--- title: "Jifan Chen — author profile and papers · Discourse analysis" description: "Jifan Chen, The University of Texas at Austin: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2016–2024), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jifan-chen/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jifan-chen/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Jifan Chen # Jifan Chen Jifan Chen has 3 papers in our library, in 2016–2024, 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 [Greg Durrett](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/greg-durrett/), [Eunsol Choi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eunsol-choi/), [Grace Kim](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/grace-kim/). 3 papers in our library · 2016–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5103130791) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6814-0999) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5103130791) · [24 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5103130791) · [508 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5103130791&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jifan-chen/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 159 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jifan-chen/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3999](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/40/#star-3999) 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=Jifan+Chen) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Jifan+Chen) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Jifan+Chen) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Jifan+Chen) ## Affiliations [🎓**The University of Texas at Austin** Austin · United States 2019–2024 · 13 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-texas-at-austin/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2024 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2021–2025 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) · [🎓**Fudan University** Shanghai · China 2016–2019 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/fudan-university/) 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. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [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/) · [Sociology and Political Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/sociology-and-political-science/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Discourse analysis · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper Complex Claim Verification with Evidence Retrieved in the Wild](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2024-complex-claim-verification-evidence-retrieved/) ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper Understanding Dataset Design Choices for Multi-hop Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2019-understanding-dataset-design-choices-multi/) · [**2016** 1 paper Implicit Discourse Relation Detection via a Deep Architecture with Gated Relevance Network](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2016-implicit-discourse-relation-detection-deep/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Understanding Dataset Design Choices for Multi-hop Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2019-understanding-dataset-design-choices-multi/)** *(2019 · 146 citations)* Chen and Durrett ask whether WikiHop and HotpotQA, two datasets built to test multi-hop reading comprehension, actually force models to combine evidence across sentences. 2. **[Implicit Discourse Relation Detection via a Deep Architecture with Gated Relevance Network](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2016-implicit-discourse-relation-detection-deep/)** *(2016 · 115 citations)* The paper addresses implicit discourse relation recognition: deciding how two text segments relate logically (e.g., Contingency vs. 3. **[Complex Claim Verification with Evidence Retrieved in the Wild](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2024-complex-claim-verification-evidence-retrieved/)** *(2024 · 84 citations)* Automated fact-checking systems are usually tested under unrealistic retrieval conditions. Some get no evidence at all, some get evidence curated by human fact-checkers, and some search the open web, where they can pick up later articles that already debunk the claim. Chen et al. build what they describe as the first… ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Greg Durrett](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/greg-durrett/) ×2 - [Eunsol Choi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eunsol-choi/) - [Grace Kim](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/grace-kim/) - [Pengfei Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pengfei-liu/) - [Qi Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qi-zhang/) - [Xipeng Qiu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xipeng-qiu/) - [Xuanjing Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuanjing-huang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/) ×2: [NAACL 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2024/), [NAACL 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2019/) - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2016/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 159 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [41 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jifan-chen/cited-by/). 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