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Publications

Organized by research area, newest first within each area.

* Corresponding author · † Equal contribution

20 publications

Second Language Acquisition & Quantitative Linguistics 08

Understanding learner language as a developing system: syntactic complexity, dependency distributions, valency, and networks.

2026

Frontiers in Second Language Acquisition Research from a Quantitative Linguistics Perspective

Xuelin Wang, Yuxin Hao

Modern Foreign Languages, 49(5), 691–699

In Chinese

2024

How Syntactic Complexity Indices Predict Chinese L2 Writing Quality: An Analysis of Unified Dependency Syntactically-annotated Corpus

Yuxin Hao, Xuelin Wang, Shuai Bin, Qihao Yang, Haitao Liu

Assessing Writing, 61, 100847

2023

A Probability Distribution of Dependencies in Interlanguage

Yuxin Hao, Xuelin Wang, Shuai Bin, Haitao Liu

Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

2022

Dependency Distance and Its Probability Distribution: Are They the Universals for Measuring Second Language Learners’ Language Proficiency?

Yuxin Hao, Xuelin Wang, Yanni Lin

Journal of Quantitative Linguistics

First published online in 2021

2022

Understanding Development and Proficiency in Writing: Quantitative Corpus Linguistic Approaches — Book Review

Xuelin Wang, Tsy Yih

Journal of Second Language Writing, 56, 100875

2021

Syntactic Networks of Interlanguage Across L2 Modalities and Proficiency Levels

Yuxin Hao, Xuelin Wang, Meng Wu, Haitao Liu

Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 643120

2021

Typological Characteristics of Interlanguage: Across Native Language Types and L2 Proficiency Levels

Yuxin Hao, Xuelin Wang, Qi Yu

Lingua, 261, 103085

2021

Development of Chinese Interlanguage’s Verbal Valence Based on a Syntactically-annotated Corpus

Yuxin Hao, Xuelin Wang, Haitao Liu

Applied Linguistics, 2021(1), 29–41

In Chinese · Reprinted in Renmin University’s reprint series

Mandarin Chinese Varieties 01

Exploring shared patterns and regional variation in Mandarin Chinese, with a focus on Southeast Asia.

2025

Beyond Commonalities: A Quantitative Perspective on Syntactic Features across Mandarin Chinese Varieties

Xuelin Wang, Shuai Bin, Iris Chen, Yuxin Hao

Journal of Quantitative Linguistics

Quantitative Stylistics 03

Measuring literary inheritance, individual expression, humor, and variation across genres.

2026

A Stylometric Analysis of Chinese Literary Inheritance and Divergence: Evidence from Shen Congwen and Wang Zengqi

Jie Bai, Xuelin Wang*

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

2026

A Quantitative Study of Multidimensional Linguistic Features of Chinese Humor: Evidence from Xiangsheng Texts

Yongsheng Chen, Xuelin Wang*

International Journal of Chinese Language Teaching, 7(3), 101–113

In Chinese · English title translated

2024

Investigating Linguistic Variation in Chinese Podcasts: A Quantitative Stylistic Perspective

Jie Bai, Xuelin Wang*

International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP), 275–280

AI for Language Education 03

Connecting linguistic evidence with large language models for Chinese L2 learning, writing assessment, and feedback.

2026

LAWE-CL2: Multi-agent LLM-based Automated Writing Evaluation System Integrating Linguistic Features with Fine-tuning for Chinese L2 Writing Assessment

Xuelin Wang, Qihao Yang, Yuxin Hao, Zhijun Wang, Sijia Guo

Assessing Writing, 101051

2026

HSKBenchmark: Modeling and Benchmarking Chinese Second Language Acquisition in Large Language Models through Curriculum Tuning

Qihao Yang†, Xuelin Wang†, Jiale Chen, Xuelian Dong, Yuxin Hao, Tianyong Hao

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026)

2023

ChatGPT Empowers the Intelligent Development of International Chinese Language Education

Yuxin Hao, Xuelin Wang

Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies, 2023(4)

In Chinese · English title translated · Website links to the author’s publication record

Computational Linguistics & Multimodal Language 05

Studying meaning across languages and modalities through language models and computational methods.

2024

PolCLIP: A Unified Image-Text Word Sense Disambiguation Model via Generating Multimodal Complementary Representations

Qihao Yang, Yong Li, Xuelin Wang, Fu Lee Wang, Tianyong Hao

Proceedings of ACL 2024 (Long Papers)

2024

FigCLIP: A Generative Multimodal Model with Bidirectional Cross-attention for Understanding Figurative Language via Visual Entailment

Qihao Yang, Xuelin Wang*

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Figurative Language Processing

2024

MTA: A Lightweight Multilingual Text Alignment Model for Cross-Language Visual Word Sense Disambiguation

Qihao Yang, Xuelin Wang, Yong Li, Lap-Kei Lee, Fu Lee Wang, Tianyong Hao

IEEE ICASSP 2024, 12166–12170

2023

LingX at ROCLING 2023 MultiNER-Health Task: Intelligent Capture of Chinese Medical Named Entities by LLMs

Xuelin Wang, Qihao Yang

Proceedings of ROCLING 2023, 350–358

2023

TAM of SCNU at SemEval-2023 Task 1: FCLL: A Fine-grained Contrastive Language-image Learning Model for Cross-language Visual Word Sense Disambiguation

Qihao Yang, Yong Li, Xuelin Wang, Shunhao Li, Tianyong Hao

Proceedings of SemEval 2023, 506–511