Chinese Philosophy in Excavated Early Texts

Binaries in early Chinese texts: locating entities on continuums

Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy

History of Chinese Philosophy Overview of Chinese Philosophy

Pre-Confucian China Although there is evidence of advanced civilization in China in very ancient times, actual recorded history begins with the Shang dynasty, in the fourteenth century B.C.E. Available evidence indicates that this was an advanced civilization. For example, art from this period is quite sophisticated, even according to modern standards. This dynasty ended with the invasion by mo...

Np Reiteration in Chinese Texts

The present study attempts to give a cognitive account of the use of anaphoric lexical reiteration (i.e., same NP repetition, alternative NPs, pronouns, and zero anaphora) in staging the different participants in Chinese texts. It is postulated that the alternation among NP reinteration forms in referent tracking is largely triggered by two major mechanisms: The Accessibility Condition (AC) and...

Classifying Chinese Texts in Two Steps

This paper proposes a two-step method for Chinese text categorization (TC). In the first step, a Naïve Bayesian classifier is used to fix the fuzzy area between two categories, and, in the second step, the classifier with more subtle and powerful features is used to deal with documents in the fuzzy area, which are thought of being unreliable in the first step. The preliminary experiment validat...