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Callie Vaughn is a Masters student in the Language Technologies Institute, where she works with Prof. Alan W. Black in conjunction with Prof. Cassell. She is currently helping with the Alex project, which focuses on a virtual peer that speaks both African American Vernacular English and Mainstream American English. Her main contribution is developing an automatic dialect measurement system to compute the strength of a child’s AAVE and MAE in real time. Her research interests include cognitive and computational linguistics, minority language issues, and speech processing.