Thea Sommerschield, PYTHIA: Machine learning for epigraphic text restoration

Thea Sommerschield (Oxford), PYTHIA: a deep neural network model for the automatic restoration of ancient Greek inscriptions Fri, Jun 5, 2020. Digital Classicist London Seminar 2020. Ancient History relies on Epigraphy, the study of ancient inscribed texts (called “inscriptions“), for evidence of the recorded past. However, inscriptions are often damaged over the centuries, and illegible parts of the text must be restored by epigraphists. PYTHIA is the first ancient text restoration model that recove