Larth: Dataset and Machine Translation for Etruscan

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Abstract

Etruscan is an ancient language spoken in Italy from the 7thcentury BC to the 1stcentury AD. There are no native speakers of the language at the present day, and its resources are scarce, as there exist only around 12,000 known inscriptions. To the best of our knowledge, there are no publicly available Etruscan corpora for natural language processing. Therefore, we propose a dataset for machine translation from Etruscan to English, which contains 2891 translated examples from existing academic sources. Some examples are extracted manually, while others are acquired in an automatic way. Along with the dataset, we benchmark different machine translation models observing that it is possible to achieve a BLEU score of 10.1 with a small transformer model. Releasing the dataset1 can help enable future research on this language, similar languages or other languages with scarce resources.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Ancient Language Processing Workshop associated with RANLP-2023
EditorsAdam Anderson, Shai Gordin, Bin Li, Yudong Liu, Marco C. Passarotti
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages39-48
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9789544520878
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Sept 2023
EventALP Workshop 2023 : 1st Workshop on Ancient Language Processing at RANLP 2023 - Vama, Bulgaria
Duration: 8 Sept 20238 Sept 2023
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Workshop

WorkshopALP Workshop 2023 : 1st Workshop on Ancient Language Processing at RANLP 2023
Abbreviated titleRANLP 2023
Country/TerritoryBulgaria
CityVama
Period8/09/238/09/23
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