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Can ChatGPT Really Understand Modern Chinese Poetry?

Shanshan Wang, Derek F. Wong, Jingming Yao, Lidia S. Chao

Abstract

ChatGPT has demonstrated remarkable capabilities on both poetry generation and translation, yet its ability to truly understand poetry remains unexplored. Previous poetry-related work merely analyzed experimental outcomes without addressing fundamental issues of comprehension. This paper introduces a comprehensive framework for evaluating ChatGPT's understanding of modern poetry. We collaborated with professional poets to evaluate ChatGPT's interpretation of modern Chinese poems by different poets along multiple dimensions. Evaluation results show that ChatGPT's interpretations align with the original poets' intents in over 73% of the cases. However, its understanding in certain dimensions, particularly in capturing poeticity, proved to be less satisfactory. These findings highlight the effectiveness and necessity of our proposed framework. This study not only evaluates ChatGPT's ability to understand modern poetry but also establishes a solid foundation for future research on LLMs and their application to poetry-related tasks.

Can ChatGPT Really Understand Modern Chinese Poetry?

Abstract

ChatGPT has demonstrated remarkable capabilities on both poetry generation and translation, yet its ability to truly understand poetry remains unexplored. Previous poetry-related work merely analyzed experimental outcomes without addressing fundamental issues of comprehension. This paper introduces a comprehensive framework for evaluating ChatGPT's understanding of modern poetry. We collaborated with professional poets to evaluate ChatGPT's interpretation of modern Chinese poems by different poets along multiple dimensions. Evaluation results show that ChatGPT's interpretations align with the original poets' intents in over 73% of the cases. However, its understanding in certain dimensions, particularly in capturing poeticity, proved to be less satisfactory. These findings highlight the effectiveness and necessity of our proposed framework. This study not only evaluates ChatGPT's ability to understand modern poetry but also establishes a solid foundation for future research on LLMs and their application to poetry-related tasks.
Paper Structure (23 sections, 2 figures, 6 tables)

This paper contains 23 sections, 2 figures, 6 tables.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Evaluating ChatGPT’s Understanding of Modern Poetry
  3. Identify Dimensions for Understanding Modern Poetry
  4. Design Prompt
  5. ChatGPT Interpret Poetry
  6. Original Poets’ Evaluation
  7. Experiment
  8. Evaluation
  9. Original Poets’ Evaluation
  10. Evaluation Rules
  11. Evaluation Results
  12. LLMs’ Evaluation
  13. Analysis
  14. Human Evaluation
  15. LLMs Evaluation
  16. ...and 8 more sections

Figures (2)

  • Figure 1: The framework for evaluating ChatGPT's understanding of modern poetry.
  • Figure 2: The distribution of evaluation scores for GPT-4’s interpretation of 48 poems.