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What kind of changes can “AI+Publishing” bring to our reading and learning?

Consider this scenario:

After dinner, the family of elementary school student Noy started reading and studying. Noy's mother was following a historical novel on an online literature app. She saw the name "Daliangzao" in the article, which looked familiar at first glance. She wanted to determine the specific meaning, so she clicked on the word and right-clicked to search. In the blink of an eye, the three definitions of "Daliangzao" in the "Dictionary of Chinese Official Names of Successive Dynasties" appeared on the screen. It turned out that it could be an official name or a title. The definitions from authoritative reference books are indeed concise, comprehensive and reliable. Noy's father took out an old book he had found at the "Taoshule" market a while ago, took a picture of the inner page and uploaded it to the Huidian OCR page, and the recognition was completed within a few seconds. Noy's father and mother came to check it carefully, and were surprised to find that although the inner pages of the original book were a little mottled and blurred, the OCR recognition results were almost error-free. Noi, a fourth-grader, learned a new English text today. She opened the "Shanghai Learning" app, reviewed the text, and clicked on "Spoken English Practice" to have a conversation with AI teacher "Lily" to consolidate what she learned. After learning the course content, she played a piano piece. After the piece was over, the digital person "Dudu" in the "Piano Bus" gave an enthusiastic evaluation report. The high score of 96.4 and the "TOP 3" with a crown on the "Single Ranking" made Noi very happy with the positive feedback and wanted to continue practicing...

These daily reading and learning activities are all filled with the convenience brought by "AI+Publishing". To be precise, this is the new scene of "AI+Century Publishing". In the Century Publishing Hall·Digital Publishing Hall of the Shanghai Book Fair, every reader can truly experience the above scene.

2024 is recognized by the industry as the "first year of artificial intelligence application". Century Publishing Group has kept up with the latest developments in artificial intelligence technology and made comprehensive and prudent considerations - while deepening the digitalization of publishing, it has comprehensively laid out intelligent publishing, empowering digital publishing products and editing and publishing processes with artificial intelligence technology, and a number of achievements were first unveiled at the Shanghai Book Fair. What is described above is the practical application of the iterative upgrades of existing digital publishing products, which involve many scenarios such as daily reading, writing, traditional cultural studies, and primary and secondary education.

At the same time, the Group has made a relatively comprehensive estimate of the content risks that may be brought about by big model technology, ensuring that all digital products are aligned with publishing standards in terms of content and values, allowing users to use them with greater confidence and peace of mind.

For the majority of digital readers and writers using WPS/Word,“Judian Data Open Platform”and newly developed and put into trial stage"Judian Writing Assistant"It is a product worth paying attention to. Judian, which contains nearly 200 kinds of high-quality reference books, has a typical usage mode of "swipe the screen to pick up words, and the meaning of words will appear immediately". In less than four years after its release, it has reached cooperation with more than 50 Internet applications, greatly satisfying the needs of users to check knowledge when using various Internet applications, and realizing the innovation and breakthrough of traditional reference books in modern knowledge services, making high-quality content within reach. The iterative Judian 2.0 version has more powerful functions and wider application scenarios. It has become an authoritative cross-system and cross-platform knowledge retrieval tool trusted by more than 6 million monthly active users. "Judian Writing Assistant" is a plug-in compatible with WPS and Word, providing Judian interpretation search, poetry search (can search for nearly 20,000 poems, lyrics, essays, fu and their annotations and appreciation from the pre-Qin to modern times), semantic search, ancient and modern place name query, chronology conversion and other functions; users can quickly search for the content they want to know through the sidebar without jumping out of the software, so that Judian can "empower writing" in addition to "empowering reading, empowering learning, and empowering search". It is worth mentioning that in order to ensure accuracy and reliability, the search results of Judian Writing Assistant are all from authoritative reference books such as "Cihai", "Da Cihai", and "Chinese Dictionary", which effectively avoids the "illusion" problem of large models, and at the same time handles the difficulty of value alignment, which can well cope with the needs of accurate knowledge and information in academic writing, official document writing, copywriting, and manuscript proofreading, greatly improving the writing efficiency of users.

