The Best Known and Frequently Used Slovene Proverbs According to ChatGPT-4o
Exploring the Potential for an AI-Based Paremiological Minimum
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https://doi.org/10.4312/linguistica.65.1.127-143Keywords:
Slovene paremiology, large language model, GPT-4o, paremiological minimum, paremiological optimumAbstract
The article examines the type of data yielded by the publicly accessible AI model GPT-4o concerning the core of Slovene paremiology—namely, the most widely known and/or most frequently used proverbs. The proverbs identified by the model are compared with data obtained from corpus-based analyses, survey research, and established Slovene paremiographical sources. Drawing on these comparisons, this study outlines the current strengths and limitations of using this AI model in paremiological research and evaluates its potential impact on contemporary proverb studies.
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