--- title: "Gongbo Zhang · Columbia University — author profile and papers" description: "Gongbo Zhang, Columbia University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2015–2026), h-index 12 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gongbo-zhang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gongbo-zhang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Gongbo Zhang # Gongbo Zhang Gongbo Zhang has 2 papers in our library, in 2015–2026, most of them on [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Jacob Eisenstein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jacob-eisenstein/), [Yangfeng Ji](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yangfeng-ji/), [Yifan Peng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-peng/). 2 papers in our library · 2015–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5005232556) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0077-3615) · [**h-index 12**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5005232556) · [30 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5005232556) · [2,495 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5005232556&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gongbo-zhang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 14 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gongbo-zhang/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9142](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/92/#star-9142) 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=Gongbo+Zhang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Gongbo+Zhang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Gongbo+Zhang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Gongbo+Zhang) ## Affiliations [🎓**Columbia University** New York · United States 2024–2026 · 15 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) · [🎓**Georgia State University** Atlanta · United States 2000–2009 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/georgia-state-university/) · [🎓**University of Delaware** Newark · United States 2017–2022 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-delaware/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Discourse analysis · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gongbo-zhang/year/2026/) ### 2010s [**2015** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gongbo-zhang/year/2015/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Closing the Gap: Domain Adaptation from Explicit to Implicit Discourse Relations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ji-2015-closing-gap-domain-adaptation-explicit/)** *(2015 · 46 citations)* Implicit discourse relations, which lack a connective such as "however", are costly to annotate. Explicitly signaled relations, by contrast, can be labeled automatically from their connectives. However, classifiers trained on such explicit data transfer poorly to implicit relations. Ji, Zhang and Eisenstein treat… 2. **[Improving Retrieval-Augmented Generation without Taxonomy-based Error Categorization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-improving-retrieval-augmented-generation-without/)** *(2026)* Agentic RAG systems often use a critic model to label what went wrong with an answer, using an error taxonomy, and then choose corrective steps. ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Jacob Eisenstein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jacob-eisenstein/) - [Yangfeng Ji](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yangfeng-ji/) - [Yifan Peng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-peng/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2015](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2015/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 14 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [8 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gongbo-zhang/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026