arXiv cs.CL· Lucas Carrit Delgado Pinheiro, Yuan-Sen Ting, Jon Clindaniel, Lu Li, Yingbin Liang, Ness Shroff·· 12 小时前AI 评分34
语言模型与天文工具实现巴比伦天文日记的自动化可审计断代
Automated, auditable dating of the Babylonian Astronomical Diaries with language models and astronomical tools
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一套结合规则解析器、语言模型与天文工具的系统，为巴比伦天文日记中丢失日期公式的泥板自动排序候选年份，覆盖公元前626年至公元75年共701年。在120块有已发布日期的泥板上，排名并列最高的年份有96%包含已发布年份，其中86块的最高组为单一年份、84块与已发布年份一致。系统对ADART IV中56条无日期条目给出排序候选年份，并公开每块泥板背后的文本段落与计算位置。
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Abstract:The Babylonian Astronomical Diaries record the sky over nearly six centuries. Many tablets are broken and have lost their date formula. Experts dated many of them one tablet at a time in the standard edition, Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia (ADART). They used the recorded sky and other evidence, such as year formulas and royal names. Our system automates the astronomical part for all tablets with the same rules. A rule-based parser turns the recorded observations into clauses, short statements with fixed fields. A language model checks them against the text and adds observations that the parser missed. Astronomical tools test the clauses in all 701 years from 626 BCE to AD 75. The system ranks the years by how well they agree with the clauses. The system withholds published dates until its results are final, and the output lists the passages and computed positions behind each candidate year. On 120 dated tablets, the years tied at the top of the ranking include the published year in 96% of cases. For 86 of them, this top group is a single year, the published year in 84. In 119 of the 120, the reported candidate set contains it. For 56 undated entries of ADART IV, the system gives ranked candidate years. For each tablet, the results show how far astronomy alone narrows the year. An interactive page at this https URL follows each tablet and links the code, protocol and results.
| Comments: | 15 pages, 6 figures, 7 tables, including the SI Appendix. Code, data and interactive page: this https URL and this https URL |
| Subjects: | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2610.34297 [astro-ph.IM] |
| (or arXiv:2610.34297v1 [astro-ph.IM] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.34297 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) |
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From: Yuan-Sen Ting Assoc. Prof. [view email]
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来源：arXiv cs.CL · arxiv.org