Ithaca: Restoring and attributing Greek inscriptions using Artificial Intelligence
We are pleased to announce the publication of the paper titled “Restoring and attributing ancient texts using deep neural networks” on the cover of this week’s issue of the scientific journal Nature. This work is the result of a collaboration between the Universities of Venice Ca’ Foscari, Oxford and Athens AUEB, and Google’s DeepMind. The article presents Ithaca, the first deep neural network that can aid historians in not only restoring the missing text of ancient Greek inscriptions, but also identifying their original...
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Feature image: Michael, magistros und stratelates, Avers (Sammlung Sopracasa no. 59) Foto: https://bit.ly/3rJz7o6 ***ENGLISH BELOW*** Chers/Chères Collègues, dans le cadre du projet “DigiByzSeal – Dévoiler la richesse cachée des sceaux : nouvelles méthodologies pour la recherche historique dans le domaine des études byzantines” (plus d’informations ici), financé conjointement par l’ANR et la DFG, nous recherchons: 2 chercheurs/chercheuses post-doctorants/doctorantes en Études byzantines et Humanités...
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