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Dating Greek Papyri with Text Regression (2023.acl-long)
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John Pavlopoulos, Maria Konstantinidou, Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello, Holger Essler, Asimina Paparigopoulou
| Challenge: | a large number of Greek papyri documents can only be dated tentatively or in approximation due to the lack of decisive evidence. |
| Approach: | a new study trains regression models to estimate Greek papyri's date using a dataset of 389 transcriptions . the authors propose a method to estimate the date of 159 Greek pamphlets, which are only the upper limit known . |
| Outcome: | a new study predicts a date for Greek papyri with an average MAE of 54 years and an MSE of 1.17 . the model outperforms image classifiers and other baselines for 159 manuscripts, with only the upper limit known . |