Better to Ask in English: Cross-Lingual Evaluation of Large Language Models for Healthcare Queries · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2310.13132/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTBetter to Ask in English: Cross-Lingual Evaluation of Large Language Models for Healthcare Queries — mentioned by numpad0https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39732878urn:hackerpapers:mention:2310.13132:39732878Sun, 17 Mar 2024 08:34:45 GMT<p>Basically always worse in languages other than English. Not sure if it&#x27;s just from volume of dataset or if it has to do with dataset quality, or the GPT architecture is inherently English-centric, but LLMs don&#x27;t have like, a universal subconscious with superficial English frontend wrapping UG, like such that would support !(sapir-whorf). LLMs so far are kind of English-based thinking machine(if we were to recognize their apparent behavior as &quot;thinking&quot;). Below is just cherry-picked search results, selected largely by whether last few lines in the abstracts support my narrative, but I mean…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2310.13132/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CL