“The Fourth Chinese Spatial Cognition Evaluation Task (SpaCE 2024) presents the first comprehensive Chinese benchmark to assess spatial semantic understanding and reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). It comprises five subtasks in the form of multiple-choice questions: (1) identifying spatial semantic roles; (2) retrieving spatial referents; (3) detecting spatial semantic anomalies; (4) recognizing synonymous spatial expression with different forms; (5) conducting spatial position reasoning. In addition to proposing new tasks, SpaCE 2024 applied a rule-based method to generate high-quality synthetic data with difficulty levels for the reasoning task. 12 teams submitted their models and results, and the top-performing team attained an accuracy of 60.24%, suggesting that there is still significant room for current LLMs to improve, especially in tasks requiring high spatial cognitive processing.”

“第三届中文空间语义理解评测任务(SpaCE2023)旨在测试机器的空间语义理解能力,包括三个子任务:(1)空间信息异常识别任务;(2)空间语义角色标注任务;(3)空间场景异同判断任务。本届评测在SpaCE2022的基础上,优化了子任务一和子任务二的任务设计,并提出了子任务三这一全新的评测任务。最终有1支队伍提交参赛结果,并且在子任务一上的成绩超过了基线模型。本文还报告了大语言模型ChatGPT在SpaCE2023三个子任务上的表现,结合问题提出指令设计可改进的方向。”

Abstract Meaning Representation is a sentence-level meaning representation, which abstracts the meaning of sentences into a rooted acyclic directed graph. With the continuous expansion of Chinese AMR corpus, more and more scholars have developed parsing systems to automatically parse sentences into Chinese AMR. However, the current parsers can’t deal with concept alignment and relation alignment, let alone the evaluation methods for AMR parsing. Therefore, to make up for the vacancy of Chinese AMR parsing evaluation methods, based on AMR evaluation metric smatch, we have improved the algorithm of generating triples so that to make it compatible with concept alignment and relation alignment. Finally, we obtain a new integrity metric align-smatch for paring evaluation. A comparative research then was conducted on 20 manually annotated AMR and gold AMR, with the result that align-smatch works well in alignments and more robust in evaluating arcs. We also put forward some fine-grained metric for evaluating concept alignment, relation alignment and implicit concepts, in order to further measure parsers’ performance in subtasks.

The basic tasks of ancient Chinese information processing include automatic sentence segmentation, word segmentation, part-of-speech tagging and named entity recognition. Tasks such as lexical analysis need to be based on sentence segmentation because of the reason that a plenty of ancient books are not punctuated. However, step-by-step processing is prone to cause multi-level diffusion of errors. This paper designs and implements an integrated annotation system of sentence segmentation and lexical analysis. The BiLSTM-CRF neural network model is used to verify the generalization ability and the effect of sentence segmentation and lexical analysis on different label levels on four cross-age test sets. Research shows that the integration method adopted in ancient Chinese improves the F1-score of sentence segmentation, word segmentation and part of speech tagging. Based on the experimental results of each test set, the F1-score of sentence segmentation reached 78.95, with an average increase of 3.5%; the F1-score of word segmentation reached 85.73%, with an average increase of 0.18%; and the F1-score of part-of-speech tagging reached 72.65, with an average increase of 0.35%.