@inproceedings{page-perron-etal-2017-machine,
    title = "Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of the {S}umerian Language",
    author = "Pag{\'e}-Perron, {\'E}milie  and
      Sukhareva, Maria  and
      Khait, Ilya  and
      Chiarcos, Christian",
    editor = "Alex, Beatrice  and
      Degaetano-Ortlieb, Stefania  and
      Feldman, Anna  and
      Kazantseva, Anna  and
      Reiter, Nils  and
      Szpakowicz, Stan",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Joint {SIGHUM} Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature",
    month = aug,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Vancouver, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/W17-2202",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-2202",
    pages = "10--16",
    abstract = "This paper presents a newly funded international project for machine translation and automated analysis of ancient cuneiform languages where NLP specialists and Assyriologists collaborate to create an information retrieval system for Sumerian. This research is conceived in response to the need to translate large numbers of administrative texts that are only available in transcription, in order to make them accessible to a wider audience. The methodology includes creation of a specialized NLP pipeline and also the use of linguistic linked open data to increase access to the results.",
}