https://jdavidstark.com/tags/computational-linguistics/ Recent content in Computational-Linguistics on J. David Stark https://jdavidstark.com/images/papermod-cover.png https://jdavidstark.com/images/papermod-cover.png Hugo -- 0.154.5 en J. David Stark Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:38:31 +0000 https://jdavidstark.com/computing-ugaritic/ Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:38:31 +0000 http://ntinterpretation.wordpress.com/?p=5798 <p>Sunday, <a href = "https://web.archive.org/web/20190729102515/https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/07/100719-science-technology-computers-lost-languages-translate-bible-hebrew/" target = "_blank" rel = "nofollow noopener noreferrer" >National Geographic</a> reported that researchers at the <a href = "http://www.mit.edu/" target = "_blank" rel = "nofollow noopener noreferrer" >Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> had successfully tested a computer system that, by itself, deciphered a substantial amount of Ugaritic &ldquo;in a matter of hours&rdquo; ( <a href = "http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/ugaritic-barzilay-0630.html" target = "_blank" rel = "nofollow noopener noreferrer" >MIT press release</a>). This system is based on a <a href = "http://people.csail.mit.edu/bsnyder/papers/bsnyder_acl2010.pdf" target = "_blank" rel = "nofollow noopener noreferrer" >statistical model</a> developed by Benjamin Snyder and Regina Barzilay of <a href = "http://www.mit.edu/" target = "_blank" rel = "nofollow noopener noreferrer" >MIT</a> and Kevin Knight of the <a href = "http://www.usc.edu/" target = "_blank" rel = "nofollow noopener noreferrer" >University of Southern California</a>. According to <a href = "http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/ugaritic-barzilay-0630.html" target = "_blank" rel = "nofollow noopener noreferrer" >MIT</a>,</p>