Language and linguistics on trial: Hearing Rachel Jeantel (and other vernacular speakers) in the courtroom and beyond

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Language (Technology) is Power: A Critical Survey of “Bias” in NLP (2020, background): “, 1998; Green, 2002), in addition to ample evidence of its speakers’ linguistic adroitness (e.g., Alim, 2004; Rickford and King, 2016).”
Data Governance in the Age of Large-Scale Data-Driven Language Technology (2022, background): “To this effect, we should be cognizant of the existing linguistic discrimination present in our societies [118] and be”
It’s Morphin’ Time! Combating Linguistic Discrimination with Inflectional Perturbations (2020, background): “This could take the form of either failing to understand these speakers (Rickford and King, 2016; Tatman, 2017), or misinterpreting them.”
Whose Language Counts as High Quality? Measuring Language Ideologies in Text Data Selection (2022, background): “An ideology that promotes the inherent correctness, clarity, and objectivity of certain language varieties over others is a mechanism for linguistic discrimination (Craft et al., 2020; Gal, 2016; MacSwan, 2020; Rickford and King, 2016).”