A Fine-Tuned BERT Classifier for Personal-Letter Titles in Late-Ming and Early-Qing Collected Works
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| contents | I present Lepton (Letter Prediction), a fine-tuned BERT classifier that predicts whether a title in a Classical Chinese wenji table of contents is a personal letter or a closely confusable preface (particularly the farewell-preface). Lepton fine-tunes bert-base-chinese on 5438 hand-labeled wenji titles from thirty-three late-Ming and early-Qing literati. I've deployed the model on Hugging Face and has been used at the China Biographical Database (CBDB) to identify approximately fifty-five thousand letters across mid-Ming through early-Qing wenji, populating the Ming Letter Platform. |
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| spellingShingle | A Fine-Tuned BERT Classifier for Personal-Letter Titles in Late-Ming and Early-Qing Collected Works Luo, Queenie Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Computers and Society Databases I present Lepton (Letter Prediction), a fine-tuned BERT classifier that predicts whether a title in a Classical Chinese wenji table of contents is a personal letter or a closely confusable preface (particularly the farewell-preface). Lepton fine-tunes bert-base-chinese on 5438 hand-labeled wenji titles from thirty-three late-Ming and early-Qing literati. I've deployed the model on Hugging Face and has been used at the China Biographical Database (CBDB) to identify approximately fifty-five thousand letters across mid-Ming through early-Qing wenji, populating the Ming Letter Platform. |
| title | A Fine-Tuned BERT Classifier for Personal-Letter Titles in Late-Ming and Early-Qing Collected Works |
| topic | Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Computers and Society Databases |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23103 |