From Confucius to computational linguistics: quantifying cross-linguistic semantic similarity and semantic fidelity using large language models.

Translating The Analects from classical Chinese into English frequently results in semantic losses that obscure understanding and introduce ambiguities. This study aims to quantify the semantic similarities and differences between various English translations of The Analects and the original text, u...

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Published in:	Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 1021 - 1033
Main Authors:	Yang, Liwei, Zhou, Guijun, Lin, Lin
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Sep2025
Subjects:	Computational linguistics Language models Equivalence (Linguistics) Confucius, 551 B.C.-479 B.C. Translating & interpreting Confucianism
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