ChatGPT: Detection of Spanish Terms Based on False Friends

Amal Haddad Haddad, Damith Premasiri


Abstract
One of the common errors which translators commit when transferring terms from one lan- guage into another is erroneously coining terms which are based on a false friend mistake due to the similarity between lexical units forming part of terms. In this case-study, we use Chat- GPT to automatically detect terms in Spanish which may be coined based on a false friend relation. To carry out this study, we imple- mented two experiments with GPT and com- pared the results. In the first, we prompted GPT to produce a list of twenty terms in Span- ish extracted from the UN discourse, which are possibly based on false friend relation, and its English equivalents and analysed the veracity of the results. In the second experiment, we used an aligned corpus to further study the ca- pabilities of the Language Model on detecting false friends in English and Spanish Text. Some results were significant for future terminologi- cal studies.
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Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2024)
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2024
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Amal Haddad Haddad and Damith Premasiri. 2024. ChatGPT: Detection of Spanish Terms Based on False Friends. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2024), pages 227–240, Sofia, Bulgaria. Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
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