About

The Digital Pasts Lab (DigPasts-Lab) is geared towards performing innovative, quality research in digital humanities, with an emphasis on historical research. We aim to create an interdisciplinary workspace among different humanities researchers and between humanities researchers and data scientists, which develops and enriches both worlds.

Digital Pasts Lab's Projects

akkademia

Translating Akkadian signs to transcriptions using NLP techniques such as HMM, MEMM and BiLSTM neural networks.

akkadian-language-models

Akkadian language models initially trained on Neo-Assyrian letters using spacy

akkadian-latin-ocr

OCR for Akkadian Latin transliterations

alp-course

This is the Jekyll repository which holds the syllabus for the Ancient Language Processing course

alp-mega2024

The repository of the 2023/24 DANES-ALP working group. We focus on the theme of 'low-source' and 'under-studied' Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) languages, with a special emphasis on Elamite. The goal of the DANES-ALP 2023/24 working group is to discuss these challenges, and especially to try and resolve them in a supportive group setting.

ben

Babylonian Engine

bonus_scriba

A digitzed list of Hittite names contained in cuneiform texts and in hieroglyphic seal inscriptions

bricksgeomagnetism

Stitches of images taken of baked bricks studied in the article "Exploring Geomagnetic Variations in Ancient Mesopotamia: Archaeomagnetic Study of Inscribed Baked Bricks from the First Three Millennia BCE"