@inproceedings{L16-1642,
 abstract = {We present experiments on word segmentation for Akkadian cuneiform, an ancient writing system and a language used for about 3 millennia in the ancient Near East. To our best knowledge, this is the first study of this kind applied to either the Akkadian language or the cuneiform writing system. As a logosyllabic writing system, cuneiform structurally resembles Eastern Asian writing systems, so, we employ word segmentation algorithms originally developed for Chinese and Japanese. We describe results of rule-based algorithms, dictionary-based algorithms, statistical and machine learning approaches. Our results may indicate possible promising steps in cuneiform word segmentation that can create and improve natural language processing in this area.
},
 address = {Portorož, Slovenia},
 author = {Timo Homburg and Christian Chiarcos},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016)},
 month = {May},
 pages = {4067--4074},
 publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
 title = {Word Segmentation for Akkadian Cuneiform},
 url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/L16-1642},
 year = {2016}
}