Using ChatGPT as a CAT tool in Easy Language translation
Silvana Deilen Sergio Hernández Garrido Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski Christiane Maaß
This study sets out to investigate the feasibility of using ChatGPT to
translate citizen-oriented administrative texts into German Easy Language, a
simplified, controlled 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.