Show HN: Epitomē – A semantic search engine for ancient text

https://www.barneyhill.com/pages/epitome/

by Barneyhill • 2 years ago

31 5 2 years ago

keepamovin• 2 years ago

Wow! This is incredible. I love this!! Bring back the library of Alexandria!!

Barneyhill2• 2 years ago

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!

skeptrune• 2 years ago

Really cool. Did you embed the AI commentary/translations or the original untranslated text?

Barneyhill2• 2 years ago

Embedded the AI translation/commentary (or human translated if present) - main purpose of the AI translations was to improve embeddings.

throwaway743• 2 years ago

Oh, not that Barney Hill. Still really cool tho.

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