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Disparidades lingüísticas en el rendimiento de un modelo de lenguaje grande en preguntas dentales en siete idiomas

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  • Chávez Moya, Maikro Osvaldo
  • maikroilv@gmail.com
  • Cabrera, Leodanis Hernández
  • leodanishernandezcabrera1@gmail.com
  • Ramos, Neisy Pérez
  • neisyperezramos@gmail.com

Abstract

Introduction: Large language models answer dental questions, but their accuracy across languages has not been measured. Methods: Sixty dental multiple-choice questions from MedMCQA were translated into Swahili, Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish with a fixed protocol and answered by the DeepSeek model at temperature zero, with English as the reference. Results: Accuracy was 61.7% in English and 61.7% in Portuguese, and it fell to 60.0% in Chinese, 58.3% in Arabic and Spanish, 55.0% in Hindi, and 26.7% in Swahili. The English-to-language gap reached 6.7 percentage points for Hindi and 35.0 points for Swahili. Conclusions: Accuracy held near the English reference in the high-resource European and Asian languages but collapsed in Swahili, so the language disparity in dental question answering is concentrated in the low-resource language rather than spread evenly across languages.

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  • Chávez Moya, Maikro Osvaldo & maikroilv@gmail.com & Cabrera, Leodanis Hernández & leodanishernandezcabrera1@gmail.com & Ramos, Neisy Pérez & neisyperezramos@gmail.com, 2026. "Disparidades lingüísticas en el rendimiento de un modelo de lenguaje grande en preguntas dentales en siete idiomas," SAP Artificial Intelligence in Dentistry, South American Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:cwf:aidart:aid2026158
    DOI: 10.62486/aid2026158
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