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Students’ Voices in the Digital Era: Expectations and Perceptions of Data Literacy Competence Open

Lu Xiao · 2025

As technology reshapes the educational landscape, students’ expectations regarding their teachers’ data literacy competence have become increasingly important in shaping the effectiveness of foreign language education. This study explores …

A Quantitative Study of Artificial Intelligence in Foreign Language Talent Cultivation Open

Lu Xiao · 2025

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in foreign language education is reshaping traditional pedagogical models, offering new opportunities for personalized learning, adaptive assessments, and data-driven instructional strategies…

A Data-Driven Exploration of AI-Enhanced Educational Models Open

Lu Xiao · 2025

The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing pedagogical approaches to foreign language education. This study conducted a 16-week controlled experiment comparing AI-augmented instruction (n=153) with conventiona…

Empowering Educators: A Mixed-Methods Exploration for Data Intelligence Literacy Open

Lu Xiao · 2025

In the era of digital transformation, the development of data intelligence literacy (DIL) among university foreign language teachers is crucial for enhancing the quality and efficiency of language education. This study employs a mixed-meth…

Unraveling the transport behavior of BP and BAs using the Boltzmann transport equation and machine learning methods Open

Yong-Bo Shi, Shuo Cao, Keke Song, Lu Xiao, Ping Qian · 2025

Balancing Innovation and Impact: The Dual Effects of Team Novelty and Hierarchical Structure on Scientific Output in China's State Key Laboratories Open

Xinzhe Li, Lu Xiao · 2025

Study on a Mechanism of Improving MaAPX1 Protein Activity by Mutating Methionine to Lysine Open

Lu Xiao, Guoxiang Jiang, Hongmei Lai, Xiaoyan Duan, Huiling Yan , et al. · 2024

Ascorbate peroxidases (APXs) are key components of the ascorbate–glytathione cycle, which plays an important role in removing excess reactive oxygen species (ROS) in plants. Herein, MaAPX1 was verified as being involved in the ripening and…

Dose adjustment strategy of levetiracetam in pregnant patients with epilepsy: Case report and literature review Open

Renzhu Liu, Lu Xiao, Xiang Liu, Can Xiao · 2024

Rationale: Pregnant patients with epilepsy are prone to preterm delivery, stillbirth, or cesarean section, and their mortality rate is almost 10 times higher than that of normal pregnant women. The potential negative influences of antiepil…

Analysis of Integration Path in English Education and Teaching in Colleges and Universities under the Background of Informatization Open

Lu Xiao · 2024

For colleges and universities, it is imperative to actively respond to the current new teaching mode and to put information technology into English teaching in the new situation. This paper improves the random forest algorithm by using the…

Narrative Persuasion in Social Media: Case Studies of Reviews, News, and Discussions Open

Lu Xiao, Aadil Zikre, Yash Karkhanis · 2024

Analyzing and Optimizing Virtual Reality Classroom Scenarios: A Deep Learning Approach Open

Lin Jiang, Lu Xiao · 2023

Investigating anorectal function using postoperative MRI-based fibrosis score in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer receiving neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy: a two-center study Open

Yuan Yuan, Yue Yu, Yi Sun, Shuai Li, Hai Di Lu , et al. · 2023

The present study showed AFS and PFS derived from postoperative MRI are positively correlated with Wexner score. In addition, the new scoring system was effective in predicting anorectal function in LARC cases administered nCRT.

Online Health Information Wants of Caregivers for Persons With Dementia in Social Media Open

Alison Tang, Jung Kwak, Lu Xiao, Bo Xie, Sucheta Lahiri , et al. · 2023

This study aimed to examine the online information behavior of informal caregivers of persons with dementia (PWDs). We examined caregivers’ posts ( N = 401) in two subgroups on the social media platform Reddit. Content analysis and correla…

Study on Characteristics and Lignification Mechanism of Postharvest Banana Fruit during Chilling Injury Open

Lu Xiao, Xunyuan Jiang, Yicai Deng, Kaihang Xu, Xuewu Duan , et al. · 2023

The banana is prone to chilling injury (CI) at low temperature and showing a series of chilling symptoms, such as peel browning, etc. Lignification is a response to abiotic stress and senescence, which is an important manifestation of frui…

