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NEWS↑ trendingHacker News (AI)·10d ago

1M Ancient Greek fragments soon to be translated with the help of AI

The Austrian Academy of Sciences is developing Apollo, an AI with Mistral AI and Reply, to translate over one million ancient Greek text fragments. This initiative aims to accelerate the understanding and preservation of classical literature using advanced language models.

Translation Ancient Greek AI cultural preservation

RESEARCHarXiv CS.AI·18d ago

The Shape of Testimony: A Scalable Framework for Oral History Archive Comparison

This study presents a scalable computational framework for comparing oral history archives, specifically focusing on Holocaust survivor testimonies. By leveraging LLM-based analysis, discourse segmentation, and topic modeling, it quantifies the "structuredness" of testimonies. The research largely corroborates earlier distinctions while revealing significant overlaps between collections.

Archive Comparison Computational Analysis Oral History digital humanities