Traditional culture learners and enthusiasts can experience"Shanggu Huidian·Ancient Books Digital Service Platform"A digital product for organizing and disseminating excellent traditional culture represented by. "Huidian" brings together nearly 1.1 billion words of authoritative ancient book resources, including the "Classic Book Compilation Document Database" and the "China Local Document Database", to realize intelligent services for ancient book content and provide an excellent platform for intelligent research in the field of traditional culture. In terms of reading experience, "Huidian" can achieve accurate picture-text reading, and also includes many functions such as copying text, quoting copying, one-click jump to annotations, word image zooming in/out, personal notes, and query dictionaries. In terms of search function, it leads the industry and provides search solutions such as general search, advanced search, traditional and simplified, variant characters, synonyms, and word-image association; using a distributed, highly scalable ES (abbreviation for Elasticsearch) search engine, combined with a unique search solution, it provides high-speed search capabilities for massive data, and can achieve a search response time of less than 0.5 seconds for tens of billions of words.

Huidian's recently developed ancient book OCR technology is based on high-quality, large-scale standardized annotation data of ancient books, and has carried out targeted training on the original ancient book data. At present, the average recognition accuracy of layout and text is as high as 98%, reaching the domestic leading level. In terms of specific functions, it can realize the comparison of line recognition and character recognition, support layout correction, and column-by-column and word-by-word correction of original text and recognized text. The institutional version of OCR conforms to the management needs of the ancient book sorting project and provides institutional users with more comprehensive and efficient text recognition services, including reminders of easily wrong characters, character clustering functions and text comparison functions: using big data algorithms, easily wrong characters are highlighted during OCR recognition; support aggregation of related character graphs based on recognized characters within the selected text range, and support real-time correction; through similar text screening using artificial intelligence technology, support text comparison and verification of recognition results.

The Digital Publishing Library also showcases the latest achievements in smart education represented by "Shanghai Learning", "100,000 Whys" and "Piano Bus", helping primary and secondary school students and piano learners to learn courses, science and music knowledge more easily and happily.

Shanghai Learning APPFocusing on "smart learning", we have tailored digital textbooks, smart teaching aids, smart reading and other learning solutions for primary and secondary school students to meet personalized learning needs and significantly improve the efficiency of independent learning. This summer, Huxuexi has launched a new AI oral dialogue function, which synchronizes English textbooks, simulates authentic "Oxford accent" questions and timely feedback in real dialogue scenarios, allowing students to speak English more confidently and solve the pain points of English learning, such as lack of language environment and poor listening and speaking skills.

A national science brand familiar to generations"One Hundred Thousand Whys", continue to play the role of popular science education, and will showcase a number of newly designed and developed applications on site: AI native applications such as "Lubao Early Childhood Education Exploration" and "100,000 Whys", which are award-winning projects in the "2024 Language and Intelligent Technology Competition (LIC)" jointly conducted with Baidu, and cases such as "100,000 Whys·Bobo Bear AI Learning Buddy". These applications use multimodal and RAG (search enhancement) and other technical means, based on the content of "100,000 Whys", but are not limited to the questions in the book itself, and flexibly respond to open-ended questions raised by children, and present the answers as accurate and interesting stories with pictures and texts, or even "micro publications", to stimulate children's interest and desire to explore scientific and technological knowledge, and further cultivate children's observation ability, metacognition ability, critical thinking, decision-making judgment, information integration and other thinking abilities.

Piano Bus APPIt combines the authoritative tutorials of Shanghai Music Publishing House with cutting-edge AI technology. It not only adds teaching materials suitable for learners of all ages, including piano tutorials for senior citizens' universities, but also innovatively introduces "black technologies" such as intelligent score recognition, automatic score flipping, and playing evaluation. The lively and cute digital human "Dudu" brings warm encouragement and detailed comments to every piano learner, making piano learning more convenient, practical and fun.

The infinite possibilities brought by "AI+Century Publishing" are available at Century Publishing Hall and Digital Publishing Hall on the second floor of East Hall 1 of Shanghai Exhibition Center. From August 14 to 20, from 9 am to 9 pm (extended to 9:30 pm on weekends), you can explore, experience and discover the endless fun of reading and learning in the AI ​​era.

Summary of the Group's Shanghai Book Fair Activities

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