Vector Based Stylistic Analysis on Ancient Chinese Books: Take the Three Commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals as an Example

Yue Qi, Liu Liu, Bin Li, Dongbo Wang


Abstract
Commentary of Gongyang, Commentary of Guliang, and Commentary of Zuo are collectively called the Three Commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals, which are the supplement and interpretation of the content of Spring and Autumn Annals with value in historical and literary research. In traditional research paradigms, scholars often explored the differences between the Three Commentaries within the details in contexts. Starting from the view of computational humanities, this paper examines the differences in the language style of the Three Commentaries through the representation of language, which takes the methods of deep learning. Specifically, this study vectorizes the context at word and sentence levels. It maps them into the same plane to find the differences between the use of words and sentences in the Three Commentaries. The results show that the Commentary of Gongyang and the Commentary of Guliang are relatively similar, while the Commentary of Zuo is significantly different. This paper verifies the feasibility of deep learning methods in stylistics study under computational humanities. It provides a valuable perspective for studying the Three Commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals.
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2023.alp-1.14
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Proceedings of the Ancient Language Processing Workshop
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September
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2023
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Varna, Bulgaria
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Adam Anderson, Shai Gordin, Bin Li, Yudong Liu, Marco C. Passarotti
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INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria
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117–121
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Yue Qi, Liu Liu, Bin Li, and Dongbo Wang. 2023. Vector Based Stylistic Analysis on Ancient Chinese Books: Take the Three Commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals as an Example. In Proceedings of the Ancient Language Processing Workshop, pages 117–121, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria.
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Vector Based Stylistic Analysis on Ancient Chinese Books: Take the Three Commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals as an Example (Qi et al., ALP-WS 2023)
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