Previous work has shown that non-AAVE speakers often fail to demonstrate comprehension of AAVE speech, and we acknowledge that such misunderstandings may influence the intent-equivalence of our dataset (Jones et al., 2019).
to determine the semantic validity of the translations, we asked annotators who selfidentified as native AAVE speakers and/or codeswitchers to verify whether translated SAE phrases preserved the meaning of original AAVE phrases.