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Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary — HN submission

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:32:43 GMT

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Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary — mentioned by 2025codecracker

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:57:51 GMT

It used to be em dashes. And those really obvious words like „delve into“ I remember there was even a story about those words. EDIT: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07016

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Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary — mentioned by wietze

Mon, 12 Aug 2024 15:42:19 GMT

Although "eager" isn't called out, a recent study of academic publications shows that the use of LLMs can be measured through word frequency analysis [1], finding certain words are disproportionally represented: > We study vocabulary changes in 14 million PubMed abstracts from 2010–2024, and show how the appearance of LLMs led to an abrupt increase in the frequency of certain style words. 1: https://arxiv.org/html/2406.07016v1

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Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary — mentioned by a_bonobo

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 12:55:10 GMT

There is some circumstantial evidence that the word 'delves' implies that ChatGPT wrote it. Some evidence here: https://arxiv.org/html/2406.07016v2 >Less common words with strong excess usage included delves (=28.0), showcasing (=10.2) and underscores (=10.9), together with their grammatical inflections (Figure 2a). But of course, that isn't a smoking gun, it might just be coincidence. The linked arxiv paper itself uses 'delves', probably tongue-in-cheek :)

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Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary — HN submission

Sat, 22 Jun 2024 23:18:29 GMT

Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary

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Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary — HN submission

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:18:55 GMT

Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary

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