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Can Large Language Model Comprehend Ancient Chinese? A Preliminary Test on ACLUE

2023/10/14 by Yixuan Zhang, Haonan Li, Zhang, Yixuan +1
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #Computational and Text Analysis Methods #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Topic Modeling

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2310.09550

openalex publication_date 2023/10/14 · openalex created_date 2023/10/18 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Large language models (LLMs) have showcased remarkable capabilities in understanding and generating language. However, their ability in comprehending ancient languages, particularly ancient Chinese, remains largely unexplored. To bridge this gap, we present ACLUE, an evaluation benchmark designed to assess the capability of language models in comprehending ancient Chinese. ACLUE consists of 15 tasks cover a range of skills, spanning phonetic, lexical, syntactic, semantic, inference and knowledge. Through the evaluation of eight state-of-the-art LLMs, we observed a noticeable disparity in their performance between modern Chinese and ancient Chinese. Among the assessed models, ChatGLM2 demonstrates the most remarkable performance, achieving an average score of 37.4%. We have made our code and data public available.

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