EvaCun

Evaluation of Natural Language Processing tools for Ancient Cuneiform Languages

Analyzing Cuneiform Languages with Large Language Models (LLMs) task
Including but not limited to Sumerian, Akkadian, Elamite, Hittite, Hurrian and others

Co-operated with ALP 2025@NAACL 2025, 3-4 April 2025

EvaCun 2025 Task

  • EvaCun 2025 is the second International Evaluation of Ancient Cuneiform Languages, focusing on lemmatization and text restoration using large language models in ancient Akkadian and Sumerian.
  • EvaCun 2025 is organized by Shai Gordin, Stav Klein, Emma Yavasan, and Shahar Spencer.
  • New in 2025! cash prizes for first and second best performing teams.

Important dates

  • Registration for participation/Training data release: December 1, 2024 - Janurary 15, 2025
  • Test data release: Feburary 15, 2025
  • Running Results Submission: Feburary 21, 2025
  • Tech report submission deadline: Feburary 28, 2025
  • Notification of acceptance: March 5, 2025
  • Camera-ready papers due: March 15, 2025

Sponsorships

EvaCun 2025 is sponsored by the electronic Babylonian Library (eBL) headed by Prof. Enrique Jiménez (LMU Munich), and by the ARCHIBAB project headed by Prof. Dominique Charpin (Collège de France), with the assistance of Dr. Marine Béranger (FU Berlin).