It is equally important to get training data in the appropriate dialect or variety, especially when processing social media posts or spoken transcripts. For example some tweets will use features of African American Language (AAL)-the name for the many variations of language used in African American communities (King, 2020) . Such features include words like finna-an auxiliary verb that marks immediate future tense -that don't occur in other varieties, or spellings like den for then, in tweets like this one (Blodgett and O'Connor, 2017):