Researchers have developed computational models capable of predicting the geographic origins of Tang Dynasty poets based on linguistic patterns in their work. By analyzing the Complete Tang Poems and linking poets to their administrative regions, the models achieved 0.69 accuracy in distinguishing between southern and northern poets, and performed above chance for finer regional distinctions. The study also revealed a linguistic distance decay effect between regions, with the north-south language signal strengthening in the Late Tang period, and found that a classical Chinese transformer model (GuwenBERT) did not outperform simpler TF-IDF methods for this task. AI
IMPACT Demonstrates AI's potential for literary analysis and historical hypothesis generation.
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