Blockchain Mania Without Bitcoins: Evidence from China Stock Market Open

Lu Xiao, Xiaolin Xu, Weili Xue · 2023

Blockchain Mania without Bitcoins: Evidence from China Stock Market Open

Lu Xiao, Xiaolin Xu, Weili Xue · 2023

Tension Analysis in Survivor Interviews: A Computational Approach Open

Jumayel Islam, Robert E. Mercer, Lu Xiao, Steven High · 2022

This study aims to develop computational techniques to analyze and identify points of tensions in interviews with survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Oral history interviews are a dialogical source composed of questions and answers, pr…

Persuading Others in Different Communication Media: Appeals to Logic, Authority, and Emotion Open

Lu Xiao, Sara E. Burke · 2022

Online Health Information Wants of Caregivers for Persons With Dementia in Social Media Open

Alison Tang, Jung Kwak, Bo Xie, Lu Xiao, Sucheta Lahiri , et al. · 2021

Family caregivers of persons with dementia (PWDs) use social media to obtain and share health information. Yet relatively little is known about the types of information that these caregivers share. We address this gap by analyzing caregive…

Hidden Gems in the Wikipedia Discussions: The Wikipedians’ Rationales Open

Lu Xiao · 2021

This paper presents a series of completed and ongoing studies that are aimed at understanding the role of the Wikipedians’ rationales in the Wikipedia discussions. We define a rationale as one’s justification of her viewpoint and suggestio…

Privacy Preference Inference via Collaborative Filtering Open

Taraneh Khazaei, Lu Xiao, Robert E. Mercer, Atif Khan · 2021

Studies of online social behaviour indicate that users often fail to specify privacy settings that match their privacy behaviour. This issue has caused a dilemma whether to use publicly available data for targeted advertisement and persona…

Neural-based RST Parsing And Analysis In Persuasive Discourse Open

LI Jin-fen, Lu Xiao · 2021

Most of the existing studies of language use in social media content have focused on the surface-level linguistic features (e.g., function words and punctuation marks) and the semantic level aspects (e.g., the topics, sentiment, and emotio…

Author response for "Reasoning in social media: insights from Reddit “Change My View” submissions" Open

Ayşe Öcal, Lu Xiao, Jaihyun Park · 2020

syrapropa at SemEval-2020 Task 11: BERT-based Models Design For Propagandistic Technique and Span Detection Open

LI Jin-fen, Lu Xiao · 2020

This paper describes the BERT-based models proposed for two subtasks in SemEval-2020 Task 11: Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles. We first build the model for Span Identification (SI) based on SpanBERT, and facilitate the …

syrapropa at SemEval-2020 Task 11: BERT-based Models Design for Propagandistic Technique and Span Detection Open

LI Jin-fen, Lu Xiao · 2020

This paper describes the BERT-based models proposed for two subtasks in SemEval-2020 Task 11: Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles. We first build the model for Span Identification (SI) based on SpanBERT, and facilitate the …

Effects of Anonymity on Comment Persuasiveness in Wikipedia Articles for Deletion Discussions Open

Yimin Xiao, Lu Xiao · 2020

It has been shown that anonymity affects various aspects of online communications such as message credibility, the trust among communicators, and the participants’ accountability and reputation. Anonymity influences social interactions in …

Tree Representations in Transition System for RST Parsing Open

LI Jin-fen, Lu Xiao · 2020

The transition-based systems in the past studies propose a series of actions, to build a right-heavy binarized tree for the RST parsing. However, the nodes of the binary-nuclear relations (e.g., Contrast) have the same nuclear type with th…

What's in the Content of Wikipedia's Article for Deletion Discussions? Open

Ali Javanmardi, Lu Xiao · 2019

research-article Share on What's in the Content of Wikipedia's Article for Deletion Discussions? Authors: Ali Javanmardi Department of Computer Science University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada Department of Computer Science Univer…

Imperatives in Past Online Discussions: Another Helpful Source for Community Newcomers? Open

Lu Xiao, Jeffrey V. Nickerson · 2019

Experienced members of online communities use discussion to familiarize newcomers with norms. These members use imperatives, a kind of directive speech act, to suggest a course of action. A method for automatically recognizing such imperat…

Multi-Channel Convolutional Neural Network for Twitter Emotion and Sentiment Recognition Open

Jumayel Islam, Robert E. Mercer, Lu Xiao · 2019

Jumayel Islam, Robert E. Mercer, Lu Xiao. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers). 2019.

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