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The Cuneiform Language Identification (CLI) dataset attempts to understand seven cuneiform languages and dialects, including Sumerian and six dialects of the Akkadian language: Old Babylonian, Middle Babylonian Peripheral, Standard Babylonian, Neo-Babylonian, Late Babylonian, and Neo-Assyrian. However, this dataset suffers from the problem of imbalanced categories.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Aim<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Therefore, this article aims to build a system capable of distinguishing between several cuneiform languages and solving the problem of unbalanced categories in the CLI dataset.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Oversampling technique was used to balance the dataset, and the performance of machine learning algorithms such as Support Vector Machine (SVM), K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), Decision Tree (DT), Random Forest (RF), and deep learning such as deep neural networks (DNNs) using the unigram feature extraction method was investigated.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The proposed method using machine learning algorithms (SVM, KNN, DT, and RF) on a balanced dataset obtained an accuracy of 88.15, 88.14, 94.13, and 95.46%, respectively, while the DNN model got an accuracy of 93%. This proves improved performance compared to related works.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This proves the improvement of classifiers when working on a balanced dataset. 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