Presentations
- Biswas, A. & Ai, H. (2024). Militant movement or Anti-misogynistic? A corpus-based and CDA driven investigation of feminism in newspapers [Paper presentation]. The American Association for Applied Linguistics 2024 Conference. Houston, TX. March 16-19.
- Ma, F., Ai, H., Xiao, T., & Guo, T. (2024). Second language learners’ intuitions of idioms: Evidence from learners from different first language backgrounds [Poster presentation]. The American Association for Applied Linguistics 2024 Conference. Houston, TX. March 16-19.
- Ai, H., & Lu, X. (2023). A data-driven and graduated approach to providing corrective feedback on verb-noun collocation in college-level second language writing. Invited Colloquium on Expanding theoretical and methodological approaches to data-driven learning: Moving forward with research and pedagogy, The American Association for Applied Linguistics 2023 Conference. Portland, OR. March 18-21.
- Ai, H. & Ma, F. (2022, March 19-22). The relationship of lexical complexity to the quality of L2 Chinese learners’ writing samples [Paper presentation]. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference 2022. Pittsburg, PA. https://www.aaal.org/events/2022-aaal-conference
- Ma, F., Ai, H., Guo, T., & Xiao, T. (2022, March 19-22). Perception of idioms in accented second language speech: Does the speaker’s face matter? [Paper presentation] American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference 2022. Pittsburg, PA. https://www.aaal.org/events/2022-aaal-conference
- Ai, H. (2021, May 28-30). Automated measurement of lexical complexity in Chinese with WeCLECA [Paper presentation]. The 11th International Conference and Workshops on Technology and Chinese Language Teaching. Virtual Conference: Yale University. http://www.tclt.us/tclt11/
- Ma, F., Ai, H., Guo, T., Xiao, T., & Pae, H. (2021, March, 20-23). The role of speaker’s face during accented second language speech perception [Paper presentation]. American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference 2021. Virtual Conference. https://www.aaal.org/2021-save-the-date
- Xia, D., Ai, H., & Luo, X. (2019, September 20-22). Lexical bundles in authentic and classroom business letters. Second Language Research Forum (SLRF-19). Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. https://slrf2019.sls.msu.edu/
- Reynolds, R., Cotos, E., Ai, H., Sowmy S. (2018, May). A corpus-driven automated approach to identifying, extracting, and correcting instances of verb–noun miscollocation in L2 writing samples. In R. Reynolds (Chair), Automatic Analysis of Complexity/Accuracy/Fluency. Symposium conducted at the meeting of Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO-2018), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL.
- Ai, H., & Ma, F. (2017). A corpus-based dynamic approach to providing corrective feedback in L2 writing: A focus on verb-noun collocations [Paper presentation]. Second Language Research Forum 2017 Conference. Columbus, OH. October 12-15.
- Ma, F., Ai, H., Xiao, T, & Guo, Taomei. (2017). Juggling non-linguistic and linguistic cues when listening to words in a second language [Paper presentation]. Second Language Research Forum 2017 Conference. Columbus, OH. October 12-15.
- Ai, H., & Ma, F. (2016). Creating a 10-million-word English-Chinese parallel corpus [Paper presentation]. The American Association for Applied Linguistics 2016 Conference. Orlando, FL. April 9-12.
- Lu, X., & Ai, H. (2013). Syntactic complexity in college-level English writing: Differences among writers with diverse L1 backgrounds. Colloquium on “New Developments in the Study of L2 Complexity” at the American Association for Applied Linguistics 2013 Conference (AAAL-13). Dallas, TX. March 16-19.
- Doran, M., Jadlocki, M., & Ai, H. (2013). Domain-centered analysis of ITA language use [Paper presentation]. The American Association for Applied Linguistics 2013 Conference (AAAL-13). Dallas, TX. March 16-19.
- Ai, H., & Lu, X. (2013). Automatic measurement of lexical complexity in Mandarin Chinese [Paper presentation]. Conference for the American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL-13). San Diego, CA. January 18-20.
- Ai, H., & Lu, X.. (2012). Promoting L2 Chinese development with intelligent computer-assisted language learning [Paper presentation]. The 31st Second Language Research Forum (SLRF-12). Pittsburgh, PA. October 18-21.
- Ai, H., & Lu, X. (2011). A corpus-informed web-based Chinese ICALL system [Paper presentation]. Conference for the American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL 2011). Atlanta, GA. October 7-9.
- Ai, H., & Ma, F. (2011). Metonymic and metaphoric extensions of tou ‘head’ in Mandarin Chinese: A corpus-based study [ Paper presentation]. Alabama Symposium on Exploring the Boundaries and Applications of Corpus Linguistics. Tuscaloosa, AL. April 15-17.
- Ai, H., & Lu, X. (2011). “Well, you know, it’s like”: A corpus-based study of the use of pragmatic markers by EFL speakers [Paper presentation]. The American Association for Applied Linguistics 2011 Conference. Chicago, IL. March 26-29.
- Ai, H., & Lu, X. (2010). A web-based system for automatic measurement of lexical complexity [Paper presentation]. The Annual Symposium of the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO-10). Amherst, MA. June 8-12.