Cong Feng
2025
Multi-Modal Multi-Granularity Tokenizer for Chu Bamboo Slips
Yingfa Chen
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Chenlong Hu
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Cong Feng
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Chenyang Song
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Shi Yu
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Xu Han
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Zhiyuan Liu
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Maosong Sun
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics
This study presents a multi-modal multi-granularity tokenizer specifically designed for analyzing ancient Chinese scripts, focusing on the Chu bamboo slip (CBS) script used during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period (771-256 BCE) in Ancient China. Considering the complex hierarchical structure of ancient Chinese scripts, where a single character may be a combination of multiple sub-characters, our tokenizer first adopts character detection to locate character boundaries. Then it conducts character recognition at both the character and sub-character levels. Moreover, to support the academic community, we assembled the first large-scale dataset of CBSs with over 100K annotated character image scans. On the part-of-speech tagging task built on our dataset, using our tokenizer gives a 5.5% relative improvement in F1-score compared to mainstream sub-word tokenizers. Our work not only aids in further investigations of the specific script but also has the potential to advance research on other forms of ancient Chinese scripts.
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