{"id":10910,"date":"2019-01-21T11:49:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T10:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhd-blog.org\/?p=10910"},"modified":"2019-01-28T16:43:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T15:43:32","slug":"dh-kolloquium-an-der-bbaw-14-2-2019-the-hieroglyphics-initiative-an-open-source-digital-platform-for-egyptology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhd-blog.org\/?p=10910","title":{"rendered":"DH-Kolloquium an der BBAW, 14.2.2019, &#8222;The Hieroglyphics Initiative: an open source digital platform for Egyptology&#8220;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Der n\u00e4chste Termin des <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbaw.de\/telota\/dh-kolloquium\">DH-Kolloquiums an der BBAW<\/a> findet <strong>nicht<\/strong> wie gewohnt am ersten Freitag des Monats statt, <strong>sondern am 14. Februar 2019 um 18 Uhr<\/strong> und wird zusammen mit dem <a href=\"http:\/\/aaew.bbaw.de\/\">Akademienvorhaben &#8222;Strukturen und Transformationen des Wortschatzes der \u00e4gyptischen Sprache. Text- und Wissenskultur im Alten \u00c4gypten&#8220;<\/a> veranstaltet. Gemeinsam m\u00f6chten wir Sie herzlich zu folgendem Vortrag einladen:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8222;The Hieroglyphics Initiative: an open source digital platform for Egyptology&#8220;<\/strong><br \/>\nAlex Frym, Psycle \/ Hieroglyphics Initiative<br \/>\nRoy Gardner, Psycle \/ Hieroglyphics Initiative<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donnerstag, 14.02.2019, 18 Uhr<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Akademiegeb\u00e4ude am Gendarmenmarkt<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Einstein-Saal, J\u00e4gerstra\u00dfe 22-23, 10117 Berlin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Can we train a machine to translate Egyptian hieroglyphs? This is the question the independent production company Psycle explored in a Ubisoft research project. Taking the facsimiles created by Egyptologists as our starting point, we created a processing pipeline that begins with photographs of hieroglyphs in situ, and ends with possible translations in a modern language. The pipeline uses computer vision techniques to find candidate glyphs and glyph groups in an automatically generated facsimile. Next, neural nets are used to recognise the candidate glyphs and, finally, sequences of glyphs are compared to dictionaries of glyph words in order to find possible translations.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture discusses not only the technical challenges of the project, but also highlights the limitations of machine learning, and the critical importance of the amount and consistency of data for enterprises of this type. The engagement and support of the academic community, which was crucial in giving direction and substance to the project, is also discussed.<\/p>\n<p>The project has generated a research and teaching tool for Egyptologists, an open-source repository of code, and several avenues for further research and collaboration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bitte beachten Sie, dass diesmal eine seperate Anmeldung bis zum 07.02. \u00fcber die Website der BBAW n\u00f6tig ist: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbaw.de\/hieroglyphic\">http:\/\/www.bbaw.de\/hieroglyphic<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Der n\u00e4chste Termin des DH-Kolloquiums an der BBAW findet nicht wie gewohnt am ersten Freitag des Monats statt, sondern am 14. Februar 2019 um 18 Uhr und wird zusammen mit dem Akademienvorhaben &#8222;Strukturen und Transformationen des Wortschatzes der \u00e4gyptischen Sprache. Text- und Wissenskultur im Alten \u00c4gypten&#8220; veranstaltet. Gemeinsam m\u00f6chten wir Sie herzlich zu folgendem Vortrag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,4,657],"tags":[108,759,412,736,393,231],"class_list":["post-10910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kolloquium","category-veranstaltungen","category-vortrag","tag-agyptologie","tag-bbaw","tag-clarin-d","tag-dh-kolloquium","tag-hieroglyphen","tag-telota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhd-blog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhd-blog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhd-blog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhd-blog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhd-blog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dhd-blog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10937,"href":"https:\/\/dhd-blog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10910\/revisions\/10937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhd-blog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhd-blog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhd-blog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}