Abstract

DE SCHRYVER, Gilles-Maurice. Out-of-the-Box GPTs for Lexicography. Lexikos [online]. 2025, vol.35, n.2, pp.362-396. ISSN 2224-0039.  https://doi.org/10.5788/35-2-2103.

A detailed analysis is offered of how ChatGPT-3.5 has treated the world's languages for lexicographic purposes, starting with hyper-visible English, moving to semi-visible Portuguese, and ending with low-visible Bantu languages. Case studies for the latter group are region-visible Swahili, nation-visible Xhosa and local-visible Lusoga. This impact-based scale is reflected in the uptake of GenAI technology for lexicography. The results of using out-of-the-box ChatGPT-3.5 are fantastic for English, fake for Portuguese, and simply fail for the Bantu languages. But there is a way out, and the seeds for that are sown in this article.

Keywords : Generative Artificial Intelligence (GENAI); Large Language Models (LLMS); Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT); Out-of-the-box GPTS; Lexicography; Dictionaries; Lexicographers; English; Portuguese; Bantu; Swahili; Xhosa; Lusoga; Bantu.

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