This repository is the official implementation of NLPCC 2023 paper: Towards Effective Ancient Chinese Translation: Dataset, Model, and Evaluation.

The implementation is based on the text generation library TextBox 2.0.

You should clone the TextBox repository and follow its instructions.

git clone https://github.com/RUCAIBox/TextBox.git && cd TextBox
bash install.sh

You can download Erya datasets in: https://huggingface.co/datasets/RUCAIBox/Erya-dataset. You should download datasets such as xint in it and place them in the dataset folder.

To be specific, the datasets in Erya benchmark and their corresponding title are:

• hans: Book of han
• mings: Ming History
• shij: Shi Ji
• taip: Taiping Guangji
• xint: New Tang History
• xux: Xu Xiake's Travels

After setting up the environment, you can either use Erya model in the zero-shot scenario, or further tune Erya4FT model for a better translation performance.

We have released Erya model in: https://huggingface.co/RUCAIBox/Erya, which you can use directly to generate translation as below.

from transformers import BertTokenizer, CPTForConditionalGeneration

tokenizer = BertTokenizer.from_pretrained("RUCAIBox/Erya")
model = CPTForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("RUCAIBox/Erya")

input_ids = tokenizer("安世字子孺，少以父任为郎。", return_tensors='pt')
input_ids.pop("token_type_ids")

pred_ids = model.generate(max_new_tokens=256, **input_ids)
print(tokenizer.batch_decode(pred_ids, skip_special_tokens=True))

We also released Erya4FT model in: https://huggingface.co/RUCAIBox/Erya4FT, which you can further tune on the translation dataset.

python run_textbox.py --model=CPT --dataset=[dataset] --model_path=RUCAIBox/Erya4FT --epochs=[epoch_nums]