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面向史诗佚失文本复原的高效神经翻译模型——以格萨尔分章本为例

Efficient Neural Machine Translation for Lost Epic Text Reconstruction: A Case Study of a Chapter-based Gesar Epic

  • 摘要: 格萨尔史诗是一座以藏、汉、蒙等多民族语言文字广泛流传的多语种文化宝库。目前,仍有大量佚失的史诗文本亟待抢救保护、系统整理、校勘与出版。不同语种之间的高效翻译,有助于互补各版本中缺失的内容,厘清史诗的整体框架与发展脉络。以格萨尔分章本为例,目前共存有六种不同版本。其中,经典分章本贵德版仅存汉译本,原始藏文蓝本已佚失。为复原该佚失版本,该文开展了以下三项工作:首先,以与分章本密切相关的分部本为基础,构建了规模达十万条的格萨尔史诗藏汉平行数据集;其次,提出了一种融合史诗实体信息的高效神经翻译模型,并基于该模型完成了贵德分章本的汉译藏自动翻译任务。通过与已有完整分章本进行对比发现,该复原译文相似度达到82.96%,最终形成了可供参照的藏文蓝本复原稿;最后,融合多维度语义特征的史诗主题及文体相似度计算方法,对复原分章本与现存其他版本进行了校勘比对,进一步探讨版本差异、主次关系及源流演变。

     

    Abstract: The Epic of King Gesar is a multilingual cultural treasure widely transmitted in Tibetan, Chinese, Mongolian, and other ethnic languages. In fact, a substantial portion of the epic texts remains lost, creating an urgent need for rescue, preservation, systematic organization, collation, and publication. Efficient cross-lingual translation can help compensate for missing content and clarify the epic’s overall structure and developmental trajectory. Taking the chapter-based editions as an example, six distinct versions currently coexist, while the classic Guide chapter-based edition survives only in Chinese translation. To reconstruct this missing version, this study first constructs a large-scale Tibetan–Chinese parallel corpus of the Epic of King Gesar, containing 100,000 aligned sentence pairs. Then an efficient neural machine translation model integrating epic-specific entity information is proposed, and this model is applied to perform Chinese-to-Tibetan translation of the Guide edition. A comparison with complete existing chapter-based editions shows that the reconstructed text achieves a similarity score of 82.96%, resulting in a reference draft of the Tibetan source manuscript. In addition, we collate the reconstructed edition against other extant versions, further exploring their textual differences, primary-secondary relationships, and evolutionary pathways.

     

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