Exploring the Capabilities of ChatGPT in Ancient Chinese Translation and Person Name Recognition
This work addresses the challenge of applying AI to ancient Chinese understanding, but it is incremental as it tests an existing model on new data.
The paper evaluated ChatGPT's ability to translate ancient Chinese to modern Chinese and recognize ancient Chinese names, finding that its proficiency is unsatisfactory but performs best with three context sentences for translation.
ChatGPT's proficiency in handling modern standard languages suggests potential for its use in understanding ancient Chinese. This paper explores ChatGPT's capabilities on ancient Chinese via two tasks: translating ancient Chinese to modern Chinese and recognizing ancient Chinese names. A comparison of ChatGPT's output with human translations serves to evaluate its comprehension of ancient Chinese. The findings indicate that: (1.)the proficiency of ancient Chinese by ChatGPT is yet to reach a satisfactory level; (2.) ChatGPT performs the best on ancient-to-modern translation when feeding with three context sentences. To help reproduce our work, we display the python code snippets used in this study.