AC-EVAL: Evaluating Ancient Chinese Language Understanding in Large Language Models (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | AC-EVAL is a benchmark designed to assess the advanced knowledge and reasoning capabilities of LLMs within the context of ancient Chinese. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to assess the advanced knowledge and reasoning capabilities of LLMs in ancient Chinese. |
| Outcome: | AC-EVAL aims to assess the comprehension of ancient Chinese texts . the benchmark covers 13 tasks covering historical facts, geography, social customs, art, philosophy, classical poetry and prose. |
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