The Game of Keys and Queries: Parallelism and Cognitive Geometry in Chinese Regulated Verse.
Language models represent word meanings as vectors in a multidimensional space. Building on this property, this study offers a geometric perspective on parallelism in classical Chinese poetry, complementing traditional symbolic interpretations. To automatically detect parallelism in poetic verse, th...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Humanities & Arts Computing: A Journal of Digital Humanities Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 143 - 158 |
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Edinburgh University Press
Oct2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=188832461&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 188832461 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 17538548 2QD7 jtl: International Journal of Humanities & Arts Computing: A Journal of Digital Humanities issn: 17538548 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Oct2025 vid: 19 iid: 2 pid: 2327 pub: Edinburgh University Press artinfo: ui: 188832461 10.3366/ijhac.2025.0355 ppf: 143 ppct: 15 formats: tig: atl: The Game of Keys and Queries: Parallelism and Cognitive Geometry in Chinese Regulated Verse. aug: au: Kurzynski, Maciej Xu, Xiaotong Feng, Yu affil: Lingnan University Peking University su: Chinese poetry Language models Symmetry Semantics Pattern perception Cognitive maps (Psychology) sug: subj: Chinese poetry Language models Symmetry Semantics Pattern perception Cognitive maps (Psychology) keyword: artificial intelligence attention mechanism computational poetics conceptual spaces vector semantics ab: Language models represent word meanings as vectors in a multidimensional space. Building on this property, this study offers a geometric perspective on parallelism in classical Chinese poetry, complementing traditional symbolic interpretations. To automatically detect parallelism in poetic verse, the authors trained a BERT-based classifier on a dataset of over 140,000 regulated poems (lüshi 律詩), achieving performance on par with state-of-the-art generative models such as GPT-4.1 and DeepSeek R1. Unlike general-purpose models, the custom classifier yields unique insights into how poetic meaning is encoded geometrically. The analysis shows that parallel lines exhibit alignment in the model's attention patterns: the 'key' vectors of corresponding characters point in the same direction, while this alignment disappears in non-parallel lines. This finding is interpreted through Peter Gärdenfors's theory of cognitive semantics, which posits that humans make sense of the world by organizing experience into distinct conceptual regions. The authors argue that parallelism functions as a bridging mechanism that temporarily unites these disparate domains of meaning, suggesting a deeper, geometric order that underlies language itself. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y dt: @attributes: year: 2025 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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