COVID-19 is spreading rapidly throughout the world. As of 14 April 2020, 128,000 people died of COVID-19, while 1.99 million cases in 210 countries and territories were reported in 219.747 cases. As the virus spreads at a very high rate, there is a huge shortage of medical testing kits all over the world. The respiratory system is the part of the human body most affected by the virus, so the use of X-rays of the chest may prove to be a more efficient way than the thermal screening of the human body. In this paper, we are trying to develop a method that uses radiology, i.e. X-rays for detecting the novel coronavirus. Along with the paper, we also release a dataset for the research community and further development extracted from various medical research hospital facilities treating COVID-19 patients.
The Sumerian cuneiform script was invented more than 5,000 years ago and represents one of the oldest in history. We present the first attempt to translate Sumerian texts into English automatically. We publicly release high-quality corpora for standardized training and evaluation and report results on experiments with supervised, phrase-based, and transfer learning techniques for machine translation. Quantitative and qualitative evaluations indicate the usefulness of the translations. Our proposed methodology provides a broader audience of researchers with novel access to the data, accelerates the costly and time-consuming manual translation process, and helps them better explore the relationships between Sumerian cuneiform and Mesopotamian culture.
Despite the recent advancements of attentionbased deep learning architectures across a majority of Natural Language Processing tasks, their application remains limited in a lowresource setting because of a lack of pretrained models for such languages. In this study, we make the first attempt to investigate the challenges of adapting these techniques to an extremely low-resource language -Sumerian cuneiform -one of the world's oldest written language attested from at least the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC. Specifically, we introduce the first cross-lingual information extraction pipeline for Sumerian, which includes part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition, and machine translation. We introduce InterpretLR, an interpretability toolkit for low-resource NLP and use it alongside human evaluations to gauge the trained models. Notably, all our techniques and most components of our pipeline can be generalised to any low-resource language. We publicly release all our implementations including a novel data set with domain-specific pre-processing to promote further research in this domain.2. 1(disz) kusz masz2 niga 1 hide, grain-fed goat;3. kusz udu sa2-du11 sheep hides, regular offerings, 4. ki {d}iszkur-illat-ta from Adda-illat, obverse.reverse.
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