African American English
A variety of American English with a complete internal grammatical system, spoken by tens of millions of people. It is characterized by grammatical features such as copula deletion and has historically been underrepresented in NLP training data or filtered out as noise.
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Non-standard registers tend to omit function words (such as articles and copulas), making sentences conveying the same meaning literally shorter, and thus appearing simpler under length-guided complexity estimation.
African American English (AAE) has a complete internal grammatical system, with rules for copula deletion (e.g., 'She is tired' rendered as 'She tired'), and has tens of millions of speakers.
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Non-standard registers tend to omit function words (such as articles and copulas), making sentences conveying the same meaning literally shorter, and thus appearing simpler under length-guided complexity estimation.
50%UnverifiedAfrican American English (AAE) has a complete internal grammatical system, with rules for copula deletion (e.g., 'She is tired' rendered as 'She tired'), and has tens of millions of speakers.
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