--- title: "Wei Ai — author profile and papers · Machine translation" description: "Wei Ai, University of Maryland, College Park: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 7 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-ai/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-ai/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Wei Ai # Wei Ai Wei Ai has 3 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/); often with [Franck Dernoncourt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/franck-dernoncourt/), [Gang Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gang-wu/), [Ge Gao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ge-gao/). 3 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5062903694) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6271-9430) · [**h-index 7**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5062903694) · [26 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5062903694) · [187 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5062903694&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-ai/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 3 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-ai/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10513](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/106/#star-10513) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Wei+Ai) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Wei+Ai) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Wei+Ai) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Wei+Ai) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Maryland, College Park** College Park · United States 2022–2026 · 13 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-college-park/) · [🎓**Central South University of Forestry and Technology** Changsha · China 2023–2024 · 6 papers](https://ror.org/02czw2k81) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 9 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Software · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/software/) · [Communication · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/communication/) · [Human-Computer Interaction · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/human-computer-interaction/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-ai/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Skill Discovery for Software Scripting Automation via Offline Simulations with LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2026-skill-discovery-software-scripting-automation/)** *(2026 · 3 citations)* The paper addresses how to make software scripting accessible to users who lack programming skills or knowledge of an application's API. 2. **[The Hidden Language of Harm: Examining the Role of Emojis in Harmful Online Communication and Content Moderation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2026-hidden-language-harm-examining-role/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Most work on offensive-language detection focuses on words and largely ignores emojis. Emojis are seldom offensive alone, but they can carry harm through shape-based symbolism, sarcasm, or misuse in context. The authors study this using a random sample of U.S.-geolocated tweets from 2019. They first filtered the… 3. **[VietMix: A Naturally-Occurring Parallel Corpus and Augmentation Framework for Vietnamese-English Code-Mixed Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tran-2026-vietmix-naturally-occurring-parallel-corpus/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Machine translation systems handle code-mixed text poorly, especially when Vietnamese and English blend within one sentence on social media. ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Franck Dernoncourt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/franck-dernoncourt/) - [Gang Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gang-wu/) - [Ge Gao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ge-gao/) - [Hieu Tran](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hieu-tran/) - [Huy Nghiem](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huy-nghiem/) - [Marine Carpuat](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marine-carpuat/) - [Tianyi Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianyi-zhou/) - [Tong Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tong-yu/) - [Xiang Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-chen/) - [Yimin Xiao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yimin-xiao/) - [Yuhang Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuhang-zhou/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) - [Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlpcss/): [Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlpcss/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 3 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-ai/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026