Cole Simmons

Research

The Spatial Logic of Early Dynastic Cuneiform Writing

A Preliminary Analysis of Texts from Pre-Sargonic Lagaš

Developing a quantitative methodology for studying how the spatial relationships of cuneiform signs changes during one of the most foundational shifts in early writing.

Date
Jun 2026 (anticipated)
Venue
University of Oxford
Type
Master's Thesis

SumTablets

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A Transliteration Dataset of Sumerian Tablets

(1) Released a dataset mapping Unicode cuneiform glyphs to transliterations (91,606 tablets / 6,970,407 glyphs).
(2) Set naïve + transformer baselines on transliteration task, reaching 97.55 chrF on held-out transliteration.

Date
Aug 2024
Venue
ACL
Type
Conference Paper

Babbage in Babylon

Pioneering Deep Learning Approaches to Sumerian Cuneiform

Deep learning approaches to three cuneiform tasks: OCR, transliteration, and translation.

Date
Jun 2024
Venue
Stanford
Type
Honors Thesis
Award
Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research

Products

Ream

An AI-powered alternative to Overleaf. Close to launch, on hold during my MPhil.

AbstractCRE

Platform for extracting and managing structured data from commercial real estate legal documents.

Other

Cuneiforge

A tool for annotating the cuneiform set texts I study in my classes.