Akkadian “Petitionary Letters to God”

ACCENT: Letters to a lonely God VIEWPOINT: Rethinking London

D uarte , a U niversity of N otre D am e g rad u a te in 1948, w as of­ fe red an en thusiastic official recep tion as he began a s ta te v isit and he showed his ap ­ p recia tion for U.S. support by k issing an A m erican flag dis­ p layed on the W hite House South Lawn. A fter a cerem ony th a t fea­ tu red full m ilita ry honors, R eag an said peace prospects for C en tral A m erica have be...

Parsing Akkadian Verbs with Prolog

T h i s p a p e r d e s c r i b e s a parsing/generation system for finite verbal forms in Akkadian, with the possible addition of suffixes, implemented in Prolog. The work described provides the framework and engine to interpret the D, N, and G stems along with accusative, dative and ventive endings.

Akkadian Word Segmentation

We present experiments on word segmentation for Akkadian cuneiform, an ancient writing system and a language used for about 3 millennia in the ancient Near East. To our best knowledge, this is the first study of this kind applied to either the Akkadian language or the cuneiform writing system. As a logosyllabic writing system, cuneiform structurally resembles Eastern Asian writing systems, so, ...

Research-agenda Bias: letters to the editor

God Knows (But does God Believe?)

The standard view in epistemology is that propositional knowledge entails belief. Positive arguments are seldom given for this entailment thesis, however; instead, its truth is typically assumed. Against the entailment thesis, Myers-Schulz and Schwitzgebel (forthcoming) report that a non trivial percentage of people think that there can be propositional knowledge without belief. In this paper, ...