Papers by Michael Madaio
Understanding the Impacts of Language Technologies’ Performance Disparities on African American Language Speakers (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Previous work has examined performance disparities between AAL speakers and White Mainstream English speakers . but, this work has not sought to understand the impacts of these disparities on AAL speaker. |
| Approach: | They examine the experiences of African American Language (AAL) speakers when using language technologies. |
| Outcome: | The authors interview 19 AAL speakers to understand performance disparities . they find that speakers often undertake invisible labor to successfully use language technologies . |