--- title: "Alan Blair · UNSW Sydney — author profile and papers" description: "Alan Blair, UNSW Sydney: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2024), h-index 16 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alan-blair/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alan-blair/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Alan Blair # Alan Blair Alan Blair has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2024, most of them on [Speech act theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Stefano Mezza](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stefano-mezza/), [Wayne Wobcke](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wayne-wobcke/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5033143541) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1039-4766) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75204085) · [**h-index 16**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5033143541) · [79 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5033143541) · [978 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5033143541&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alan-blair/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 5 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alan-blair/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10525](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/106/#star-10525) 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=Alan+Blair) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Alan+Blair) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Alan+Blair) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Alan+Blair) ## Affiliations [🎓**UNSW Sydney** Sydney · Australia 2002–2025 · 54 papersEmployment since 2002*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/unsw-sydney/) · [🎓**The University of Queensland** Brisbane · Australia 1998–2008 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-queensland/) · [🎓**The University of Melbourne** Melbourne · Australia 1999–2004 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-melbourne/) · [🎓**Brandeis University** Waltham · United States 1996–1998 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/brandeis-university/) · [🔬**Data61** Sydney · Australia 2007–2009 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/data61/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 1989–1995 · 1 paperEducation 1989–1994](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**The University of Sydney** Sydney · Australia 1985–1988Education 1985–1988](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-sydney/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 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/) · [Philosophy · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/philosophy/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech act theory · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alan-blair/year/2024/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alan-blair/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Exploiting Dialogue Acts and Context to Identify Argumentative Relations in Online Debates](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mezza-2024-exploiting-dialogue-acts-context-identify/)** *(2024 · 4 citations)* The paper addresses Argumentative Relation Classification, which means deciding whether a debate contribution supports or attacks the earlier contribution it replies to. 2. **[A Multi-Dimensional, Cross-Domain and Hierarchy-Aware Neural Architecture for ISO-Standard Dialogue Act Tagging](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mezza-2022-multi-dimensional-cross-domain-hierarchy/)** *(2022 · 1 citation)* ISO 24617-2 is a domain-independent, hierarchical and multi-dimensional standard for Dialogue Act tagging. Practitioners rarely adopt it, mainly because no training corpus of adequate size is annotated with it. The authors address this from two directions. ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Stefano Mezza](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stefano-mezza/) ×2 - [Wayne Wobcke](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wayne-wobcke/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Workshop on Argument Mining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/argmining/): [Workshop on Argument Mining 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/argmining/2024/) - [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/): [COLING 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2022/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 5 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/alan-blair/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026