Prof. Xia’s research area is computational linguistics, and covers a wide range of NLP tasks including morphological analysis, part-of-speech tagging, grammar extraction and grammar generation, treebank development, machine translation, named-entity recognition, and information extraction. Each year, she teaches two courses in the Ling 570-573 series and one seminar in CL. In addition,  along with other CLMS faculty, she organizes monthly graduation planning meetings and supervises CLMS students for their final projects and theses.