African American English
PulseAugur coverage of African American English — every cluster mentioning African American English across labs, papers, and developer communities, ranked by signal.
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LLMs rewrite African American English to Standard American English, new study finds
A new research paper details how large language models (LLMs) systematically alter African American English (AAE) into Standard American English (SAE), effectively rewriting the dialect. The study introduces a framework…
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Speech models encode African American English consonant cluster reduction
Researchers have investigated how speech models like wav2vec 2.0 and Whisper represent consonant cluster reduction (CCR) in African American English (AAE). The study found that both models can accurately distinguish bet…
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AI toxicity models show bias against African-American English
A new research paper introduces an interactive tool designed to demonstrate dialectal bias in AI toxicity models. The study found that a widely used toxicity model scored African-American English text as significantly m…