A diachronic language model for long-time span classical Chinese

Yuting Wei, Meiling Li, Yangfu Zhu, Yuanxing Xu, Yuqing Li, Bin Wu

Abstract: Highlights•Novel diachronic language model for long-time span classical Chinese.•A new temporal transformer for tracing semantic shifts is proposed.•A high-quality diachronic corpus created for classical Chinese.•Results verify our model’s effectiveness with a Temporal WSD dataset.