@inproceedings{porwal-etal-2025-analysis,
    title = "Analysis of {LLM} as a grammatical feature tagger for {A}frican {A}merican {E}nglish",
    author = "Porwal, Rahul  and
      Rozet, Alice  and
      Gowda, Jotsna  and
      Houck, Pryce  and
      Tang, Kevin  and
      Moeller, Sarah",
    editor = "Chiruzzo, Luis  and
      Ritter, Alan  and
      Wang, Lu",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025",
    month = apr,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Albuquerque, New Mexico",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2025.findings-naacl.431/",
    pages = "7744--7756",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-195-7",
    abstract = "African American English (AAE) presents unique challenges in natural language processing (NLP) This research systematically compares the performance of available NLP models{---}rule-based, transformer-based, and large language models (LLMs){---}capable of identifying key grammatical features of AAE, namely Habitual Be and Multiple Negation. These features were selected for their distinct grammatical complexity and frequency of occurrence. The evaluation involved sentence-level binary classification tasks, using both zero-shot and few-shot strategies. The analysis reveals that while LLMs show promise compared to the baseline, they are influenced by biases such as recency and unrelated features in the text such as formality. This study highlights the necessity for improved model training and architectural adjustments to better accommodate AAE{'}s unique linguistic characteristics. Data and code are available."
}