Xiaofei Lu Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics Department of Applied Linguistics The Pennsylvania State University 301 Sparks Building University Park, PA 16802 Tel: (814) 865-4692 Fax: (814) 865-7944 Email: XXL13 at psu dot edu Curriculum Vitae

Education

• PhD, Linguistics, The Ohio State University, 2006
• MA, English Language, National University of Singapore, 2002
• BA, English, Nankai University, 1997

Research

• Computational Linguistics: Combining linguistic knowledge with machine learning methods for natural language processing
• Corpus Linguistics: Annotation, processing and analysis of native and learner corpora
• ICALL: Intelligent computer-assisted language learning

Publications

• Lu, Xiaofei (2008). Automatic measurement of syntactic complexity using the revised developmental level scale. In Proceedings of the 21st International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-08), pp. 153-158. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.
• Lu, Xiaofei (2008). Improving part-of-speech guessing of Chinese unknown words using hybrid models. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 13(2):169-193.
• Lu, Xiaofei (2008). Hybrid models for sense guessing of Chinese unknown words. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 13(1):99-128.
• Lu, Xiaofei (2007). A hybrid model for Chinese word segmentation. LDV Forum: GLDV-Journal for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, 22(1):71-88.
• List of publications

Grants

• Rereading our past: The cognitive demands of reading and reading comprehension, 1890-2005. Awarded $468,750 for 3/1/2008-2/28/2011 by the Spencer Foundation. (Role: Investigator, grant co-author)

Teaching

• APLNG 597C: Statistical Analysis of Qualitative and Corpus Data (Spring 08)
• APLNG 583: Language Testing (Spring 08)
• List of coures taught

Links

• Bookmarks for Corpus-Based Linguists
• Computational Linguistics Conferences
• ACL Anthology
• Linguist List