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Object, Text and Image in the Digital Age
Els Angenon participated in the Object, Text, and Image in the Digital Age conference given in the Calouste Gulbenkian museum in Lisbon Portugal on October 16th 2024: The general scope was the role of the digitization of collections and the transformation of the original object. Questions such as, what is gained and lost in making the transformation from physical to digital? Are we prioritising the digitisation of objects that are more easily rendered as image and text? Were asked to a panel of international experts to explore the particular challenges of digitizing objects.
69th Rencontre Assyrio-logique Internationale
The 69th Rencontre is interested in how different people in the ancient Near East navigated the challenges of life in groups. What kinds of societies did they build together, and why? How did the different natural and human environments in which people lived inform the societies they made? How did different forms of social organization interact and relate to each other? And many more. To advance scholarship on the politics, peoples, and polities of the ancient Near East, scholars across disciplinary boundaries were invited to engage with these and related questions. Gustav Ryberg Smidt presented the following paper: Seeing Marad tablets in a new light – combining digital and analogue approaches to publishing tablets. Katrien de Graef presented the following paper: Exploring the Power of Motherhood in Elamite Political Dynamics and took part in a round table discussion on the future of Assyriology.
LREC-COLING 2024
Gustav Ryberg Schmidt, Katrien De Graef and Els Lefever participated in the LREC-COLING conference, a hybrid conference organized by Two major international key players in the area of computational linguistics, the ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) and the International Committee on Compu- tational Linguistics (ICCL). Gustav presented the paper: “At the Crossroad of Cuneiform and NLP: Challenges for Fine-grained Part-of-speech Tagging.”
The DANES con -ference 2023
Hendrik Hameeuw and Gustav Rydberg Smidt participated in the First Meeting Of The Digital Ancient Near Eastern Studies Network, held 19 – 21 February 2023 in Israël with as theme, “Computational Perspectives on Ancient Near Eastern Literature, Art and Material Culture”. prof. Hendrik Hameeuw presented the following: “Preparing Multi-layered visualizations of old Babylonian cuneiform tablets for an AI OCR training towards automated sign recognition”. See learn more to watch the presentation and the abstracts.
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