Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac

Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac is a Lecturer in Language Sciences at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, affiliated with the Cognition, Languages, Ergonomics (CLLE) laboratory and the Language & Cognitive Processes team. She teaches corpus linguistics and Natural Language Processing, focusing on quantitative corpus methods and digital tools for linguistic research.

• Teaching: Corpus linguistics, NLP, data collection methodologies
• Research Themes: Discourse organization, textual cohesion, online discussion forums (health/Wikipedia), text typologies

Her research combines corpus analysis with computational linguistics, particularly examining:

• Discourse structuring mechanisms
• Referential continuity in student writing
• Epistemic regimes in collaborative platforms like Wikipedia
• Textual cohesion markers in educational contexts
• Quantitative methods for analyzing web 2.0 corpora
• Annotation frameworks for multi-scale discourse

Recent publications include studies on Wikipedia talk pages and the E-CALM student writing corpus. She contributes to projects like ANNODIS and WikiDisc, focusing on annotated resources for discourse analysis.

As a supervisor, she advises PhD and Master's students in projects involving:

• Reference chain modeling
• Discourse annotation tools
• Linguistic approaches to health forums
• Computational analysis of under-specified names