Not X, but When: Diagnosing a Mandarin LLM Writing Tic through Contextual Appropriateness

Paper recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-10-15 in cs.CL. Abstract reproduced from arXiv; link to the original below.

Published 2026-10-15 on arXiv · recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-10-16

Category: cs.CL · 自然语言处理 · first seen 2026-10-16

Abstract

Recurring expressions in model-written text are often treated as signatures of machine authorship, yet most of them serve legitimate functions. Whether such an expression is a tic depends on whether the model knows when it is called for. This judgment of appropriateness, central to communicative competence, remains largely unexamined for language models. We study it through the Mandarin corrective

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