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Semi-Automatic Annotation of Babylonian Cuneiform Texts Cover

Semi-Automatic Annotation of Babylonian Cuneiform Texts

Open Access
|Mar 2026

Figures & Tables

Table 1

Distribution of the texts by genre and sub-corpus.

ADMINISTRATIVELEGALLETTERLITERARYOFFICIALSCHOLARLYUNCERTAIN
Achemenet
CT 55160111180015
Jursa, Bēl-rēmanni13121400018
Murašû archive076800004
Strassmaier10855933001710
YOS 7196000000
BALT
Everling153572711213314
Hackl et al., 201100290000
Hackl et al., 2014002420000
Levavi, 2018002160000
Waerzeggers, 2014018000009
Total201224665532151060
Figure 1

The BALT project on Oracc, showing an annotated edition of a text.

Figure 2

Korp’s user interface, showing the search results for the Akkadian word suluppu, “date (fruit).”

Figure 3

Semantic network showing the Akkadian words that most typically co-occur with the word libbu, “inner body, interior.”

Table 2

Accuracy of lemmatization and POS tagging.

LEMMAPOSLEMMA + POS
BALT93,4%95,9%90,9%
Achemenet96,3%96,1%93,7%
Total94,9%96,0%92,3%
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.494 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Submitted on: Dec 11, 2025
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Accepted on: Feb 3, 2026
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Published on: Mar 6, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2026 Tero Alstola, Aleksi Sahala, Jonathan Valk, Matthew Ong, published by Ubiquity Press
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