Thousands of years ago, Chinese characters (汉字) appeared on animal bones (骨头) and bamboo before they were written on paper. Now there is a new place to hold the ancient Chinese texts in the modern age.
Recently, a research team from Nanjing Agricultural University together with Gulian, a leading ancient Chinese text publisher, introduced a large language model called Xunzi.
“Traditional Chinese characters and the absence of punctuation marks (标点符号) are always making reading traditional texts hard,” said Wang Dongbo, who led the research.
To create this model, Wang and his teammates did a lot of research on Chinese classics (名著). “We have to work on a lot of Chinese characters and we want to share them with the world,” said Wang.
However, it was not an easy job. Wang said they needed to learn these classics first and then mark the characters into different groups.
But their hard work seems to pay off. Now, the model can help users understand and study ancient Chinese texts. “The model can help us learn more information hidden in our traditional culture and find something new. We also want to let more people understand traditional Chinese culture,” said Wang. So they shared the large language model on the website, allowing users to download and use it for free.
【小题1】What is Xunzi in this text?| A．A famous writer. | B．A text publisher. |
| C．A language model. | D．An ancient book. |
| A．To invent a new kind of Chinese characters. |
| B．To divide the characters into different groups. |
| C．To encourage foreigners to learn Chinese classics. |
| D．To help people read traditional texts more easily. |
| A．It’s not safe enough. | B．It’s valuable and useful. |
| C．It’s modern and special. | D．It’s difficult to use for free. |
