Research on Machine Translation of Ancient Chinese Classics by Integrating Different Semantic Knowledge

  • Wu Mengcheng ,
  • Lin Litao ,
  • Wu Na ,
  • Xu Qiankun ,
  • Wang Dongbo
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  • 1 College of Information Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu, 210095; 

    2 Research Center for Humanities and Social Computing, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu, 210095; 

    3 Research Center for Correlation of Domain Knowledge, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu, 210095; 

    4 School of Information Management, Nanjing University, Jiangsu, 210023


Online published: 2024-03-14

Abstract

[Purpose/significance] This article aims to explore whether integrating different semantic knowledge into machine translation models can enhance the effectiveness of machine translation and which type of semantic knowl⁃ edge plays a more significant role. The purpose is to support the research in machine translation and the inheritance and dissemination of Chinese excellent traditional culture. [Method/process] The study selected 300,000 pairs of me⁃ ticulously processed "Ancient Chinese-Modern Chinese" parallel corpora from the "Twenty-Four Histories" as experi⁃ mental data. Based on the neural machine translation model OpenNMT, it integrated word boundary knowledge, partof- speech knowledge, entity knowledge, and dependency syntax knowledge into the training process of the machine translation model through three different feature fusion methods. [Result/conclusion] The integration of different se⁃ mantic knowledge with the model has varying impacts on the translation effectiveness of classical texts. Word boundary knowledge, part- of- speech knowledge, and entity knowledge contribute to the machine translation task, with entity knowledge making the largest contribution, while the role of dependency syntax knowledge has no obvious effect.

Cite this article

Wu Mengcheng , Lin Litao , Wu Na , Xu Qiankun , Wang Dongbo . Research on Machine Translation of Ancient Chinese Classics by Integrating Different Semantic Knowledge[J]. Information and Documentation Services, 2024 , 45(2) : 97 -104 . DOI: 10.12154/j.qbzlgz.2024.02.011

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