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Graphilosophy: Graph-Based Digital Humanities Computing with The Four Books

Minh-Thu Do, Quynh-Chau Le-Tran, Duc-Duy Nguyen-Mai, Thien-Trang Nguyen, Khanh-Duy Le, Minh-Triet Tran, Tam V. Nguyen, Trung-Nghia Le

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Published 2026-03-30 · First seen 2026-03-31

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The Four Books have shaped East Asian intellectual traditions, yet their multi-layered interpretive complexity limits their accessibility in the digital age. While traditional bilingual commentaries provide a vital pedagogical bridge, computational frameworks are needed to preserve and explore this wisdom. This paper bridges AI and classical philosophy by introducing Graphilosophy, an ontology-guided, multi-layered knowledge graph framework for modeling and interpreting The Four Books. Integrating natural language processing, multilingual semantic embeddings, and humanistic analysis, the framework transforms a bilingual Chinese-Vietnamese corpus into an interpretively grounded resource. Graphilosophy encodes linguistic, conceptual, and interpretive relationships across interconnected layers, enabling cross-lingual retrieval and AI-assisted reasoning while explicitly preserving scholarly nuance and interpretive plurality. The system also enables non-expert users to trace the evolution of ethical concepts across borders and languages, ensuring that ancient wisdom remains a living resource for modern moral discourse rather than a static relic of the past. Through an interactive interface, users can trace the evolution of ethical concepts across languages, ensuring ancient wisdom remains relevant for modern discourse. A preliminary user study suggests the system's capacity to enhance conceptual understanding and cross-cultural learning. By linking algorithmic representation with ethical inquiry, this research exemplifies how AI can serve as a methodological bridge, accommodating the ambiguity of cultural heritage rather than reducing it to static data. The Source code and data are released at https://github.com/ThuDoMinh1102/confucian-texts-knowledge-graph.

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@article{do2026graphilosophy,
  title = {Graphilosophy: Graph-Based Digital Humanities Computing with The Four Books},
  author = {Minh-Thu Do and Quynh-Chau Le-Tran and Duc-Duy Nguyen-Mai and Thien-Trang Nguyen and Khanh-Duy Le and Minh-Triet Tran and Tam V. Nguyen and Trung-Nghia Le},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {The Four Books have shaped East Asian intellectual traditions, yet their multi-layered interpretive complexity limits their accessibility in the digital age. While traditional bilingual commentaries provide a vital pedagogical bridge, computational frameworks are needed to preserve and explore this wisdom. This paper bridges AI and classical philosophy by introducing Graphilosophy, an ontology-guided, multi-layered knowledge graph framework for modeling and interpreting The Four Books. Integrati},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28755},
  keywords = {cs.CY},
  eprint = {2603.28755},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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