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SUMMARY:Florian Keßler\, Diane Donner\, Shuyi Li (Erlangen): multiply
 itbyxreadingconcordancesinalanguagewithoutwordorsentenceboundaries
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for the RC21 Project Symposium\, where invited spe
 akers and project team members\, Poster Presenters will present their 
 work on methodology and applications of concordance analysis! &nbsp\; 
 Florian Keßler\, Diane Donner\, Shuyi Li (Erlangen): »multiplyitbyxr
 eadingconcordancesinalanguagewithoutwordorsentenceboundaries« Abstrac
 t: Reading concordance lines is one of the most popular methods in cor
 pus-based research. However\, the majority of research is conducted us
 ing corpora in Western languages sharing orthographic features such as
  spaces between words and punctuation separating clauses. In contrast 
 to this\, Literary Chinese\, the written language of imperial China\, 
 was written in scriptura continua\, without spaces or punctuation mark
 s. How does this affect the quality of concordance reading\, and can L
 arge-Language-Models (LLMs) make the process more efficient by decompo
 sing the text into words and sentences? In order to answer these quest
 ions\, in this ongoing project\, we read concordances extracted from f
 ive ancient Chinese mathematical texts preprocessed with different seg
 mentation strategies\, with an emphasis on discovering valency pattern
 s of common operands. For example\, in the texts\, an operand used in 
 an operation is often introduced with the particle “yi 以”\, givi
 ng rise to such constructs as “multiply it by the 23 people” (以
 二十三人乘之). But this is not the only choice for stating that 
 operation\, as we also find constructions such as “multiply x and y 
 with each other” (x y xiang cheng 相乘). How were such patterns di
 stributed\, and were there any changes over time? We use these questio
 ns as the background to our exploration of different pre-processing st
 rategies for concordance reading. In particular\, we read concordances
  of common operators such as “cheng 乘” (to multiply) in four dif
 ferent versions of the same corpus consisting of ancient Chinese mathe
 matical works: 1) with neither punctuation nor word segmentation\, i.e
 . true to the original f
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LOCATION:Kollegienhaus\, Universitätsstraße 15\, 91054 Erlangen
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