arXiv cs.AI· Lucas Carrit Delgado Pinheiro, Yuan-Sen Ting, Jon Clindaniel, Lu Li, Yingbin Liang, Ness Shroff·· 3 小时前AI 评分46
用语言模型与天文工具自动、可审计地断代巴比伦天文日志
Automated, auditable dating of the Babylonian Astronomical Diaries with language models and astronomical tools
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研究者提出一套自动断代系统，为近乎散佚纪年的巴比伦天文日志泥板确定年份：规则解析器将观测记录转为结构化条款，语言模型核对文本并补漏，天文工具在公元前626年至公元后75年的701年间排序候选年份。在120块已知年代泥板上，排名前列年份包含学界已定年份的比例达96%，其中86块的首位组为单一年份；系统还为ADART IV中56条未断代条目给出候选年份，结果、代码与协议均在交互页面公开。
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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.AI · arxiv.org