Construction of NER Model in Ancient Chinese: Solution of EvaHan 2025 Challenge

Yi Lu, Minyi Lei


Abstract
This paper introduces the system submit-ted for EvaHan 2025, focusing on the Named Entity Recognition (NER) task for ancient Chinese texts. Our solution is built upon two specified pre-trained BERT models, namely GujiRoBERTa_jian_fan and GujiRoBERTa_fan, and further en-hanced by a deep BiLSTM network with a Conditional Random Field (CRF) decod-ing layer. Extensive experiments on three test dataset splits demonstrate that our system’s performance, 84.58% F1 in the closed-modality track and 82.78% F1 in the open-modality track, significantly out-performs the official baseline, achieving no-table improvements in F1 score.
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2025.alp-1.20
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Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Ancient Language Processing
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May
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2025
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The Albuquerque Convention Center, Laguna
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Adam Anderson, Shai Gordin, Bin Li, Yudong Liu, Marco C. Passarotti, Rachele Sprugnoli
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165–169
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Yi Lu and Minyi Lei. 2025. Construction of NER Model in Ancient Chinese: Solution of EvaHan 2025 Challenge. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Ancient Language Processing, pages 165–169, The Albuquerque Convention Center, Laguna. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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