Automatic Transferring between Ancient Chinese and Contemporary Chinese [article]

Zhiyuan Zhang, Wei Li, Xu Sun
2018 arXiv   pre-print
During the long time of development, Chinese language has evolved a great deal. Native speakers now have difficulty in reading sentences written in ancient Chinese. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised algorithm that constructs sentence-aligned ancient-contemporary pairs out of the abundant passage-aligned corpus. With this method, we build a large parallel corpus. We propose to apply the sequence to sequence model to automatically transfer between ancient and contemporary Chinese
more » ... . Experiments show that both our alignment and transfer method can produce very good result except for some circumstances that even human translators can make mistakes without background knowledge.
arXiv:1803.01557v2 fatcat:ugb7dxy4anhy5caamak3fdm77a