Assessing Authenticity in Media Englishes and the Englishes of Popular Culture

CCAE: A Corpus of Chinese-based Asian Englishes

Language models have been foundations in various scenarios of NLP applications, but it has not been well applied in language variety studies, even for the most popular language like English. This paper represents one of …

AI systems and the reproduction of (standard) language ideologies in World Englishes

The rapid growth of large language models (LLMs) has resurrected age-old questions in sociolinguistics and world Englishes, such as who decides what counts as legitimate English, whose English is suspect etc. This paper …

The grammar and semantics of disjuncts in World Englishes

Mind Your Inflections! Improving NLP for Non-Standard Englishes with Base-Inflection Encoding

Inflectional variation is a common feature of World Englishes such as Colloquial Singapore English and African American Vernacular English. Although comprehension by human readers is usually unimpaired by non-standard in…

Generative AI and linguistic diversity in academic writing and publishing: Perspectives from World Englishes

The rise of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in academic writing and publishing (AWP) raises questions about linguistic inclusivity and the legitimacy of diverse Englishes in global scholarly communication. Thi…