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BERT classifier identifies 55,000 letters in Chinese historical texts

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Researchers have developed Lepton, a BERT-based classifier designed to distinguish personal letter titles from prefaces in Classical Chinese collected works. The model was fine-tuned on over 5,000 hand-labeled titles from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. This tool has been implemented at the China Biographical Database to identify an estimated 55,000 letters, contributing to the Ming Letter Platform. AI

IMPACT This model demonstrates a novel application of NLP for historical text analysis, potentially enabling new avenues for digital humanities research.

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BERT classifier identifies 55,000 letters in Chinese historical texts

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Queenie Luo ·

    A Fine-Tuned BERT Classifier for Personal-Letter Titles in Late-Ming and Early-Qing Collected Works

    arXiv:2605.23103v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: I present Lepton (Letter Prediction), a fine-tuned BERT classifier that predicts whether a title in a Classical Chinese wenji table of contents is a personal letter or a closely confusable preface (particularly the farewell-prefac…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Queenie Luo ·

    A Fine-Tuned BERT Classifier for Personal-Letter Titles in Late-Ming and Early-Qing Collected Works

    I present Lepton (Letter Prediction), a fine-tuned BERT classifier that predicts whether a title in a Classical Chinese wenji table of contents is a personal letter or a closely confusable preface (particularly the farewell-preface). Lepton fine-tunes bert-base-chinese on 5438 ha…

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