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The Interpretation of Korean Possibility Modal -ul-swu-iss by Humans and Large Language Models

  • 간행물
    언어과학 KCI 등재 바로가기
  • 권호(발행년)
    제32권 1호 (2025.02) 바로가기
  • 페이지
    pp.59-79
  • 저자
    Jeonghwa Cho
  • 언어
    영어(ENG)
  • URL
    https://www.earticle.net/Article/A464032

원문정보

초록

영어
This study investigates how the Korean modality expression -ul-swu-iss with -ess attached is interpreted by 54 Korean speakers and three variants of the large language model [LLM] ChatGPT: GPT3.5-turbo, GPT4, and GPT4o. The results show a discrepancy between the way in which humans and LLMs interpret this expression. Human participants demonstrate a clear preference for the uncertain interpretation for -ess-ul-swu-iss and the unactualized interpretation for -ul-swu-iss-ess with the desirability of the event modulating the preference, but none of the models capture this nuanced distinction in meaning. The human results are discussed based on Condoravdi(2002), such that the past perspective in -ul-swu-iss-ess derives the counterfactual implicature from the unactualized result whereas the present perspective in -ess-ul-swu-iss derives the epistemic reading from the speaker’s uncertainty about the result. The results from these LLMs indicate that they are not yet able to interpret these expressions as humans do.

목차

Abstact
1. Introduction
2. Pragmatic Ability of Large Language Models
3. Experiment
3.1. Test Materials
3.2. Participants
3.3. Procedure
3.4. Test in Large Language Models
3.5. Data Analysis
4. Results
4.1. Human Ratings
4.2. Human Versus LLM Ratings
5. Discussion
6. Conclusion
References

저자

  • Jeonghwa Cho [ Hongik University/Assistant Professor ]

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    간행물 정보

    • 간행물
      언어과학 [Journal of Language Sciences]
    • 간기
      계간
    • pISSN
      1225-2522
    • 수록기간
      1994~2025
    • 등재여부
      KCI 등재
    • 십진분류
      KDC 705 DDC 405