Xiaofei Lu

Xiaofei Lu

Gil Watz Early Career Professor in Language and Linguistics
Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics
Department of Applied Linguistics
The Pennsylvania State University
301 Sparks Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 865-4692
Email: XXL13 at psu dot edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education

PhD, Linguistics, The Ohio State University, 2006
MA (by research), 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 and software downloads

Teaching

APLNG 578: Computational and Statistical Methods for Corpus Analysis (Spring 2013)
APLNG 583: Methods of Language Assessment (Fall 2013)
APLNG 589: Technology in Foreign Language Education: An Overview (Fall 2013)
On sabbatical (and not hosting visitors) in Spring 2014
List of coures taught

Publications

Gamson, David A., Lu, Xiaofei, & Eckert, Sarah Anne (forthcoming). Challenging the research base of the common core state standards: A historical reanalysis of text complexity. Educational Researcher.
Zhang, Xian & Lu, Xiaofei (forthcoming). A longitudinal study of receptive vocabulary breadth knowledge growth and vocabulary fluency development. Applied Linguistics.
Zhang, Jie & Lu, Xiaofei (2013). Variability in Chinese as a Foreign Language Learners' Development of the Chinese Numeral Classifier System. The Modern Language Journal, 97(s1):46-60.
Lu, Xiaofei (2012). The relationship of lexical richness to the quality of ESL learners' oral narratives. The Modern Language Journal, 96(2):190-208. [Lexical Complexity Analyzer]
Thorne, Steve L., Fischer, Ingrid, & Lu, Xiaofei (2012). The semiotic ecology and linguistic complexity of an online game world. ReCall, 24(3):279-301.
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.
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