Feasibility study for customer-proposed alternative annotation workflow; influenced company’s later commercial marker-based detection system.
Read the Full Paper (PDF)In my paper, The Influence of Discourse Topic on the Use of Anglicisms by German University Students, I wanted to see exactly how and when young Germans look to English words during casual conversations. By analyzing spoken data from university students, I found that the topic of conversation dictates everything. While everyday topics lean heavily on traditional German, switching the subject to technology, social media, or university life brings a massive wave of English loanwords. The paper dives into why this happens—looking at whether students use English because a German word doesn't exist, or simply because the English version "feels" more natural in a digital world.
Read the Full Paper (PDF)In my recent paper, Cross-Lingual Factual Consistency of GPT-4o-mini, I tested whether LLMs provide the same answers to factual questions regardless of the language used. Using 104 benchmark questions , I discovered a massive gap: the model is three times more accurate in English than in Korean , often hiding knowledge in Korean that it easily reveals in English. I also took a deep dive into evaluation metrics, proving that automated systems heavily struggle to measure true consistency when dealing with different writing systems (like Latin vs. Hangul scripts).
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