Using ChatGPT as a CAT tool in Easy Language translation
This addresses translation accessibility for people with reading impairments, but it is incremental as it builds on existing CAT tools and language simplification efforts.
The study investigated using ChatGPT to translate administrative texts into German Easy Language for people with reading impairments, finding that while the generated texts were easier than standard ones, they did not fully meet Easy Language standards and sometimes had incorrect content.
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.