ChatGPT, what is a 'Glasanwalt'? - Linguistic strategies in a large language model's interpretation of novel compounds
- This study presents a large language model, GPT-4o, with a dataset of artificial German noun-noun compounds that consist of two simplex noun constituents, each associated with a typical interpretation pattern. The task is to derive plausible interpretations. We find that GPT-4o performed very well, displaying stable compositional reasoning strategies. As expected from linguistic literature, typical patterns of the constituents were clearly preferred, with a tendency to favor patterns typical for the head constituent.
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| Author: | Annelen BrunnerORCiDGND, Anna PohleORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-131614 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1145/3672608.3707868 |
| ISBN: | 979-8-4007-0629-5 |
| Parent Title (English): | SAC '25: Proceedings of the 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, 31 March 2025- 4 April 2025 |
| Publisher: | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Place of publication: | New York |
| Editor: | Jiman Hong, Sebastiano Battiato, Christian Esposito |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2025 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2025/05/22 |
| Publishing Institution: | Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| Tag: | Glasanwalt Compositional semantics; Compounding; German; Interpretation patterns; Large language models |
| GND Keyword: | ChatGPT; Deutsch; Großes Sprachmodell; Kompositum |
| First Page: | 1012 |
| Last Page: | 1013 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Computerlinguistik |
| Program areas: | Lexik |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY-ND - Namensnennung - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |