Towards Augmenting Lexical Resources for Slang and African American English (2024)

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[Towards Augmenting Lexical Resources for Slang and African American English](https://aclanthology.org/2020.vardial-1.15) (Hwang et al., VarDial 2020)

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• Alyssa Hwang, William R. Frey, and Kathleen McKeown. 2020. Towards Augmenting Lexical Resources for Slang and African American English. In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, pages 160–172, Barcelona, Spain (Online). International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL).