无需语言先验,自动解析象形文字笔画结构
Enabling Stroke-Level Structural Analysis of Hieroglyphic Scripts without Language-Specific Priors
- 将字符位图转为标准化坐标系下的线段表示
- 在多种古文字上实现笔画级结构识别,无需人工标注
- 适合研究古文字、跨语言比较与符号学分析
象形文字作为表意文字系统,其内部结构蕴含丰富的语义与文化信息。然而,当前主流大语言模型(LLMs)和多模态大语言模型(MLLMs)通常对这类结构信息视而不见:前者将字符视为文本标记,后者仅将其当作原始像素网格,均无法建模字符笔画的内在逻辑。现有结构分析方法往往依赖特定文字体系且耗时费力。本文提出一种通用可扩展的框架——象形文字笔画分析器(HieroSA),使MLLM能从字符位图中自动提取笔画级结构,无需人工设计数据。该方法将现代表意文字与古代象形文字的图像转换为标准化坐标空间中的显式线段表示,支持跨语言泛化。大量实验表明,HieroSA有效捕捉字符内部结构与语义,无需语言特异性先验。结果验证了其作为图形文字学分析工具的潜力,有助于更深入理解象形文字系统。代码见 https://github.com/THUNLP-MT/HieroSA。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Hieroglyphs, as logographic writing systems, encode rich semantic and cultural information within their internal structural composition. Yet, current advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) usually remain structurally blind to this information. LLMs process characters as textual tokens, while MLLMs additionally view them as raw pixel grids. Both fall short to model the underlying logic of character strokes. Furthermore, existing structural analysis methods are often script-specific and labor-intensive. In this paper, we propose Hieroglyphic Stroke Analyzer (HieroSA), a novel and generalizable framework that enables MLLMs to automatically derive stroke-level structures from character bitmaps without handcrafted data. It transforms modern logographic and ancient hieroglyphs character images into explicit, interpretable line-segment representations in a normalized coordinate space, allowing for cross-lingual generalization. Extensive experiments demonstrate that HieroSA effectively captures character-internal structures and semantics, bypassing the need for language-specific priors. Experimental results highlight the potential of our work as a graphematics analysis tool for a deeper understanding of hieroglyphic scripts. View our code at https://github.com/THUNLP-MT/HieroSA.
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