--- title: "Alice Lai — author profile and papers · Discourse analysis" description: "Alice Lai, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2017–2018), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alice-lai/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alice-lai/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Alice Lai # Alice Lai Alice Lai has 2 papers in our library, in 2017–2018, most of them on [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Joel Tetreault](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joel-tetreault/), [Julia Hockenmaier](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julia-hockenmaier/), [Yonatan Bisk](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yonatan-bisk/). 2 papers in our library · 2017–2018 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5044911994) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5044911994) · [7 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5044911994) · [2,897 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5044911994&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alice-lai/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 64 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alice-lai/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6581](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/66/#star-6581) 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=Alice+Lai) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Alice+Lai) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Alice+Lai) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Alice+Lai) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2014–2018 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Discourse analysis · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alice-lai/year/2018/) · [**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alice-lai/year/2017/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Discourse Coherence in the Wild: A Dataset, Evaluation and Methods](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lai-2018-discourse-coherence-wild-dataset-evaluation/)** *(2018 · 79 citations)* Coherence models have mostly been tested on polished, professionally edited text such as newswire, using artificial tasks like telling an original document from a shuffled version of its sentences. 2. **[Natural Language Inference from Multiple Premises](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lai-2017-natural-language-inference-multiple-premises/)** *(2017 · 39 citations)* Most entailment benchmarks pair a hypothesis with a single premise. This paper asks what changes when several independent descriptions of one scene must be combined, as with multiple witness reports or posts about the same event. The authors introduce the Multiple Premise Entailment (MPE) task and dataset. Each item… ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Joel Tetreault](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joel-tetreault/) - [Julia Hockenmaier](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julia-hockenmaier/) - [Yonatan Bisk](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yonatan-bisk/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ijcnlp/): [IJCNLP 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ijcnlp/2017/) - [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/): [SIGDIAL 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2018/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 64 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [20 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alice-lai/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026