Xiaofei Lu （陆小飞） Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics Department of Applied Linguistics The Pennsylvania State University 301 Sparks Building University Park, PA 16802 Tel: (814) 865-4692 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: Compilation, annotation, and analysis of native and learner corpora
• ICALL: Intelligent computer-assisted language learning
• Funded research

Publications

• Lu, Xiaofei (forthcoming). The relationship of lexical richness to the quality of ESL learners' oral narratives. The Modern Language Journal. [Lexical Complexity Analyzer]
• Lu, Xiaofei (2011). A corpus-based evaluation of syntactic complexity measures as indices of college-level ESL writers’ language development. TESOL Quarterly, 45(1):36-62.
• Lu, Xiaofei (2010). Automatic analysis of syntactic complexity in second language writing. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 15(4):474-496. [L2 Syntactic Complexity Analyzer]
• Lu, Xiaofei (2009). Automatic measurement of syntactic complexity in child language acquisition. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 14(1):3-28. [D-Level Analyzer]
• 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. Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics, 22(1):71-88.
• List of publications

Teaching

• APLNG 589: Technology in Foreign Language Education: An Overview (Spring 2012)
• APLNG 597B: Seminar in Applied Corpus Linguistics (Spring 2012)
• List of coures taught