让普通人能读写楔形文字，打通4000年文化隔阂
TabletCraft: Bridging a 4,000-Year Cultural Gap with Bidirectional Akkadian NMT and Cuneiform Rendering
- 双向翻译：用ByT5模型实现英阿克迪语互译，支持内容创作
- 首次公开反向翻译指标：英→阿克迪语达48.5 BLEU
- 可生成可视化的楔形文字泥板，适合历史爱好者和教育场景
全球博物馆保存着五十万块楔形文字泥板，但现代人无法阅读或书写世界上最早的书写系统，导致四千年文化断层。现有NLP工具仅支持学者使用的单向翻译（阿克迪语→英语），无法反向生成。本文提出TabletCraft，首个开源双向交互系统，用户可阅读古泥板（阿克迪语→英语）并以楔形文字创作新内容（英语→阿克迪语→楔形符号→可视化泥板）。系统融合基于ByT5的翻译模型（训练数据11.6万对双向样本）、含14,240个映射（覆盖95.3%）的楔形符号转换器及可视化泥板渲染器，提供CLI与网页演示。在独立验证集Akkademia（2,812样本）上，阿克迪语→英语得分为49.1 BLEU，英语→阿克迪语为48.5 BLEU，为该方向首次发布的量化结果。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Half a million cuneiform clay tablets survive in museums worldwide, yet modern users can neither read nor write in the world's oldest writing system, leaving a 4,000-year cultural barrier that existing NLP tools have only partially addressed. Prior work enables one-way, scholar-oriented translation from Akkadian to English, but offers no path in the reverse direction: non-specialist users cannot compose new content in cuneiform, and therefore remain passive consumers of ancient culture rather than active participants. We present TabletCraft, the first open-source system that enables bidirectional interaction with Mesopotamian writing. Users can read ancient tablets (Akkadian to English) and compose new messages as cuneiform clay tablets (English to Akkadian to cuneiform to rendered tablet). The system integrates a ByT5-based translation model trained on 116K bidirectional samples, a cuneiform sign converter with 14,240 mappings (95.3% coverage), and a visual tablet renderer, packaged as a pip-installable toolkit with CLI and web demo. On the held-out Akkademia validation split (2,812 samples), we report 49.1 BLEU for Akkadian-to-English and 48.5 BLEU for English-to-Akkadian, the first published quantitative result in the reverse direction.
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