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. 2023 Dec 28;9:e48904. doi: 10.2196/48904

Table 2.

Top 20 parts-of-speech comparison between human-written and ChatGPT-generated text in the medical abstract and radiology report data sets.

Category Medical abstract data set Radiology report data set

Human (n=294,700), n (%) ChatGPT (n=1,358,297), n (%) Human (n=263,097), n (%) ChatGPT (n=1,047,319), n (%)
Noun, singular or mass 66,052 (22.4) 315,326 (23.2) 65,678 (25) 265,415 (25.3)
Adjective 45,157 (15.3) 209,179 (15.4) 48,690 (18.5) 196,195 (18.7)
Preposition or subordinating conjunction 42,496 (14.4) 182,029 (13.4) 25,070 (9.5) 96,548 (9.2)
Determiner 25,947 (8.8) 127,371 (9.4) 22,720 (8.6) 106,668 (10.2)
Noun, plural 23,918 (8.1) 122,615 (9) 9511 (3.6) 57,902 (5.5)
Coordinating conjunction 11,292 (3.8) 56,301 (4.1) 7305 (2.8) 41,160 (3.9)
Cardinal digit 10,718 (3.6) 25,053 (1.8) 4132 (1.6) 8881 (0.8)
Verb, past tense 10,613 (3.6) 47,084 (3.5) 3000 (1.1) 8839 (0.8)
Verb, past participle 10,517 (3.6) 44,381 (3.3) 8935 (3.4) 40,067 (3.8)
Proper noun, singular 10,075 (3.4) 51,644 (3.8) 30,463 (11.6) 90,531 (8.6)
Adverb 7311 (2.5) 22,606 (1.7) 6142 (2.3) 14,082 (1.3)
To 4646 (1.6) 26,474 (1.9) 2424 (0.9) 10,533 (1)
Verb, base form 4569 (1.6) 27,916 (2.1) 2527 (1) 8501 (0.8)
Verb, third person singular present 3928 (1.3) 20,371 (1.5) 10,877 (4.1) 40,737 (3.9)
Verb, gerund or present participle 3760 (1.3) 30,265 (2.2) 2492 (0.9) 9304 (0.9)
Verb, nonthird person singular present 3237 (1.1) 13,166 (1) 3950 (1.5) 25,160 (2.4)
Personal pronoun; possessive pronoun 1681 (0.6) 5775 (0.4) a
Modal 1663 (0.6) 6717 (0.5) 970 (0.4) 2023 (0.2)
Adjective, comparative 1311 (0.4) 4724 (0.3) 1401 (0.5) 3114 (0.3)
Wh-determiner 937 (0.3) 2793 (0.2) 655 (0.2) 1257 (0.1)
Existential there 3925 (1.5) 11075 (1.1)

aNot in the top 20 parts-of-speech.