Marco and
Sprugnoli, Rachele and
Liu, Yudong and
Li, Bin and
Anderson, Adam",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Machine Learning for Ancient Languages (ML4AL 2024)",
month = aug,
year = "2024",
address = "Hybrid in Bangkok, Thailand and online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.5",
pages = "42--47",
abstract = "The complex Ancient Egyptian (AE) writing system was characterised by widespread use of graphemic classifiers (determinatives): silent (unpronounced) hieroglyphic signs clarifying the meaning or indicating the pronunciation of the host word. The study of classifiers has intensified in recent years with the launch and quick growth of the iClassifier project, a web-based platform for annotation and analysis of classifiers in ancient and modern languages. Thanks to the data contributed by the project participants, it is now possible to formulate the identification of classifiers in AE texts as an NLP task. In this paper, we make first steps towards solving this task by implementing a series of sequence-labelling neural models, which achieve promising performance despite the modest amount of training data. We discuss tokenisation and operationalisation issues arising from tackling AE texts and contrast our approach with frequency-based baselines.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Classifier identification in Ancient Egyptian as a low-resource sequence-labelling task
%A Nikolaev, Dmitry
%A Grotenhuis, Jorke
%A Harel, Haleli
%A Goldwasser, Orly
%Y Pavlopoulos, John
%Y Sommerschield, Thea
%Y Assael, Yannis
%Y Gordin, Shai
%Y Cho, Kyunghyun
%Y Passarotti, Marco
%Y Sprugnoli, Rachele
%Y Liu, Yudong
%Y Li, Bin
%Y Anderson, Adam
%S Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Machine Learning for Ancient Languages (ML4AL 2024)
%D 2024
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Hybrid in Bangkok, Thailand and online
%F nikolaev-etal-2024-classifier
%X The complex Ancient Egyptian (AE) writing system was characterised by widespread use of graphemic classifiers (determinatives): silent (unpronounced) hieroglyphic signs clarifying the meaning or indicating the pronunciation of the host word. The study of classifiers has intensified in recent years with the launch and quick growth of the iClassifier project, a web-based platform for annotation and analysis of classifiers in ancient and modern languages. Thanks to the data contributed by the project participants, it is now possible to formulate the identification of classifiers in AE texts as an NLP task. In this paper, we make first steps towards solving this task by implementing a series of sequence-labelling neural models, which achieve promising performance despite the modest amount of training data. We discuss tokenisation and operationalisation issues arising from tackling AE texts and contrast our approach with frequency-based baselines.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.5
%P 42-47
Markdown (Informal)
[Classifier identification in Ancient Egyptian as a low-resource sequence-labelling task](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.5) (Nikolaev et al., ML4AL-WS 2024)
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