Shai Gordin

4 paper cards in Mova's library · 2020–2026

Shai Gordin wrote 4 of the papers Mova reads, in 2020–2026, most of them on Akkadian and cuneiform NLP, Word sense disambiguation; often with Aleksi Sahala, Amos Azaria, Elad Aaron.

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Papers

A Layered Annotation Workflow for Semitic Epigraphy (2026)
The authors describe a web annotation platform for Phoenician inscriptions, built on a curated subset of KAI, with a React front end and a Firestore back end.
EvaCun 2025 Shared Task: Lemmatization and Token Prediction in Akkadian and Sumerian using LLMs (2025)
The shared task asks for two things on cuneiform text: lemmatization (the base form of each word) and token prediction (filling a masked word from its context).
Word Sense Induction with Attentive Context Clustering (2021)
ACCWSI induces the senses of an ambiguous lemma without a large pretrained model. A small word2vec model is trained on the corpus; for each sentence with the query lemma, cosine similarity between the lemma vector and each context word gives softmax weights, and the weighted sum is a context-aware vector. These…
Restoration of Fragmentary Babylonian Texts Using Recurrent Neural Networks (2020)
Clay tablets from Achaemenid Babylonia are often broken, and experts fill the gaps by hand. The authors collect about 2,250 late Babylonian archival texts (legal, economic and administrative) from an online corpus, tokenise them with a custom Akkadian tokenizer (names, gods, places and months become class tokens…