Christian Chiarcos
Christian Chiarcos wrote 4 of the papers Mova reads, in 2014–2026, most of them on Akkadian and cuneiform NLP; often with Maria Sukhareva, Gaye Detmold, Jan Chobotsky.
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Topics: Akkadian and cuneiform NLP 1
Papers
- Towards a Universal Dependency Corpus for Old Saxon (Old Low German) (2026)
Old Saxon sits in the West Germanic dialect continuum between Old English and Old High German. Its main text, the 9th-century Heliand, has been annotated three times, each time in a different tradition: Penn-style constituency (HeliPaD, 46,000 tokens, built on the Old English Penn scheme), tier-based morphosyntax… - Word Segmentation for Akkadian Cuneiform (2016)
The authors segment Akkadian cuneiform lines into words, treating the logosyllabic script as close to Chinese and Japanese. - Diachronic proximity vs. data sparsity in cross-lingual parser projection. A case study on Germanic (2014)
The question is whether a dependency parser for a historical Germanic variety with little training data can be helped by data from related varieties. - New Technologies for Old Germanic. Resources and Research on Parallel Bibles in Older Continental Western Germanic (2014)
A project overview from Frankfurt on resources for Old High German and Old Saxon and how they relate to Old English, Gothic and the modern Germanic languages.
Co-authors (7)
- Maria Sukhareva ×2
- Gaye Detmold
- Jan Chobotsky
- Janine Siewert
- Roland Mittmann
- Timo Homburg
- Timothy Price
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