Show HN: Epitomē – A semantic search engine for ancient text
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6 days ago
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Barneyhill
6 days ago
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Hi everyone! A couple weeks ago I stumbled upon ISicily (https://github.com/ISicily/ISicily), a project to encode all ancient sicilian inscriptions in a strict xml language called EpiDoc. While the existing website is great I wanted to make an interface which makes it easy to explore the human stories contained within the inscribed text. In order to aid searching for concepts/terms I've also filled in missing translations/commentary with Claude Sonnet-3.5 translations (this is meant as a recreational tool - these translations are not to be trusted...)

Hopefully I'll be able to add more datasets in the coming weeks - if you know any do shout!

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skeptrune
5 days ago
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Really cool. Did you embed the AI commentary/translations or the original untranslated text?
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Barneyhill
4 days ago
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Embedded the AI translation/commentary (or human translated if present) - main purpose of the AI translations was to improve embeddings.
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keepamovin
6 days ago
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Wow! This is incredible. I love this!! Bring back the library of Alexandria!!
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throwaway743
3 days ago
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Oh, not that Barney Hill. Still really cool tho.
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