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workshop paper
Deep Learning Meets Egyptology: a Hieroglyphic Transformer for Translating Ancient Egyptian
keywords:
egyptology
middle egyptian
ancient languages
low resource machine translation
This work explores the potential of Transformer models focusing on the translation of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. We present a novel Hieroglyphic Transformer model, built upon the powerful M2M-100 multilingual translation framework and trained on a dataset we customised from the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae database. Our experiments demonstrate promising results, with the model achieving significant accuracy in translating hieroglyphics into both German and English. This work holds significant implications for Egyptology, potentially accelerating the translation process and unlocking new research approaches.