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Record W2972773669 · doi:10.1017/9781316827437.030

Missionary Traditions in East Asia

2019· book-chapter· en· W2972773669 on OpenAlexaff
Otto Zwartjes

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2019
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicChinese history and philosophy
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVietnameseChinaEast AsiaLexicographyHistoryAsian studiesAncient historyGeographyLinguisticsPhilosophyArchaeology

Abstract

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East Asia, which for our purposes includes the Philippines, Vietnam, Japan, and China, is not an area defined by a uniform culture. Before Christian missionaries arrived there in the sixteenth century, it was the home to the long and complex Chinese lexicographical tradition, and to those of what may be called the Chinese periphery; these are discussed from their beginnings to 1700 or 1800 in Chapters 3, 6, and 10. These older traditions continued, variously modified, after contact with the new traditions of missionary lexicography: for that of Chinese, see Chapter 15, and for those of Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, see Chapter 16. A result was that missionary lexicographers in East Asia, unlike their counterparts in the Americas, Africa, and Australasia, could benefit from existing educational systems and methods, particularly of teaching Japanese and Chinese. So, many dictionaries produced by missionaries in East Asia share a distinctive set of features. Of course, some basic features of European origin were shared by all missionary dictionaries, but generally the works in Asia form a highly diverse, but coherent, group.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.017

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.004
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.044
GPT teacher head0.226
Teacher spread0.182 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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