MuMMy: Multimodal Dataset supporting VLM-based Egyptology Research Assistant

摘要

We present the first multimodal dataset MuMMy, for developing research assistants that can interpret Egyptian hieroglyphic texts. It pairs images with Gardiner codes, transliteration, and English translation at two levels of granularity. We also evaluate several deep learning pipelines across OCR, transliteration, and translation tasks, revealing the complexity of the domain and the challenges posed by error accumulation.