From Inline Notes to Collected Commentaries: Toward Context-Preserving Organization of Exegetical Knowledge in Classical Chinese Texts
Inline notes and collected commentaries are important forms of scholarly communication that evolved within the Confucian exegetical tradition, yet have received little computational attention. Drawing on traditional Chinese exegetics and philology, this paper formulates collected commentary compilation as an NLP task and proposes a computational framework that preserves the contextual dependency of inline notes while enabling their automatic compilation and exegetical knowledge organization. It combines two-step prompt chaining for identifying the associated main-text segments and exegetical functions of annotations with cross-source mention clustering for integrating commentary across ed...
| Authors | Ke Liang, Qi Su, Churen Huang |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 31 July 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 31 July 2026 |
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