Graphilosophy: Graph-Based Digital Humanities Computing with The Four Books

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Main Authors: Do, Minh-Thu, Le-Tran, Quynh-Chau, Nguyen-Mai, Duc-Duy, Nguyen, Thien-Trang, Le, Khanh-Duy, Tran, Minh-Triet, Nguyen, Tam V., Le, Trung-Nghia
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author Do, Minh-Thu
Le-Tran, Quynh-Chau
Nguyen-Mai, Duc-Duy
Nguyen, Thien-Trang
Le, Khanh-Duy
Tran, Minh-Triet
Nguyen, Tam V.
Le, Trung-Nghia
author_facet Do, Minh-Thu
Le-Tran, Quynh-Chau
Nguyen-Mai, Duc-Duy
Nguyen, Thien-Trang
Le, Khanh-Duy
Tran, Minh-Triet
Nguyen, Tam V.
Le, Trung-Nghia
contents The Four Books have shaped East Asian intellectual traditions, yet their multi-layered interpretive complexity limits their accessibility in the digital age. While traditional bilingual commentaries provide a vital pedagogical bridge, computational frameworks are needed to preserve and explore this wisdom. This paper bridges AI and classical philosophy by introducing Graphilosophy, an ontology-guided, multi-layered knowledge graph framework for modeling and interpreting The Four Books. Integrating natural language processing, multilingual semantic embeddings, and humanistic analysis, the framework transforms a bilingual Chinese-Vietnamese corpus into an interpretively grounded resource. Graphilosophy encodes linguistic, conceptual, and interpretive relationships across interconnected layers, enabling cross-lingual retrieval and AI-assisted reasoning while explicitly preserving scholarly nuance and interpretive plurality. The system also enables non-expert users to trace the evolution of ethical concepts across borders and languages, ensuring that ancient wisdom remains a living resource for modern moral discourse rather than a static relic of the past. Through an interactive interface, users can trace the evolution of ethical concepts across languages, ensuring ancient wisdom remains relevant for modern discourse. A preliminary user study suggests the system's capacity to enhance conceptual understanding and cross-cultural learning. By linking algorithmic representation with ethical inquiry, this research exemplifies how AI can serve as a methodological bridge, accommodating the ambiguity of cultural heritage rather than reducing it to static data. The Source code and data are released at https://github.com/ThuDoMinh1102/confucian-texts-knowledge-graph.
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spellingShingle Graphilosophy: Graph-Based Digital Humanities Computing with The Four Books
Do, Minh-Thu
Le-Tran, Quynh-Chau
Nguyen-Mai, Duc-Duy
Nguyen, Thien-Trang
Le, Khanh-Duy
Tran, Minh-Triet
Nguyen, Tam V.
Le, Trung-Nghia
Computers and Society
The Four Books have shaped East Asian intellectual traditions, yet their multi-layered interpretive complexity limits their accessibility in the digital age. While traditional bilingual commentaries provide a vital pedagogical bridge, computational frameworks are needed to preserve and explore this wisdom. This paper bridges AI and classical philosophy by introducing Graphilosophy, an ontology-guided, multi-layered knowledge graph framework for modeling and interpreting The Four Books. Integrating natural language processing, multilingual semantic embeddings, and humanistic analysis, the framework transforms a bilingual Chinese-Vietnamese corpus into an interpretively grounded resource. Graphilosophy encodes linguistic, conceptual, and interpretive relationships across interconnected layers, enabling cross-lingual retrieval and AI-assisted reasoning while explicitly preserving scholarly nuance and interpretive plurality. The system also enables non-expert users to trace the evolution of ethical concepts across borders and languages, ensuring that ancient wisdom remains a living resource for modern moral discourse rather than a static relic of the past. Through an interactive interface, users can trace the evolution of ethical concepts across languages, ensuring ancient wisdom remains relevant for modern discourse. A preliminary user study suggests the system's capacity to enhance conceptual understanding and cross-cultural learning. By linking algorithmic representation with ethical inquiry, this research exemplifies how AI can serve as a methodological bridge, accommodating the ambiguity of cultural heritage rather than reducing it to static data. The Source code and data are released at https://github.com/ThuDoMinh1102/confucian-texts-knowledge-graph.
title Graphilosophy: Graph-Based Digital Humanities Computing with The Four Books
topic Computers and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28755