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THOTH.AI: a Large Language Model for Ancient Egyptian and Coptic
| Title of the event | THOTH.AI: a Large Language Model for Ancient Egyptian and Coptic |
| Series | Lecture Series "Digital Coptic Textual Studies". A Decade of Digital Research on the Written Heritage of Christian Egypt in Göttingen and Beyond |
| Organizer | Seminar für Ägyptologie und Koptologie |
| Speaker | Prof. So Miyagawa |
| Speaker institution | University of Tsukuba, Japan |
| Type of event | Vortrag |
| Category | Forschung |
| Registration required | Nein |
| Details | THOTH.AI is a large-scale language model for Ancient Egyptian and Coptic using a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture. This approach addresses fundamental challenges faced by low-resource historical languages by integrating vectorized philological resources—such as a lexical database with etymology—with modern language models, thus enabling semantic search and retrieval across different historical periods and writing systems. The RAG approach significantly improves machine translation accuracy between various stages of Ancient Egyptian–Coptic and modern languages, enables intertextuality analysis to identify textual similarities, and supports multiple computational tasks, including transliteration and text reconstruction. |
| Date | Start: 14.01.2026, 16:00 Uhr Ende: 14.01.2026 , 18:00 Uhr |
| Location |
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum (Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14) online The lectures will take place online via Zoom (https://uni-goettingen.de/de/702811.html) |
| Contact |
Dr. Andreas Effland, M.A. andreas.effland@uni-goettingen.de |
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