Using ChatGPT as a CAT tool in Easy Language translation

Silvana Deilen, Sergio Hernández Garrido, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Christiane Maaß


Abstract
This study sets out to investigate the feasibility of using ChatGPT to translate citizen-oriented administrative texts into German Easy Language, a simplified, rule-based language variety that is adapted to the needs of people with reading impairments. We use ChatGPT to translate selected texts from websites of German public authorities using two strategies, i.e. linguistic and holistic. We analyse the quality of the generated texts based on different criteria, such as correctness, readability, and syntactic complexity. The results indicated that the generated texts are easier than the standard texts, but that they still do not fully meet the established Easy Language standards. Additionally, the content is not always rendered correctly.
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2023.tsar-1.1
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Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability
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September
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2023
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Varna, Bulgaria
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Sanja Štajner, Horacio Saggio, Matthew Shardlow, Fernando Alva-Manchego
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TSAR | WS
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INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria
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1–10
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Silvana Deilen, Sergio Hernández Garrido, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, and Christiane Maaß. 2023. Using ChatGPT as a CAT tool in Easy Language translation. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability, pages 1–10, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria.
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