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AI-Linguistica
ISSN 2943-0070 · PUBLIA – SLUB Open Publishing · 41 articles in the index
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AI-driven speech act annotation: accuracy and reproducibility across ChatGPT, LadderWeb and LLaMA
This study evaluates three machine learning systems for annotating pragmatic categories, focusing on cancellations after accepting an invitation. The systems include the supervised model LadderWeb and the pre-trained models ChatGPT-4o and LLaMA-3.2. LadderWeb, built on Apache OpenNLP, was…
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Uncanny Semantics. How AI and Human Authors Use Language Differently in Academic Writing
This study explores the semantic differences between human-written and AI-generated academic texts by applying word embedding techniques to a curated corpus of 325 introductions from linguistic articles. The corpus includes human-authored texts and AI-generated texts produced by six language models…
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ChatGPT as a linguistic informant. A comparison of human and AI-generated translations
In the past sixty years various research methods have been proposed to help the researcher to collect reliable data to which theoretical analyses can be applied. In this paper it is investigated if artificial intelligence (AI)-generated translations of selected excerpts from literary works by…
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Benchmarking AI acceptability and grammaticality in German: A study of ChatGPT and human judgments
The rapid development of large language models has opened new avenues for linguistic research, including areas traditionally reliant on native-speaker intuitions. One such domain is grammaticality and acceptability judgment, where speakers assess whether sentences are structurally well-formed and…
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Marking intersubjectivity in human-written and AI-generated editorials published in "Il Foglio"
In March 2025, the Milan-based broadsheet Il Foglio launched Il Foglio AI, a month-long experiment featuring a daily four-page supplement entirely generated by large language models (LLMs). Owing to the success of the experiment, the project has continued as a weekly feature since April 2025. Each…
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Simulating the Evolution of Grammatical Gender from Latin to Old Occitan
In this article, we present a first approach on simulating the change of gender from Latin to Old Occitan. The reduction of genders in the transition to the Romance languages is one of the most important developments in the nominal system. In order to simulate this language change, we used varied…
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Style hybride d’une chimère.
La présente porte sur l’authentification du style dans les productions textuelles hybrides et propose un état de l’art de la question. Cette notion de style est élusive en soi, grossièrement partagée entre le premier mouvement d’écriture spontané et les ajustements apportés ensuite pour améliorer…
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Habeas Corpus: an exploration of authentic embodiment and ecology in a French contrastive corpus
This article outlines a study in French contrasting human and large language model (LLM) textual production. Participants were composed of undergraduate students at the Université de Lorraine, and OpenAI’s GPT-4o. Both responded to the same prompt: You have been taken hostage by friendly but…
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Perceived Authenticity of Politeness Strategies in Human-Computer Interactions
The present study analyzes the perceived authenticity of human-computer interactions in Spanish, as measured by computer agents’ use of positive politeness strategies. We explore how AI chatbots’ use of initial comments, emojis, and follow-up questions shapes participants’ perceptions of these…
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AI Imitating Individuals
This paper considers language-generating artificial intelligence as a form of human imitation. Focusing on deepfakes that imitate individuals’ appearance and language, the paper examines how supposed deepfakes featuring prominent individuals are discussed on social media and how discourse around…
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Theorising authenticity vis-à-vis, not versus, syntheticity in the age of AI
This article addresses contemporary debates surrounding authenticity in the age of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), where hybrid human-machine productions have given rise to a dual crisis of origin and reception. As GenAI-human co-authored content becomes more ubiquitous, the range of…
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'Halis Sefaradi': critical authenticity and the voice of the first Ladino chatbot 'Estreyika'
As the first Ladino-speaking chatbot intended to support language revitalization, Estreyika inhabits a complex ideological space where authenticity is constructed, contested, and operationalized through cultural, sociolinguistic, and political dynamics anchored in the lived realities of the last…
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Humans vs. machines: can enaction theory help?
This study seeks to contribute to ongoing research on the formal differences between textual corpora produced by humans and those generated by generative artificial intelligences (GenAI). To this end, we draw on enactive theory and apply it to linguistics, conceiving the asymmetrical structural…
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Écrire des textes cliniques simplifiés pour les familles aux urgences pédiatriques avec l’IA générative: tensions entre auctorialité et charge de travail
Cet article analyse l’usage de l’intelligence artificielle générative pour la rédaction de lettres explicatives destinées aux familles dans un service d’urgences pédiatriques, où la volonté de concilier amélioration de l’information aux familles et gain de temps pour les cliniciens se heurte à la…
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Introduction to special issue: The notion of authenticity in hybrid human/AI productions
Introduction to special issue: The notion of authenticity in hybrid human/AI productions
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AI linguistics, quo vadis?
Introduction to Catasso & Scharinger (eds.) (2026): Natural Language and AI
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La storia delle parole per comprendere le cose. Perché l’intelligenza artificiale è detta ‘generativa’?
L’articolo ricostruisce la storia del verbo generare e dell’aggettivo generativo per spiegare come siano entrati nell’àmbito dell’intelligenza artificiale e per interrogarsi sulle possibili conseguenze che questa scelta terminologica ha sulla percezione della tecnologia. Muovendo dai primi…
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Low-resource language
Traditional definitions of language resourcedness fail to capture the structural inequalities embedded in LLMs’ pre-training data. While historical classifications rely heavily on sociopolitical vitality, artifacts, and human resources, a language’s real-world robustness no longer guarantees…
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Validazione e confronto tra semplificazione automatica e semplificazione manuale di testi in italiano istituzionale i fini dell’efficacia comunicativa
L’articolo presenta i risultati di due studi sperimentali messi a punto per la validazione umana della qualità di testi generati con modelli di AI del tipo GPT. In particolare, i testi da validare sono le versioni semplificate di diverse tipologie di documenti di tipo amministrativo scritte in…
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Migliorare la chiarezza dei testi amministrativi con ChatGPT. Il caso della subordinazione sintattica tra criteri morfo-sintattici e criteri informativo-testuali
Questo contributo prende in esame le riscritture semplificate di testi amministrativi italiani prodotte da ChatGPT-4o e ChatGPT-4.5, con particolare attenzione al trattamento della subordinazione sintattica. Il campione analizzato è composto da sei brani amministrativi e dalle rispettive…