As part of a guest lecture at the University of Warsaw by Wioletta Miśkiewicz (CNRS/IHPST/Paris) in cooperation with DELab UW, on Monday January 19 2015
dr Wojciech Jaworski (Institute of Computer Science, University of Warsaw)
Ph.D. Marek Stepien (Faculty of History, University of Warsaw)
prof. Ph.D. Jerzy Tyszkiewicz (Institute of Computer Science, University of Warsaw)
presented the project:
Algorithms and computer science in research on the oldest economic archives in the world. An example of Sumerian cuneiform texts from the 3rd millennium BC
Location: room 106, UW campus (former Computer Science Centre), 17:00 p.m.
The authors jointly conducted research for several years on Sumerian economic tablets from the period of the Third Dynasty of Ur. Due to the nature of these documents and their huge number, already at the level of tens of thousands, these archives were particularly amenable to the application of computer research techniques.
"We have managed to develop and implement several original ideas for algorithmic detection of documents particularly worthy of analysis in this mass. We have also undertaken much more far-reaching attempts to automatically analyze and summarize large sets of documents concerning a common, narrow thematic area. We will talk about the results of this work, both from the perspective of a historian and computer scientists."
prof. Ph.D. Jerzy Tyszkiewicz – scientifically deals with spreadsheets, databases, logic and computational methods in the humanities.
Ph.D. Marek Stepien – ancient historian and Assyriologist; specializing in the history of ancient Mesopotamia and research on Sumerian-Akkadian cuneiform writing.
dr Wojciech Jaworski – was a joint PhD student of Marek Stępień and Jerzy Tyszkiewicz, currently works as a researcher in the field of natural language processing and data analysis.